l82 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



Dale^s specimen, labelled as in this extract, is in the British 

 Museum Herbarium and is Statice vaviflora Drej. He first 

 recognised it in 1700 and in Kay's Historia Plantarum, vol. iii. 

 (1704), p. 247, it is recorded, for the first time, in the words, 

 " Waltonae vico in Essexia non procul ab Harvico portu prope 

 Molendinum copiosum invenit D. Dale nobisque conununicavit." 

 Thus, though the discrimination of 5. occidentalis would seem to 

 have been the work of Dood\ j^'' that of S. ravifiova is clearly that 

 of his friend and correspondent Dale. 



We have, or have had, four forms of Statice in the county, S. 

 linwninm L., or, as perhaps for clearness we ought to term it S. 

 hehen Drej."; its vavieiy pyrmnidaiis Syme, formerly known as 5. 

 serotina Syme; S. rariflova Drej. ; and S. aiiviciilafolia Vahl., var. 

 occidentalis (Lloyd). These are represented by ten specimens in 

 the British Museum Herbarium : S. limonium by five, viz. (i) 

 Dale's, labelled " About Maldon. An Limonium medium 

 Anglicum Lob. Illustr. go. Park. 1234. Limonium maritimum 

 majus alterum serotinum Narbonense Hort. Reg. Par. Schol. 

 Bot. 6 '' ; (2) Sir John Hill's, from "salt-marshes near South 

 Bamfleet " ; and three of Edward Forster's, from "near 

 Maldon," " St. Osith," and " Purfleet " ; var. pyramidalis Syme, 

 by specimens of Edward Forster's from Maldon and "the field 

 near the Hotel at Purfleet " ; 5. vavifloya by Dale's Walton 

 specimen and one of Forster's from Maldon ; and 5. auyiculcefolia, 

 var. occidentalis by one of Sir John Hill's from " Candy [sic] 

 Island in Essex on the farther side of the Island near the Ale- 

 house." As Gibson appends to Ray's Harwich record of this 

 last-mentioned form the note " Probably now lost " and does 

 not mention Canvey Island, this latter locality must be re- 

 searched. It is also by no means improbable that 5. reticulata 

 L., not yet recorded for the county, may occur. 



In the Illustrationes there are eight or nine Essex records, 

 five of which had been anticipated in Parkinson's Theatrmn, 

 whilst one cannot readily be identified. They are, I believe 



Agrostis pninila L. 



Brassica oleracea L. 



Statice linioniitm L. 



Silene anglica L. 



Mentha puleginvi L. 



Lomaria spicant Desv. 



and Lathyrus sylvestris L. 



36 Saiiuiel Doody (1656-1706), keeper of Chelsea Garden, i6y2-i7o6. Sec Britten and 

 Boulger, Biosrapbical Index of British and Irish Botanists. 



37 See A. Bennett, Joiirn, Bot. 1B94, pp. 365-8. 



