HISTORY OF ESSKX BOTANY. 183 



As they are few and the book is rare I will give them at 

 length, as they occur. 



p. 20. " Gramcn minimum Aiiglo-Britanicum. Arenoso solo versus 

 Oceanum aliquot miliaribus a Lio, proJDe Thamesis ostia oritur, folia admodum 

 exilia, plura simul congesta, uncism & sesquiunciam longa : cauliculi ipsis 

 foliolis paulo longiores, in quibus arctiores eminentiae, raras spicas parvulas 

 referentes." 



This is identified by Sir J. E. Smith (English Floya (1824), 

 vol. i., p. 85) with his Knappia agrostidea i.e. Mibova verua Beauv. ; 

 but Gibson remarks on this identification " neither old herbaria, 

 nor diligent search in the locality confirm this. As Agrostis 

 puimla Light, is abundant there, it may have been the plant 

 originally intended." To Agrostis piimila L., classed in the 

 London Catalogue (gth edition) as a variety of A. vulgaris With., 

 Nyman''° adds the comment, " status morbosus, spiculis uredine 

 corruptis." " Lio," it may be explained, stands for Leigh. 



p. 21. " Granwn exile vicinoviun maris aggenmi, numerosa gracillimorum 

 latiusculorum uncialium foliorum sobole. Sex miliaribus Anglo-Britannicis a Lio, 

 non procul ab aedibus D. Wedston oritur, digitales, unciales & sesquiunciales 

 emittens cauliculos, congestis Salicis maritimae minoris catulis confertos, 

 coryllis stipatim inter numerosa folia praeditos. Radix exiqua capillaris. 

 Hsec supradicta exigua & tenuia maritima gramina oviaria depascitur." In 

 the margin How adds " Gr. exile vidmrum mans aggerum Park. pag. 1278. sine 

 Ic. Th. Bot. i Lob. M.S. Among his names he glories that it hath not been 

 remembered by any Author before.' 



Parkinson's description of this grass in the Theatruni, where 

 he gives no figure, is as follows : — 



" 6. Gramen exile vieinoriun maris aggerum. A small grasse of the Sea 

 downes. The small Sea grasse shooteth forth divers short stalkes of two 

 inches long, full of small long leaves like haires, set close together, and among 

 them at the toppes small heads, like the catkins of the dwarfe Willow, the 

 root is small and threddy." 



These descriptions do not enable us to identify the plant. 

 It might be Festuca ovina L., thtj Gramen capillacemn locustelis 

 pinnatis non aristatis of Ray's Historia Plantarum, vol. ii., p. 1288. 

 (1688) ; but this is merely a conjecture. 



pp. 82-3. Brassica vulgaris arborescens Flandrica .... Maris incote 

 Essexias ea vescuntur ad lubricand : alvum exjusculo pingui, Provenit etiam 

 toto illo tractu littoreo a Dovero, Ryam, & inde ad Vectem insulam." [Brassica 

 oleracea L.] 



p. 90. " Limonium medium Anglicum Herbidae Colchestriensis amnis 

 crepidines, pelagi iBstu quandoque inundari solitae, hoc Limonio uberi pro- 

 ventu gliscunt." [_Statice limonium L. ? Vide supra, p. 181]. 



p. 96. " Campanula carulea supiiia. Ex insula (Isle of Fowle) Anglo- 

 Britan. vernaculo, id est. Avium, vocat : Lincoln : praefecturae." 

 38 Conspectus Florce Europcece p. 8oi. 



