236 EDUCATION IN RURAL SCHOOLS. 



Canvey Island. ^^ More probably it was P. aviculare var. littorale 

 (Link), which is recorded from Essex by Syme.^^ 



p 106. "Rubusmonis. The Mulberry Bramble, so call 'd by the Countrey 

 people at Sutton in Essex." 



This has been shown,s-t thanks to a specimen in Samuel 

 Dale's herbarium, to be Rnbus thyvsoidens Bell. 



p. iig. •' Tragopof^on minus angiisti/ollum G. 735. 3. 2 mile on this side 

 Epping in the forest." [Tnigopogon pratense L. var. minus (Mill.)] 



p. 120. '' Trifolius Lapatum C.B. capile albidiori minusquc aspeyo 

 two miles beyond Tilbury towards Lee in Essex." 



This species is placed in the Indiculns plantavum duhiavnm of the 

 Dillenian Synopsis (1724), and I am not more certain as to the 

 correctness of referring it to Trifolmin scabvnm L. than was Gibson 

 {Flora of Essex, -p. 76); but, considering that 7". scabrum occurs 

 not far off, it is difficult to suggest any other identification. 



[To be continued.) 



EDUCATION IN RURAL SCHOOLS. 



By Prof. R. MELDOLA, F.R.S , &c. 



It is a matter of congratulation that the new Board of 

 Education has at the outset of its existence officially 

 recognized the requirements of country children in the way of 

 education. All who have interested themselves in the great 

 questions connected with modern education have long since 

 realized that the curricula of town schools were not at all 

 adequate for the training in rural districts of children, whose 

 future career might be more or less dependent on agricultural 

 pursuits. It will be remembered that last summer a forcible 

 speech on this subject was delivered by Sir John Gorst at the 

 Countess of Warwick's School at Bigods, near Dunmow. I may 

 add that the necessity for differentiating between town and 

 country education has long been recognized by Lady Warwick 

 as well as by the writer of this note. The school at Bigods, due 

 to the munificence and educational foresight of my distinguished 



52 Gibson's Flora of Essex. 



53 English llotany, ed. iii., vol. viii., p. 68. 



54 H. N. Ridley, in Journal 0/ Botany, 1885, p. 370. 



