348 THE .TOUIINAL OF BOTANV 



found by Tilbury Fort, Essex, 'Anno 1716. The figure of Afriplex 

 syloestris vuh/atior sinuata major Park, answers well to this plant. 

 [This ticket is by Dale : the locality for this nondescript does not 

 appear among his contributions to R. Syn. 3.] 



RuMEX MARITIMUS L. LapatJiiim folio acuta flore aureo 

 R. S. 3. 142. Kingsbury's Mere, Cornard. 21 Aug. 1751, 



R. CON&LOMEEATUS Murray. Lapathum acutinn. R. S. 3. 142. 



R. SANGUINEUS L. var. vikidis Sibth. An. 6. Lapathum viride. 

 R. S. 3. 141. In the grove by Ballingdon Brick-kiln. 6 July, 

 1744. 



R. PUi/CHEE L. L. pulclirum Bononieiise sinuatiim R. S. 3. 142. 

 July 1744. 



R. OBTUSiFOLius L. Lapathum vidrjare folio olticso R. S. 3. 

 141. 9 July, 1744. 



R. cmspus L. Lapathum folio acuta crispo R. S. 3. 141. 

 Goldingham Hall Lays, 13 July, 1744. 



R. AcETOSA L. Lapathum acetosicm vulgare R. S. 3. 143. 

 Ballingdon hills. 16 May, 1746. 



Polygonum Bistorta L. Bistorta major R. S. 3. 147. *Sud- 

 bury. 18 May, 1747. 



P. AMPiiiBiUM L. An. R. S. 145. Persicaria Salicis folio 

 perennis ? *Cornard Mere. 20 July, 1739. [This seems correctly 

 placed.] 



P. LAPATHIFOLIUM L. 6. Fersicaria mitis major foliis pallidi- 

 orihus D. Bobarti. R. S. 3. 145. Crown dunghill [Sudbury ?] Aug. 

 1755. 



[This is the species first observed by Bobart at Headington. 

 R. Syn. 2. 58. (1696).] 



P. MACULATUM Trimen & Dyer. 7. Persicaria foliis salicis alha 

 mdfiaris R. S. 3. *145. Chilton Hall [Suff.], 11 July, 1738. [This 

 striking plant with strict habit, stem often spotted, leaves sessile, 

 ascending and very silvery below, like those of Salix alba L., scattered 

 thyrsi of flowers and perianth longer than the fruit, is apparentlv the 

 Persicaria argentea of Petiver Hort. Brit. 3. 9 and also the Persi- 

 caria maculosa incana, his preceding form, the Persicaria folio 

 subtus incana of Tournefort, Inst. R. H. 510, recorded as " Passim 

 circa Londinum" in R. Syn. 3. 145. 5, as well as the form recorded 

 from Buddie, Hort. Sice. iv. 20 at R. Syn. iii. 145. 7. It is the 

 P. laxum described by Babington (E. B. Supp. t. 2822) but not the 

 laxum of Reichenbach. 



P. Persicaria L. Persicaria maculosa flore alba R. S. 3. 145. 

 On Lamash Common. 1743. 



Thesium iiumifusum DC. Grogmagogs. 25 Aug. 1721. 



Euphorbia Helioscopia L. Col. John Kingsbury's Grarden at 

 Newhouse, Wormingford. 26 Aug. 1750. 



E. PLATYPiiTLLOS L. I received from Mr. Dale who gathered it 

 in the Great Mr. Raja's Orchard at black Notley, Essex. In the 

 Synopsis Ray Avrites, " It comes up spontaneously here in my own 

 Orchard at JBlack Notley." Another specimen, labelled in Dale's 

 handwriting " Tithymaliis segetum lonyifalius Cat. Cant. App. R. 



