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THE NATURALIST. 



SOME ADDITIONS TO GIBSON'S '' FLORA OF ESSEX. 



Bt James Britten. 



In tlie following list will be found the names of many plants which 

 botanists may generally consider common. But though these may be 

 frequent throughout many counties, they do not appear to be as yet thus 

 accounted in the present one ; as in the " Flora of Essex,'' special localities, 

 and sometimes but few of them, are given for all the species mentioned 

 below. The small district of country between Ingatestone and Stock, and, 

 indeed, the whole of the immediate vicinity of the latter place, appears to 

 have been overlooked by Essex botanists ; and the same may be said of 

 the neighbourhood of the little village of Eunwell, distant about five miles 

 from Stock : and it is in the hope of filling up this gap, that I have drawn 

 up the following, trusting that it may not be uninteresting to some of the 

 readers of ** The Naturalist." 



Ranunculus auricomus. Woods, 

 Buttsbury, and Stock. 



R. hirsutus. Cloverfield, Butts- 

 bury : abundant in cornfields about 

 Stock, with R. arvensis. 



Nuphar lutea. Elm-brook, near 

 Buttsbury Church. 



Chelidoniummajiis. Hedges, Stock. 



Lepidiuni campestre. Sides of fields, 

 &c., Buttsbury. 



Polygala vulgaris. Stock Common. 



Arenaria trinervis. Hedges about 

 Stock, abundant. 



Oxalis Acetosella. White's Wood, 

 Buttsbury ; not at all common in 

 this neighbourhood. 



JEuonymus eiiropceus. Hedges, 

 Buttsbury, &c. 



Medicago maculata. Abundant at 

 the foot of a wall in Stock, near the 

 Church. 



Trifolium prociimbens. Field near 

 Buttsbury Church. 



Lathyrus NissoUa. Hedge betwen 

 Buttsbury and Stock. 



Orobus tuberosus. Bishop's Wood, 

 near Stock. 



Pyrus torminalis. Hedge at Run- 

 well, sparingly. 



P. aucuparia. Bishop's Wood, 

 Stock, abundant. 



Chrysosplenium oppositifolium ; — 

 Adoxa moschatellina. White's Wood, 

 Buttsbury. 



Viburnum Opulus. Hangman's 

 Wood, Buttsbury. 



Bunium flexuosum. Hangman's 

 Wood, &c. 



Asperula odorata. Wood at Stock, 

 and White's Wood ; it appears but 

 sparingly in this neighbourhood. 



Vinca minor. Copse at Stock. 



