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Trifoliumjillforme, L. " Dry pastures and road-sides," freqiieiit, 

 Hooker and Arnott. The same statement is made as regards T. 

 minor. In this neighbourhood, however, it would cost a person some 

 time to meet with a specimen of the former, while he might very 

 easily find abundance of the latter. 



Orohus tuberosus, L., with linear leaflets, occurs in woods about 

 Totham. The authors of the ' Flora' appear to consider this variety 

 as a rare one, by indicating several localities in which it may be 

 found, while Smith and Babington do not think it worthy of so much 

 notice. 



Pf/rus Aucuparia, Gsertn., abounds in Porl's Wood, Messing, 

 Essex, and though well known as growing therein for the last 

 I'orty or fifty years, yet there does not appear to be any record of its 

 having ever been introduced by planting. It thrives best in the light, 

 gravelly, and sandy parts of the wood, but being regularly cut down 

 for underwood, its aspect is that of a mere shrub. Gardens in the 

 neighbourhood are indebted to Porl's Wood for young plants of the 

 mountain ash. 



Epilohium roseian, Schreb., flourishes in a spot of damp alluvial 

 ground, used for gardening purposes, at Kelvedon. 



liibes nigrum, L. Close by the water of an ancient moat at Layer 

 Marney are three or four bushes of Ribes nigrum, which, if not really 

 wild, must have sprimg up from seeds adventitiously deposited there, 

 as the banks which inclose the moat are very steep, and covered with 

 shrubby underwood to the water's edge. In the locality near the 

 Hoppet Bridge, at Braintree, recorded by Ray, R. nigrum will 

 now be sought in vain. I have also been unsuccessful in endeavour- 

 ing to discover this shrub on the banks of the Blackwater, near Pat- 

 tiswick, where it is stated to grow by Mr, J. M. Gibson (Phytol. i. 

 835). 



Peiroselintim segetum, Koch. On hedge-banks at Salcot and at 

 Munden, and between Maldon and Munden, not uncommon on Lon- 

 don clay ? but liable to escape notice from its beginning to flower 

 just before harvest, at which period it is cut down with other weeds, 

 when the hedges and sides of the fields are trimmed. In the ' Bota- 

 nist's Guide ' there are five other localities for P. segelum in Essex. 



Dipsacus pilosus, L., though long recorded in the ' Botanist's 

 Guide' as an Essex plant, and still to be found, ittier aliis, abundantly 

 about Coggeshall, is not referred to the county in the ' British Flora,' 

 though Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, and Surrey are mentioned in con- 



