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our Essex coasts from their list of the localities of this plant, although 

 it is recorded in the ' Old Botanist's Guide' as growing at Wallasea 

 Island and the west end of the uiarsh bank at Harwich, and although 

 Mr. Watson, in the ' Cybele Britannica,' has referred the Sueda fru- 

 licosa to Essex. 



Polygonum Convolvulus, L., var. alatum. This variety, which is 

 said by the authors of the ' British Flora' to be of rare occurrence, is 

 not unfrequent about Kelvedon, in hedge-banks on newly-turned 

 gravel. 



Juniperus communis, L. " Woods and heaths, frequent," ' British 

 Flora,' p. 407. This does not convey a correct idea of the habitats of 

 Juniperus communis. Sir J. E. Smith writes more correctly, " On 

 hills and heathy downs, especially where the soil is chalky." " Un- 

 common in the southern provinces of England, except on the chalk 

 hills," Cybele Brit. vol. ii. p. 411. 



Hahenaria hifoUa, Br. " Moist copses, meadows, and marshes, fre- 

 quent," ' British Flora.' 



Habenaria chloranlha, Bab. "Dry pastures and heaths, sometimes 

 in moist places, frequent," ' British Flora.' Our plants do not answer 

 to these localities ; H. bifolia being found but very rarely on Tiptree 

 Heath, and H. chlorantha flourishing in the woods, chiefly where 

 the subsoil is chalky. Mr. Babington's localities for the above two 

 plants are more correct : the bifolia is referred to heathy places and 

 the chlorantha to moist woods and thickets in the ' Manual of British 

 Botany.' 



Ophrys apifera, Huds. A solitary specimen of this plant, with 

 flowers perfectly white, was found in Felix-Hall Park, Kelvedon, last 



July. 



Potamogeton zoslerce/olius, Schum., grows in a ditch running into 

 the Chelma, near Chelmsford. 



Potamogeton crispus, L., vslv. serraium ; P. !■ erratum, Huds. In 

 ditches at Copford, and at Salcot. 



Potamogelon prcelonguft, Wulf. Plentiful in the Chelma, between 

 Chelmsford and Baddow. 



Carex axillaris, Gooden., may be met with in the vicinity of Kel- 

 vedon, on the banks of ditches, in several places, and also in the 

 neighbourhood of Coggeshall, towards Great Tey. 



Gaslridium lendigerum. Gaud. "Places where water has stagnated 

 near the sea, rare. Little Broddon and Great Leighs, Essex," * Bri- 

 tish Flora,' p. 531. Little Broddon should be Little Baddow in the 



