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straggler from cultivation, though the plant has occupied its present 

 position for many years. 



I aleriana officinalis, L., as described in the last edition of Babing- 

 ton's Manual, is not found about Kelvedou ; the form of the species 

 growing there, as well as in other parts of the county of Essex, as far 

 as 1 have seen, agreeing with the description in that work of Valeri- 

 ana sanibucifolia {'^ Mikan.'") Of a certainty the terminal leaflet 

 appears larger than the others. 



Inula criUnnoides, L. Shore at Mersea Island, near Salcot Creek, 

 abundantly. 



Jasione montana, L., does not grow on Tiptree Heath, nor upon the 

 description of gravel abundant there, as well as in other parts of the 

 county. I have only met with this plant in a pit of tine red gravel 

 and sand at Braxted, near Kelvedon, where it is accompanied by 

 Filago apiculata, G. E. S. 



Galeopsis ochroleuca. Lam. Pretty abundant in two or three light, 

 gravelly, corn-fields at Berechurch. G. ochroleuca grows up along 

 with the wheat, and is in perfection about the time of harvest when 

 the reaping takes place ; so that it is diflicult to obtain good speci- 

 mens of it without trespassing and doing damage. For a similar rea- 

 son the plant is likely to escape detection, inasmuch as prowling 

 botanists are not welcome visitors in standing crops of corn or amongst 

 luxuriant clover. A friend who kindly accompanied me, for the purpose 

 of gathering specimens for the Botanical Society, was fully impressed 

 with the idea that the same plant used to grow in gravelly corn-fields 

 on a farm at Bures, in Essex. I have not as yet had any opportu- 

 nity of verifying the correctness of my friend's statement, but hope 

 some day to be able to do so ; the more so, as the locality itself is not 

 an unlikely one, and also because it is not easy to imagine the de- 

 scription of plant which has been confounded with G. ochroleuca, if 

 a mistake has been made by ray informant. 



CynogloHsiwi sylvaticum, Hajnke. From lack of sufficient know- 

 ledge I have stated, in a previous number of the ' Phytologist,' that 

 this plant is found in many parts of East Essex; but the truth is, that 

 1 mistook the green and scentless variety of C. officinale for the pre- 

 sent plant. However, C. sylvaticura still grows pretty abundantly in 

 one situation at Great Braxted, where it was most probably noticed 

 by Ray ; and it may be also seen occasionally on one or two other 

 banks in the same parish. Jn the latter situations it is exposed to the 

 road ; and the young plants are soon devoured by some of the loose 

 quadrupeds which are turned out by gipsies and other vagrants to 



