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found in the county and which are likely to occur in it, and of 

 those supposed to be lost. The sixth (not a table) is an account 

 of some of the more prominent Essex botanists, — Ray, Dale, 

 Warner, and E. Forster," (Preface, p. xi.) 



Between these tables (for the first is prefixed, not appended) the 

 Orders, genera, and species of the Essex plants are named and 

 localized. The arrangement is the same as usual, viz. that which 

 is by courtesy called the natural system; and this occupies the 

 greater part of the book, viz. 407 pages. The Appendix contains 

 the earliest and latest notices of the rare and of the questionable 

 Essex species ; also the tables of comparative rarity, frequency, 

 etc., as before quoted. 



A quotation, or occasionally two, from each of these prominent 

 divisions will put the reader in possession of the merits of the 

 ' Flora of Essex.' 



The following species appear only in one of the eight districts 

 into which Essex is divided, (see table, p. xxviii. etc.) : — Thalictrum 

 sax utile, Ranunculus Drouetii, R.floribundus, R.peltatus,R. Lingua, 

 Fumaria micrantha, F. parviflora, F. Vaillantii, Lavatera arborea, 

 Viola palustris, Dianthus plumarius, D. deltoides. In two dis- 

 tricts grow Ranunculus confusus, R. fluitans, Aconitum Napellus, 

 Papaver Lecoqii, P. somniferum, Isatis tinctoria, Iberis amara, etc. 

 Three districts are ornamented with the flowers of Ranunculus 

 heterophyllus, R. trichophyllus, Papaver hybridum, Turritis gla- 

 bra, etc. 



Cardamine sylvatica grows in four districts " cum multis aliis 

 qvias nunc prsescribere longum est," as they teach and learn at 

 Eton, and which in plain English meaAs would be very tedious 

 and useless to the reader and tiresome to the writer. 



The preceding extract from this, the first table, is offered as an 

 example of the pains taken to exhibit the distribution of the rarer 

 species, and also to show that the results are not so great as the 

 labour spent in trying to educe them. The novelties once all com- 

 prehended under the common name Ranunculus aguatilis are pro- 

 bably found or might be observed in more than in one, two, or 

 three districts. The table is an effort to define the relations of 

 species to particular soils and situations, which subsequent in- 

 vestigations will possibly much enlarge. The author's own ex- 

 perience will attest the justice of this observation. 



Another quotation from the same table will set in a still clearer 



