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great plenty, also about Chelsey. After the great Fire in 

 London, in the Years 1667, 1668, it came up abundantly 

 among the Rubbish in the Euines. I have also observed 

 it elsewhere, as about the House of my honoured Friend, 

 Edward Bullock, Esq. at Faulkbourn in Essex ; also on 

 the Walls of Berwick upon Tweed [where it still grows]. 



"This hath small yellow Flowers, and cods [pods] 

 longer by much than those of the common Erysimum, 

 not clapping close to the Stalk, as in that, but standing 

 out from it; it's also a much lesser and lower Plant." 

 [This plant is still called London Rocket; it is the 

 Sisymbrium Irio of text-books.] 



Our second example is Ray's description of Jacob's 

 Ladder: — "Valeriana Grseca, Ger., Park. [Gerard, 

 Parkinson]. Grseca quorundam, colore cseruleo & albo, 

 J.B. [John Bauhin], cserulea, C.B. [Caspar Bauhin], 

 Greek Valerian, called by the vulgar. Ladder to Heaven, 

 and Jacob's Ladder [Polemonium cseruleum]. Found 

 by Dr. Lister in Carleton-beck, in the falling of it into 

 the river Air ; but more plentifully both with a blue 

 flower and a white about Malham-Cove, a place so 

 remarkable, that it is esteemed one of the Wonders of 

 Craven. It grows there in the Wood on the left hand 

 of the Water, as you go to the Cove from Malham plenti- 

 fully ; and also at Cordil [Gordale] or the Whern, a 

 remarkable cove, where comes out a great stream of 

 water, near the said Malham. 



" Foliis longis pinnatis Vicise in modum, floribus 

 amplis deorsum nutantibus, vasculis in terna loculamenta 

 divisis ab aliis hujus generis difFert [the "genus" is 

 Ray's very miscellaneous Pentapetalse vasculiferae]. " 



Bits of curious information abound in the Syno2ysis. 

 Ray has remarked the occurrence of sea-plantain in 

 inland parts of Cornwall and the bishopric of Durham ; 



