170 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
LATHYRUS TUBEROSUS IN. BRITAIN. 
By Miuuer Cuaristy, F.L.S. 
Tuts plant is of special interest to Essex botanists like myself. 
Not only was it first recorded in Britain from this county, but, 
even now, two of its very few recorded British localities are in 
Es: 
recently in the adjacent county of Suffolk. I have been led, 
therefore, to devote some time to an examination of its status 
year 1860, by Thomas Corder, F.L.S. (died 1874), of Kempston, 
in Bedfordshire 
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year (1859), not by Thomas Corder, but by his brother, Octavius 
i i fiel 
Hall, and died, aged 81, on 5th January 1910, at Brundall, near 
Norwich. The discovery was, however, recorded by Thomas Corder, 
“The plant grows abundantly [he says {] in the hedgerows, 
and in large quantities on the borders of cultivated fields, and 
among corn. lt appears extended more or less over the parish 
and in the adjoining one of Willingale Spain—an extent of about 
three miles. i i i 
introduced plant. ing on their 
lands for fifty years, and one stated he had known it for sixty 
ears. 
able is that so beautiful a plant should not have been observed 
before. . . . It is very conspicuous as you pass along the road.” 
t : 
more or less unsatisfactory evidence, t at various other 
localities in England (including, even, one other in Essex). But 
* Flora of Essex, p. 88 (1862). 
+ Zoologist, p. 7165 (1860); see also Gardeners’ Chronicle, 25 August 1860, 
p- . 
} Journal of Linnean Society, v. pp. 187-188 (1861). 
