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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 Ruines. 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 Graeca, Ger., Park, [Gerard, 

 Parkinson]. Grseca quorundam, colore cseruleo & albo, 

 J.B. [John Bauhin], caerulea, 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 Pentapetalae vasculiferae]." 



Bits of curious information abound in the Synopsis. 

 Ray has remarked the occurrence of sea-plantain in. 

 inland parts of Cornwall and the bishopric of Durham ; 



