LONDON AND SUBURBS. 6l 



[T. I. p. 444] it stood like the thickest rye-field, but was 

 not taller than about 1 foot high. It seemed as if this 

 grass would thrive best on the south side of the wall. 

 In many places the sides of the walls were covered over 

 either with Quickroot, 105 [Triticum repens] or Renlosta 

 (85) or Scandix, 241, seminibus hispidis [5. Anthriscus, now 

 Anthriscus Vulgaris] Beaked Parsley, each of which in its 

 place and by itself made the thickest growth that can be, 

 and certainly seemed to be very profitable and serviceable 

 for sowing on the sides of earth-walls, to fasten the loose 

 mould by. It seemed as if the Quickroot would thrive 

 better on the north side of the walls. These walls con- 

 sisted of the brick-colored clay found everywhere around 

 London, which has frequently been mentioned before. 



The 3rd of June, 1748. 



In the afternoon I was at the house of Dr. Cromwell 

 Mortimer, Secretary of the Royal Society in London, 

 where I then made the acquaintance of Mr. Baker, who 

 had written the beautiful book on Polyps, in which he re- 

 counts the many experiments he had made with them. 

 [Omit a silly note on a child's skull found in a chalkpit.] 



[T. I. p. 445.] Luteola, 439. [Reseda Luteola, L.J 

 Dyers Weed, Weld, grew everywhere outside London on 

 the earth-walls. That it can be contented with the 

 driest earth I noticed from this, that it grew in fissures in 

 the tops of the walls in the greatest heat of the sun 

 where all other plants, even Poa Murorum [P. Compressa, 

 L.~\ were entirety withered up and killed by the great 

 heat ; but this stood there green and in flower, more 

 than 18 inches high. The cattle always left it uneaten. 



The 6th June, 1748. 



List of births and deaths, &c, in several places. In 

 a printed description of London, in Folio, there is a list 



