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and size, which they present. The town of Chelmsford is 
situated in the centre of a flat but highly cultivated district, 
and but little interspersed with woods and heaths, which lat- 
ter are annually being decreased in size and number, by the 
levelling hand of human industry. From this scarcity, of 
what may be called oases to the lover of nature, though de- 
serts to the agriculturists, it is, that the Essex Flora partakes 
more of an agrarian character than any other, there being so 
few stations suited for the growth of alpine plants. 
There are many plants named in the following catalogue, 
which cannot be said to be rare , although but sparingly dis- 
tributed in the particular locality of Chelmsford. But care 
has been taken that mention should be made of such as may 
serve to elucidate the harmony of nature in the geographical 
distribution of the vegetable kingdom. 
The genus Veronica may be first mentioned, of which two 
of the less common species have been found near Chelmsford. 
Veronica cutellata, which I formerly gathered in one spot 
on the banks of the Chelmer has been for the last two years 
extinct there. 
V. moniana , grows plentifully, close by the original station, 
for the last mentioned species ; flowers of a much paler blue, 
than those of V. Chamaedrys. 
Iris fcetidissima. A small copse, at Writtle, near Chelms- 
ford ; but very sparingly. 
Alopecurus fulvus. Widford, on Chelmer banks. Chelms- 
ford is very barren of the rarer of the British grasses ; but the 
pastures are remarkable for their richness and luxuriance. I 
have only thought this, and the following sufficiently uncom- 
mon to be mentioned here. 
Bromus secalinus. Sandon, near Chelmsford. 
Lolium temulentum. Danbury ; there seems but little dif- 
ference between this noxious species and L. Arvense. 
Asperula oclorata. Wood at Great Leigh s. 
Myosotis co Hina. Hedge-banks at Springfield, near Chelms - 
ford; a delicate little species, flowering quite early in tae 
spring. 
Lysimachia mdgaris. Springfield ; at the same place are 
also found L. Nemorum and L. Nunnnularia. 
Primula elatior. Springfield. The flowers of this species 
were much larger than those of P. veris, and of a bright yel- 
low ; the umbel generally consisting of from six to eio-ht 
flowers. 
