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richard warner’s 
“ PLANTS WOODFORDIHNSES.” 
timate personal acquaintance with, the neighbourhood of 
Walthamstow, rather than of Woodford or other adjacent dis¬ 
tricts, notwithstanding the nominal title of the book. Most 
of his localities are thereabouts. We have exact descriptions, 
and the names of individual occupiers given, as, for example, 
“ Mr. Dixon’s wall, Hoe Street,” “ in Hoe Street by Mr. Agar’s 
palings,” “ y e wall belong 8 to Tony Hall Shernhall Str.,” and so 
on: whilst such localities as “ the lane by our garden,” “ the 
Common-field behind our field, i.e. the Church-common field ” 
(elsewhere repeatedly localised as being at Walthamstow), 
” in our southern field Hoe Street,” “ our field, Hoe Street,” 
“ our field in Hoe-street found 1788,” and “ in the 4th field from 
our house in Wood Street,” serve still further to locate with exacti¬ 
tude the place of residence of the writer. 
Further evidence is afforded by the fact that on one of the 
interleaved sheets, immediately preceding the printed Preface, 
the manuscript-writer has given a special 
“ List of Plants growing in Higham Hill Common field : 
Trifolium arvense. 
,, striatum 
,, agrarium [T. procumbens] 1 
Medicago arabica. 
Scabiosa arvensis [Knautia arvensisj 
Jasione montana 
Centaurea cyanus 
Lathyrus nissolia 
Ervum hirsutum [Vicia hirsuta] 
Ornithopus perpusillus 
Caucalis arvensis [Torilis arvensis]. 
Hyoseris minima (sic.) [Myosurus minimus] 
Papaver argemone 
Scandix pecten-veneris 
Spergula arvensis 
Agrostemma githago [Lychnis githago] 
Scleranthus annuus 
Papaver dubium ” 
which indicates his special knowledge of, and interest in, that 
particular locality, again a Walthamstow one. 
1 Names in square brackets give the present day nomenclature, ns adopted by the British 
Museum authorities. 
