23O THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
A. Cynoglossum sylvaticum [now C. montanum ] “in Hagger lane, Clay 
street, and about Chingford in Henault forest, plentifully.” 
Alisma damasonium [now Damasonium alisma ] “ in ponds on the 
Forest about Walthamstow & Wanstead.” 
Delphinium consolida [now D. ajacis ] ” Buryfield. in the common 
field near Walthamstow Church.” 
Dipsacus pilosus. “ in a lane on the left beyond Ilford, near Waltham 
Abby ; near Stansted Rivers” (sic.) (presumably a slip for Stanford 
Rivers.) 
A. Equisetum limosum. " In ditches, bogs, sides of ponds &c. very 
common. It flowers in May June.” 
Equisetum palustve. “ probably Warner meant Equisetum limosum 
which is very common in gravelpits & moist ditches. Equisetum 
palustve grows in Leyton Marsh near the roadside not far from the 
brook near the Marsh gate—in the marsh below Westham.” 
Equisetum sylvaticum. “ E. sylvaticum has been now found by B.M.F. 
on the forest near Highbeech. probably this” [i.e., Warner's record 
of this species] “ means Equisetum fluviatile which grows on the 
Forest near Snaresbrook & between the Epping road & Honey 
Lane Green & in a wood near Chigwell—between the Red bridge & 
Moss foot green—in a field between Sewardstone green and 
Leppet hill.” 
A. Sisymbrium sylvestre [now Radicula sylvestvis]. "on the bank of the 
Rhodon near Woodford bridge plentifully—very uncommon.” 
A. Aspidium thelypteris [now Lastrea Thelypteris ]. “in a woody bog in a 
field near Epping probably forming part of Wintry Wood.” 
Polypodium aculeatum [now Polystichum angular e\. “ Found in a 
hedge the edge of the Forest on the Hawk & in a lane near Waltham¬ 
stow Church, in a lane between Barking & a house called Jenkins 
in great plenty.” 
A. Aspidium oreopteris [now Lastrea montan a]. “ Found on the bank 
of a ditch the S. side of Snaresbrook pond with Osmunda spicant ” 
[ = Blechnum spicant ] “wild near Highbeech B.M.F. bog opposite 
Kings Oak. near Foxhatch & near Warley Common.” 
A. Aspidium spinulosum [now Lastrea spinulosa ]. “ In Longdown Wood 
near Hale J£nd, & on the Forest.” 
A. Aspidium lobatum [now Polystichum aculeatum]. “ in moist shady 
hedges, particularly in a lane leading from Hale End to Chapel 
End Walthamstow.” 
Osmunda regalis. “ one plant on the Lower Forest beyond Epping 
1840, near to Turnpike Rood street, pointed out to me by Double¬ 
day.” This record is of considerable interest, not only botanically, 
it being the latest record of the Royal Fern as occurring in Epping 
Forest until my wife's discovery of a small plant near Monk Wood 
in 1919, 16 but also because it suggests that Edward Forster (in 1840 
a man of 75 years of age) in his old age took friendly botanical 
rambles with Doubleday. This record of Osmunda is doubt¬ 
less the one included by Gibson in his Flora of Essex 1862, in 
16. Essex Naturalist, xix., p. 174. 
