warner’s “ plantae woodfordienses.” 237 
Mentha rubra [now included in the aggregate species gentilis ]. “ by 
the side of the stream from the Oilmills in Walthamstow marsh.” 
Adoxa moschatellina. “ in a wood near Hale End, in the field be¬ 
longing to Hale End house plentifully, near Clay hall Barkingside.” 
Ophrys nidus-avis [now Ncottia nidus-avis']. “ Found again June 
1786 ” (i.e., in the place recorded by T. F. Forster, viz., “ on the 
forest . . , near the Royal Oak, Hale End ”) “ & on the 
Hawk.” 32 
Ranunculus parviflorus. “ near Walthamstow Church & in the Lea 
bridge road near the lane to Leyton Church, in Clay street, near 
the road to Hellyers ferry, between Waltham Abby & Honey lane 
green.” 33 
Jasione moniana. ‘‘in Mark house common field & in a lane leading 
from Temple Mills to Holloway down.” 
Salix ccerulea [now 5 . alba]. “ in hedges & plantations very common.” 
Salix helix [now 5 . purpurea]. “ probably most of these ”[i.e., his 
brother Thomas’s records of this Salix] “ are monolla (?) Borr. 
the true Helix grows in a field called Great Stansted on Gibbon’s 
Bush Farm Epping Long Green.” 
Samolus valerandi. “ In the marshes near the Thames plentifully.” 
Trifolium subterraneum. “ by the roadside between Waltham Abby & 
Warleys 1798 .” 
A. Rubus idaeus. “ in Wanstead Park.” 
This last note is in pencil on the rear fly leaf of the volume. 
Forster comments on certain of Warner’s records:— 
Amarant[h]us blitum. ‘‘probably an error. ” 
Fagus Castanea [now Castanea vulgaris]. “ planted.” 
Spiraea plipendula ‘‘probably not wild there” [that is, ‘‘on a hilly 
field near Chingford Church,” where it was recorded by Warner] 
“thoit is an Essex plant in the chalky parts of the County towards 
Cambridgeshire.' ’ 
Poly podium dryopteris. “ not to be found there ” [on the walls of 
Chingford Church, where recorded by Warner]. 
Essex Braconids. —Mr. T. G. Lyle, F.E.S., of Cam¬ 
bridge, in a recent series of papers on the sub-family Agathidae 
(in Entomologist, vol. liii., 1920, and liv., 1921), describes 
Marshall’s type specimens of these parasitic hymenopterons, 
contained in the Fitch Collection of Insects in the Club’s Essex 
Museum, which types he has had the opportunity of examining.— 
Percy Thompson. 
32. c.f. Benjamin Forster's corroborative records, Essex Naturalist, xix., p. 87. 
33. Benjamin’s confirmatory record gives the respective dates ; see ibid. p. 72 (Plate iv.). 
