170 On the Species of the Genus Primula in Essex. 
To this I have but little to add, except that the Primrose 
certainly grows in a great many localities other than those 
specially mentioned. I have met with it in most parts of the 
county, except at Walden and Bardfield, and the district 
lying between those places. I have never seen it more 
abundant than on the railway-bank and in hedgerows between 
Sudbury and Chappell, and in the district to the N.W. of 
Chelmsford, round Chignal, Maslibury, and the Easters, as 
far as Pleshey. North of that place and about Dunmow it 
grows more sparingly, but is still not rare—in fact it seems 
to be a common plant throughout the comity, except in the 
district to the S. and S.E. of Walden, extending, perhaps, as 
far as Great Bardfield, in which parish it does not grow, as I 
know from several sources. Henry Doubleday says so; 28 
1 have never met with it there, and various friends and 
relatives residing in the parish have informed me that it does 
not exist there. However, I know that it grows in the 
parishes of Great and Little Baling, Stebbing, Shalford, and 
Lindsell, which adjoin Great Bardfield on the S., E., and S.E. 
It will be observed that the tract of land from which the 
Primrose is absent is that district in which, of all others, 
P. elatior abounds, and this is both a strange and interesting 
fact. The valley of the brook Slade, and the Cam seem to 
mark the western boundary of the Oxlip in the Walden 
district. On the western side of this the Primrose grows 
pretty commonly, and is well distributed; thus I have met 
with it at Clavering, Langley Lawn Wood, Great and Little 
Cliishall, Heydon, Clirisliall, Elmdon, Wenden Lofts, near 
Elmdon Lea and Littlebury Green, Strethall, Great and 
Little Cliesterford, and in the Slade Yalley. In the valley of 
this small brook, which, as I have before stated, forms the 
western boundary of the P. elatior area, a curious mixture of 
Primulas is to be met with. If we go up it for about a mile 
from Saffron Walden we shall see two woods opposite one 
another on either slope. Entering that on the right hand, 
(Grim’s Ditch Wood), we shall find, just on the edge, plenty of 
Primroses, a few Cowslips, with some Hybrid Oxlips, and an 
28 ‘ Phytologist,’ vol. i., p. 204. 
