On the Species of the Genus Primula in Essex. 175 
which will, however, be found correctly to describe the area 
occupied by this plant in Esses. The boundary-line is a very 
sharp one, and the Primrose comes close up to it on all its 
Esses sides. I have myself made out this line, so that I do 
not think the district can be further estended in Esses unless 
it be to the N. of Birdbrook, Ashen, and Little Yeldham; 
although very probably it might be found to estend into the 
contiguous portions of Herts, Cambridgeshire, and Suffolk. 
P. elatior is met with in Great Hales Wood, Little Hales 
Wood, Monk’s Hall Wood, and all the many woods about 
Ashdon and Hadstock; in Pounce Wood, and all the nu¬ 
merous woods lying round it to the N.E. of Saffron Walden; 
in a damp meadow and in all the woods round Debden Park; 
in some woods near Newport; at Widdington, Henham, and 
Ugley; in Quendon Wood, and the woods round Elsenham, 
Stanstead Montfitchet, and Birchanger; in Parker’s Wood, 
and Dawkin’s Wood, near Takeley; in a large wood and a 
meadow near Thremhall Priory; 35 in a large wood near 
Brosted; in the Maze and other woods at Tiltey; in a 
meadow beside the brook near Lashley Hall, and in Galley 
Wood, Dow Wood, Bigods Wood, and Dow Wood Springs at 
Lindsell; sparingly in Fox’s Wood, and abundantly in Lub- 
berliedges Wood, Great Bardfield; in a moist meadow near 
“ Woolpits,” and in Newpster Wood and several other woods 
in Great and Little Saiing; at Panfield, Grinstead Green, 
Shalford Park Wood; on the sides of the small ditches in 
the lowest parts of the wet meadows on both sides of the 
river near Codham Mill; in a large wood close to Wethers¬ 
field ; sparingly in a low meadow between that place and 
Finchingfield; in the Mount Hall Woods, Little Sampford, 
and in a wet meadow adjoining them; in Hempstead W r ood, 
and Laker’s Grove; in Old Park Wood, Stambourne, and a 
wet meadow below the church; in Pitiful Wood, and a 
low meadow near Bidgwell, also in a meadow near the 
church; in Hyde Wood, Little Yeldham; sparingly in 
12-acre Wood, Belcliamp Otten, also in Avesey Wood, Tliax- 
ted; in Bolcrow Wood, Grassy Wood, Brockley Wood, 
Peverill’s Wood, Bowney Wood, Oak Wood, and apparently 
without exception in all the other woods extending the whole 
way between Thaxted and Saffron Walden. 36 
35 ‘ Phytologist,’ vol. i., p. 974. 
36 From this it may be seen that, although the Oxlip does not occupy 
the vrhole of any one of Prof. Boulger’s Essex Drainage Districts (Trans. 
Essex Field Club, ii., p. 79), still it inhabits a considerable portion of all 
of them except No. III. (Eiver Crouch). 
