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A REPORT ON THE FLOWERING PLANTS
Tamarix gallica, L. Now grows on the coast, apparently wild,
near Walton-on-the-Naze, and at Alresford.
Epilobium roseum, Schreb. Occurs at Middlemill, Col-
chester.
Oenothera biennis, L. This plant is well established on the
Tendring Hundred Railway near Colchester, but it is doubtless an
escape from a garden which was formerly on the ground where St.
Botolph's station now stands.
Claytonia perfoliata, Don. This American weed is now be-
coming frequent in several parts of England, and is abundant at
Braiswick near Colchester, on the Mersea road, and at Dedham.
Mr. Tillet, a farmer, many years ago cut off from a field next the road
at Braiswick, a piece of land for his boys to amuse themselves
with as a garden. Claytonia was cultivated by them, and has since
spread as a weed for a long distance, and now appears to have
become firmly established.
Impatiens parvifiora, DC. This has been established for
some years at least in Church Lane, Lexden,
Ribes grossularia, L. var. glandulossum. At Boxted Wood,
by the Rev. J. D. Gray.
Chrysosplenium alternifolium, L. At Nayland, by the Rev. J.
D. Gray.
Crithmum maritimum, L. Some of our members may
recollect that at the meeting of the Club at Mersea in 1884, in
speaking of the Marsh Samphire, I called attention to the frequent
mistake made of confusing the Marsh Samphire with the true Sam-
phire, which latter plant had then never been found in Essex. Since
that time a specimen of the true Samphire (Crithmum maritimum)
has been brought to me to name by Mr. W, H. Harwood, who found
a patch of it growing at Great Oakley. Samphire is interesting both
as having been used from very ancient times for making a deliciously
aromatic pickle, very much superior to the comparatively tasteless
Marsh Samphire—and also as being one of Shakespeare's plants,
mentioned in the well-known passage in "King Lear" Act. iv. Sc. vi.
Marsh Samphire is usually found upon rocky sea coast, both on
the rocks and on the shingly beach, and it is one of the last
plants one would expect to find on the flat shores of Essex.
One peculiarity is that though it lives near the sea, it never grows