HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY.
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in the high way leading from Braintree to Henningham castle in Essex, and
not in any other place except here and there a plant vpon the highway from
Much-Dunmow to London." Dipsacus pilosus L.]
p. 1034. " Melilotus germanica . . German Clauer . . . no part of
the world doth enioy so great part thereof as England, and especially Essex ;
for I haue seene betweene Sudbury in Suffolk, and Clare in Essex, and from
Clare to Heningham, and from thence to Ouendon, Bulmare, and Pedmarsh,
very many acres of earable pasture overgrowne with the same ; insomuch
that it doth not onely spoyle their land, but the corne also, as Cockle or
Darnel, and as a weed that generally spreadeth ouer that corner of the Shire."
[Melilotus officinalis Lam. or possibly M. arvensis Willd, in part. Not so trouble-
some now-a-days.]
p. 1057. Hedysarum Glycyrhizatum. Liquorice hatchet Fetch . . . in
Essex about Dunmow, and in the townes called Clare and Hennyngham."
[Astragalus glycyphyllos L.] Johnson (Ger. em. p. 1236) adds :—"Also it growes
by Purfleet, about the foot of the hill whereon the Wind-mill stands."
p. 1088. " Rosa Pimpinella folio. The Pimpinell Rose . . groweth
very plentifully in a field as you go from a village in Essex, called Graies (vpon
the brinke of the riuer Thames) vnto Horndon on the hill, insomuch that the
field is full fraught therewith all ouer." [Rosa spinosissima L. The first
British record.]
p. 1299. " Tilia faemina. The female Line tree or Linden tree . . .
seemeth to be a kinde of Elme, and the people of Essex about Heningham
(wheras great plenty groweth by the way sides) do call it broad leafed Elme
. . . neere Colchester, and in many places alongst the high way leading
from London to Henningham, in the Countie of Essex." [Tilia platyphyllos
Scop. Vide supra pp. 59-60.]
p. 1302. " Populus alba. The white Poplar tree . in Essex at a place
called Ouenden." Populus alba L. The first British record.]
There is no work of importance containing any reference to
Essex botany between Gerard's Herball and the 'emaculate'
edition of it published by Thomas Johnson in 1633, of which
there is a copy in the Club's library.
Of William Coys, of Stubbers, in the parish of North
Ockington (now written Ockendon), in this county, we unfortu-
nately know but very little. He had a garden, which both Lobel
and Gerard state to have been richly stored with exotics, and in
which the Yucca gloriosa first flowered in England in the year
1604.23 Johnson, in the Appendix to his edition of Gerard, speaks
of various exotics received by Coys from Guillaume Boel, a
native of the Low Countries, and Parkinson records (Theatrum,
pp. 83-4) that he found 'Matricaria bullatis floribus aureis, Naked
Featherfew,' probably a rayless form of Matricaria inodora L., in
Essex.
23 Pena and Lobel, Adversaria, i., 501 ; ii., 471.