HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 175
To Johnson's work we seem to owe the addition of only six
species to our Essex' list, for one of which he is only indirectly to
be credited. They are
Damasonium alisma Mill. Galeopsis angustifolia Ehr.
Linum catharticum L. Apium graveolens L.
Anagallis caerulea Schreb. Trifolium fragiferum L.
The records run as follows :—
p. 418. " Plantago aquatica minor stellata. Starry headed small Water-
Plantaine . . . . I found . a little beyond Ilford, in the way to
Rumford." [Damasonium alisma Miller. The first British record]
p. 559. " Linum sylvestre catharticum. Mil-mountaine. my friend Mr.
John Goodyer . . told me he had long knowne the plant, and .
hath sent me this historie of it, which you shall haue as I receiued it from
him . . . . . It groweth ... on Purfleet hils in Essex." [Linum
catharticum L.]
p. 618. " Anagallis faemina. Female Pimpernell . . . differeth not
from the male in any one point but in the colour of the floures ; for . . .
this plant bringeth forth floures of a most perfect blew colour .... I
also being in Essex in the company of my kind friend Mr. Nathaniel Wright
found this among the corne at Wrightsbridge, being the seate of Mr. John
Wright his brother." [Anagallis caerulea Schreb.]
p. 699. " There is another plant that growes frequently in the Corne
fields of Kent, and by Purfleet in Essex . . . Camerarius calls it Sideridis
arvensis flore rubro and in the Historia Lugd. it is named Tetrahit augusti folium,
and thought to be Ladanum segetum of Pliny, mentioned lib. 29, cap. 8. and lib.
26, cap. 11. It hath a stalke some foot or better high, set with sharp pointed
longish leaues, hauing two or three nickes on their sides, and growing by-
couples ; at the top of the branches, and also the maine stalks it selfe, stand in
one or two roundles faire red hooded floures : the root is small and fibrous,
dying euery yeare when it hath perfected the seed. It floures in July and
August. This is also sometimes found with a white floure." [Galeopsis
angustifolia Ehr. ?]
This form, the G. canescens of Schultz seems more frequent
than the G. intermedium Vill.
p. 1014. " Eleoselinum, sine Paludapium. Smallage. It growes wilde
abundantly vpon the bankes in the salt marshes of Kent and Essex." [Apium
graveolens L.]
p. 1208. " Trifolium fragiferum. Straw-berry Trefoile . . . growes in
most salt marishes, as . . in those below Purfleet." [Trifolium fragi-
ferum L.]
Of John Goodyer, to whom we owe the record of Linum
catharticum, we know but little. Johnson in his address 'To the
Reader' says "In the first place let me remember the onely
Assistant I had in this Worke, which was Mr. John Goodyer of
Maple-Durham in Hampshire, from whom I received many
accurate descriptions, and some other observations concerning