234 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY.
Castanea sativa Mill. Lathyrus hirsutus L.
Convolvulus arvensis L. L. maritimus Bigel.
Coriandrum sativum L. Polygonum aviculare L.
Echinophora spinosa L. var. littorale (Link) ?
Crocus sativus L. Rubus thyrsoidens Bell.
Spartina stricta Roth. Trifolium scabrum L.
Galeopsis angustifolia Ehrh. ? And Tragopogon minus Mill.
(twice)
Of these, Castanea is erased in Merrett's own copy, the record
of Convolvulus is merely that of "C. minimus spicae folius" from
Parkinson (vide supra, pp. 173-1), and that of Coriandrum is only
as a cultivated plant. Crithmum spinosum or Echinophora, is, as
has been already mentioned, only quoted from How's Phytologia
to be contradicted, and Crocus is also enumerated as cultivated.
On p. 69 is the entry Ladanum segetum Plin. G. 699. 7. Sideritis
arvensis flora rubro Cam. P. 58. . and at Purfleet in
Essex;" and, on p. 113, "Sideritis arvensis rubra. P. 587. 13.
Tetrahit angustifolia Hist. Lugd. . . . and at Purbeck in Essex."
These two entries are undoubtedly both taken from that in
Johnson's Ger. cm. p. 699 quoted above (p. 175 supra), and
Parkinson's Theatrum p. 587, and refer to one species, Galeopsis
angustifolia Ehrh., in all probability, and to Purfleet. This
reduces Merrett's additions to our county flora to seven, most of
which present points of special interest.
p. 58. "Gramen Sparteum capite bifida vel gemina. . . At Crixey ferry in
Essex." [Spartina stricta Roth.]
Merrett's discovery of this salt-marsh species, which we now
know from the shores of Western Europe from Portugal to
Holland, and in England from Devon to Lincolnshire, attracted
the attention of the more accurate Adam Buddie, who became
vicar of Great Fambridge in 1705. In his manuscript Flora,
written in 1708, he says, "I found it in Aug. 1703 abundantly in
the marshes upon the River Wallfleet, near Fambridge Ferry in
Dengey hundred in Essex." A description of it, from Petiver's
hortus siccus, appeared in the Appendix to the third volume of
Ray's Historia Plantarum (p. 248) in 1704, possibly from the pen
of Buddie, and it appears as No. 35 in Petiver's Graminum
Concordia (much of which is copied from Buddie's manuscript), in
1716, under the name Spurium Essexianum, spica gemina clausa.
This name is employed in Dillenius's edition of the Synopsis (1724),
where the description runs: "sparteum serotinum, spica totali in