HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY.
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*Typha latifolia L., p. 308.
*T. angustifolia L., p. 308.
Those new to Essex are marked with an *, those new to
Britain with †. As I have quoted the pages, and there are
seldom two Essex species on one page, no one need have any
difficulty in testing my identifications. Some of these records
demand fuller notice.
" Auricula leporis minima J.B. An Bupleurum minimum Park ? An Bupl.
angustissimo folio C.B. The least Hares-ear. Deceptum puto Gerardum, cum
Bupleurum angustifolium Dod. apud nos sponte provenire asserat. Illud sc.
mihi nunquam occurrit, at haec a J. Banhino torn. 3. part. 2. pag. 201. descripta
saepius. As near Ellesley in the road from Cambridge to St. Neotes, on a bank
by the Northern roadside a little beyond Huntington. At Maldon in Essex, in a
yard where they build vessels at Fullbridge: at Hastings in Sussex, near the
little brook that runs beside the castle, below the bridge, and elsewhere. . .
Accutatam ejus turn figuram turn descriptionem vide apud J.B. loco citato."
When, in 1831, Thomas Corder recognised Bupleurum
falcatum and described it in the supplement to English Botany, he
stated, on the authority of Edward Forster, that Gerard and
others had previously noticed it in England, quoting the figure
in Johnson's Gerard, p. 608. Though neither Gerard's nor
Johnson's figures are satisfactory means of identifying the plants
described by them, and, as Mr. Gibson says (Flora of Essex, p.
135), this figure "seems more like some other species," the
description is even less satisfactory. According to the synonymy
quoted, this species and B. rigidum (unknown in Britain)
occurred together at Beeston Castle, Cheshire, a possible locality
for B. tenuissimum (though not mentioned in the late Lord De
Tabley's Flora), but most improbable for the others. B. tenuis-
simum is mainly a salt-marsh species, though not exclusively so,
and is still not uncommon on the east coast of our county. It
may at any time have been introduced, as Watson suggests,2
with sea-side gravel brought inland for footpaths, though several
of the recorded inland localities are naturally gravelly spots, as,
for instance, Ealing Common (Flora of Middlesex, p. 126). In
Dale's herbarium is a specimen labelled by him "Bupleurum
angustissimo folio C.B. 278. Tourn. Inst. 310. Bupleurum
minimum Col. Ecp. 1. 247. Park. Auricula leporis minima J.B.
3. 201. Raii Hist. 1. 474. Synop. 115. Cat. Angl. Apud Maldon
collegi." There are also in the British Museum Herbarium (1)
2 Topographical Botany, ed. i., p. 630.