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Mentha angustifolia spicata C.B., spicata folio longiora, acuto, glabro
nigriore J.B. Romana Ger. Romana angustifolia sive Cardiaca Park. Spearmint
or Heart-mint. Hujus odor gravior est & injucundior multo quam Menthae
cardiacae in hortis cultae." [Mentha viridis L.]
" Mentastri aquatici genus hirsutum spica laxiore. J.B. Mentha palustris
folio oblonga. C.B. Mentastrum minus. Ger. emac. hirsutum Park. Hairy
Water-mint with a loose spike, and long leaf." [Mentha pubescens Willd. var.
palustris (Sole).] Both found by Mr. Dale, beside Bocking River in Essex, the
one a little above the Fulling-mill, the other below it in two or three places."
" Orchis anthropophora oreades Col. anthropophora oreades faemina Park.
. . . Man-Orchis with a green or ferruginous flower. Found by Mr. Dale
in an old gravel-pit at Dalington near Sudbury in Suffolk." [Aceras anthropophora
R. Br.]
This, as may be seen from the herbaria of Dale and Andrews
is a mistake for "Ballingdon," on the Essex side of the Stour.
The mistake is corrected in Andrews's handwriting in his copy of
the Dillenian Synopsis, now in the possession of Mr. W. A. Clarke,
also on one of Dale's tickets to one of the three specimens of this
species from his herbarium now in the British collection at
Cromwell Road, and by Ray himself in Gibson's Camden, p. 361.
Papaver dubium, "Mr. Dale shew'd it me in our neighbourhood at
Bocking."
Ruppia rostellata, from Goldhanger, as in the Historia.
Prunus insititia. "Observed by Mr. Dale in some hedges both in Essex and
Suffolk."
Viola hirta. "Found by Mr. Dale in Essex and Cambridgeshire in several
places."
[To be continued.]
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON TREE-TRUNK
WATER-PIPES.
By T. V. HOLMES, F.G.S., F. Anthrop. Inst.
WHEN collecting the information about Tree-trunk
Water-pipes, which has already appeared in the
Essex Naturalist,1 I was much struck by the great difficulty
of foreseeing where they were likely to be mentioned, or who
might possess any knowledge of them. As a consequence of the
publication of my remarks, I have learned some additional
details about them from various sources. And considering the
oblivion which so soon enshrouds obsolete contrivances when the
last generation which knew, and used them, has passed away, they
seem worth adding to those already given.
In the first place, my friend, Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S.,
1 Vol. xiii., pages 60-75 (July, 1903).