richard warner's "plantae Woodfordienses." 73
timate personal acquaintance with, the neighbourhood of
Walthamstow, rather than of Woodford or other adjacent dis-
tricts, notwithstanding the nominal title of the book. Most
of his localities are thereabouts. We have exact descriptions,
and the names of individual occupiers given, as, for example,
"Mr. Dixon's wall, Hoe Street," "in Hoe Street by Mr. Agar's
palings," "yo wall belongs to Tony Hall Shernhall Str.," and so
on: whilst such localities as "the lane by our garden," "the
Common-field behind our field, i.e. the Church-common field"
(elsewhere repeatedly localised as being at Walthamstow),
"in our southern field Hoe Street," "our field, Hoe Street,"
"our field in Hoe-street found 1788," and "in the 4th field from
our house in Wood Street," serve still further to locate with exacti-
tude the place of residence of the writer.
Further evidence is afforded by the fact that on one of the
interleaved sheets, immediately preceding the printed Preface,
the manuscript-writer has given a special
"List of Plants growing in Higham Hill Common field:
Trifolium arvense.
,, striatum
,, agrarium [T. procumbens]1
Medicago arabica.
Scabiosa arvensis [Knautia arvensis]
Jasione montana
Centaurea cyanus
Lathyrus nissolia
Ervum hirsutum [Vicia hirsuta]
Ornithopus perpusillus
Caucalis arvensis [Torilis arvensis].
Hyoseris minima (sic.) [Myosurus minimus]
Papaver argemone
Scandix pecten-veneris
Spergula arvensis
Agrostemma githago [Lychnis githago]
Scleranthus annuus
Papaver dubium"
which indicates his special knowledge of, and interest in, that
particular locality, again a Walthamstow one.
1 Names in square brackets give the present day nomenclature, as adopted by the British
Museum authorities.