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Serratula tinctoria. "By Snaresbrook Pond."
Taxus baccata. "A small plant of it in the woods not far from the
Sale-gate by the Royal Oak," also "Two small plants of it in the Hawk
June 1788."
Asplenium trichomanes. "Oil a wall at the end of Wood-street near
Whips-cross, also on a wall in the garden of Mrs. Moyer, Low Layton."
Trifolium fragiferum "in plenty in the right hand Marsh (North),
not far from Lea-bridge, in flower, 13 Aug. 1801."
Verbena officinalis. "Found with white flowers, in Shernall 1825."
Vinca minor. "In the Lark, plenty in one spot."
Ophr [Listera] ovata. "In Mr. Nor is's tithe field or orchard, saw
this several years ago (1793)."
Fumaria [Corydalis] claviculata. "Left hand in wood Holly-bush-
hill Wanstead or near, 1825."
Mentha gentilis "several plants I found this afternoon by a ditch
near a small ozier-ground higher up (eastward) river than Bolton's-Ferry,
not far from the River, they grow by the Plank bridge. Friday 3d Aug.
1827."
Adoxa moschatellina. "Plenty in a field by the Rivulet between Hale-
end and Chaple end, also in a wood between the same places. In that
wood plenty in Flower 25 April 1825."
Ophrys [Neottia] nidus avis. "Found one specimen near the same
spot" [i.e. as recorded by Warner, near the Royal Oak, Hale End],
June 2nd 1786 also one other the same month, one specimen found in
the wood called the Hawk 14 June 1787 found in the same place 1788."
Jasione montana. "on a. bank in a field on left hand of Angel-lane,
leading from Leyton to Stratford in flower 4 Aug. 1814."
Samolus valerandi. "In Plaistow Marsh 1804."
Sium arvense [Petroselinum segetum]. "On Bank Hagger-Lane near
Turning to Hale End." 'On Bank of Hagger-Lane by Hale-Brinks near
upper end of the Lanc 29th July 1824." "Three plants April 1825, at
coiner of Hagger-Lane, turning to Hale End." "Near Chingford Church
on the banks under the hedges."
Trifolium subterraneum. "on a slope, near the front of Wansted-
House in the Park, 111 flower June 1801."
In considering these records we have constantly to bear in
mind the great changes which have taken place in the neighbour-
hoods concerned. The plants recorded tell of meadows, corn-
fields, and country lanes where now rows and rows of "unlovely
streets" evidence the forward sweep of the great metropolis.
Even so late as 1861, an enthusiastic local writer, whose pro-
phetic vision was surely less remarkable than his native piety,
says of the Walthamstow of his day:—
"To those then who are anxious to know what will be the
future of Walthamstow, we reply that Walthamstow—with
its fertile soil and fruitful fields, its stately cedars, its wide-spread