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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Trifolium pumilum supinum flosculis longis albis. Raii Syn. 327
Trifolium (subterraneum) capitulis villosis subquinquefloris, involucro
centrali reflexo rigido, fructum involvente Huds. Fl. 286,
Classis Linnaei Diadelphia Decandria.
Dwarf Trefoil.
Found in Wansted Park, near the garden gate plentifully.
It flowers in May.
Turritis vulgaris ramosa Raii Syn. 294.
Arabis (thaliana) foliis petiolaris lanceolatis integerrimis Hudsoni Fl. 254.
Classis Linnaei Tetradynamia Siliquosa.
Codded Mouse Ear.
On walls, roofs, and in dry fields common.
It flowers in May.
Typha palustris media Raii Syn. 436.
Typha (angustifolia) foliis semicylindricis spica mascula feminiaque re-
motis Hudsoni Fl. 345.
Classis Linnaei. Monoecia Triandria.
Narrow leaved Cat's Tail.
Found on a bog in the woods near Salter's Buildings in plenty.
It flowers in July.
Vicia Raii Syn. 320.
Vicia (saliva) leguminibus sessilibus subbinatis erectis, foliolis retusis,
stipulis notatis Hudsoni Fl. 278.
Classis Linnaei Diadelphia Decandria.
Common Vetch or Tare.
In fields among corn and. in hedges common.
It flowers in May and June.
A slip pasted in the fly-leaf bears a MS. note as follows :—
"In this copy is found I think the very earliest record (here in
MS.) of the Cytopleris [sic] regia as growing upon that well-known
wall near Leyton, mem. the approximate date of these MS. Notes
may I think be fixed by that at p. 105 (Listera nidus avis) where
we find May 28 1778 as the the [sic] day on which this rare plant
was observed by the writer" ; and on the interleaf facing page
105 the manuscript annotation which records Ophrys nidus avis
(given above) has a gloss running thus, "the 'Sale'—a wood of
small extent at Hale End still known 1840 by that name. W.P."
The writer of both these notes is quite certainly William Pamplin,
the botanist-publisher of 45 Frith Street, Soho Square, who
published Gibson's Flora of Essex in 1862 ; comparison of known
examples of Pamplin's calligraphy with the present volume leaves
no doubt on the point.
Comparison of the MS. annotations with the printed "Addi-
tions" of 1784 shows that there exists an almost complete
identity between the two lists of plants ; all the new records