On the Species of the Genus Primula in Essex. 175
which will, however, be found correctly to describe the area
occupied by this plant in Essex. The boundary-line is a very
sharp one, and the Primrose comes close up to it on all its
Essex sides. I have myself made out this line, so that I do
not think the district can be further extended in Essex unless
it be to the N. of Birdbrook, Ashen, and Little Yeldham;
although very probably it might be found to extend into the
contiguous portions of Herts, Cambridgeshire, and Suffolk.
P. elatior is met with in Great Hales Wood, Little Hales
Wood, Monk's Hall Wood, and all the many woods about
Ashdon and Hadstock; in Pounce Wood, and all the nu-
merous woods lying round it to the N.E. of Saffron Walden;
in a damp meadow and in all the woods round Debden Park;
in some woods near Newport; at Widdington, Henham, and
Ugley; in Quendon Wood, and the woods round Elsenham,
Stanstead Montfitchet, and Birchanger; in Parker's Wood,
and Dawkins Wood, near Takeley; in a large wood and a
meadow near Thremhall Priory;35 in a large wood near
Broxted; in the Maze and other woods at Tiltey; in a
meadow beside the brook near Lashley Hall, and in Galley
Wood, Dow Wood, Bigods Wood, and Dow Wood Springs at
Lindsell; sparingly in Fox's Wood, and abundantly in Lub-
berhedges Wood, Great Bardfield; in a moist meadow near
"Woolpits," and in Newpster Wood and several other woods
in Great and Little Saling ; at Panfield, Grinstead Green,
Shalford Park Wood; on the sides of the small ditches in
the lowest parts of the wet meadows on both sides of the
river near Codham Mill; in a large wood close to Wethers-
field ; sparingly in a low meadow between that place and
Finchingfield; in the Mount Hall Woods, Little Sampford,
and in a wet meadow adjoining them ; in Hempstead Wood,
and Laker's Grove; in Old Park Wood, Stambourne, and a
wet meadow below the church; in Pitiful Wood, and a
low meadow near Ridgwell, also in a meadow near the
church; in Hyde Wood, Little Yeldham; sparingly in
12-acre Wood, Belchamp Otten, also in Avesey Wood, Thax-
ted; in Bolcrow Wood, Grassy Wood, Brockley Wood,
Peverill's Wood, Rowney Wood, Oak Wood, and apparently
without exception in all the other woods extending the whole
way between Thaxted and Saffron Walden.36
35 'Phytologist,' vol. i., p. 971.
36 From this it may be seen that, although the Oxlip does not occupy
the whole of any one of Prof. Boulger's Essex Drainage Districts (Trans.
Essex Field Club, ii., p. 79), still it inhabits a considerable portion of all
of them except No. III. (River Crouch).