The Scarce Plants of Essex. Part I. Update. K.J. ADAMS Dept. Life Sciences, University of East London E15 4LZ The following additional records have come to 1 ight in respect of the species covered in Essex Naturalist 16: 101-109. Aceras anthropophorum TL(52)63 19 Man Orchid Lt Sampford, a single flowering spike appeared for the first time in a pasture, 1999. The first ever record for north west Essex. Orange Foxtail Clavering, pond. 1998. Shirley & Charles Watson. Stansted Marsh, 1984. Shirley & Charles Watson. Stansted, pond, still in fl. 19 September 1997. Shirley & Charles Watson. Hatfield Forest, pond in Street Coppice. 1984. Shirley & Charles Watson. Little Baddow, shallow water course in drained former sedge bed by the Chelmer, 1994 and 1995. Stanley Hudgell. Coggeshall, Witch Wood, in smaller of 2 ponds. 12 June 1995, still there 1997. Ursula Broughton & Brian Wright. Tilty, pond nr. the Abbey. 1981. Shirley & Charles Watson. Messing cum Inworth, plentiful in pond in northern part of Pods Wood. 23 July 1997. Anne Guiver & Terri Tarpey. Thorpe le Soken, small pond on Far Thorpe Green, some at pond edge, also plentiful on damp ground to west of pond. 10 June 1997. CNHS. Alopecurus aequalis TL(52)43 459,326 19 TL(52)52 504,240 19 524,244 19 543,211 19 TL(52)7() 767,086 18 TL(52)82 857,255 19 TL(52)62 601,266 19 TL(52)91 902,180 19 TM(62)12162,226 19 Tordylium maximum TQ(51)88 708,868 18 Hartwort In addition to the records mentioned in the article in Essex Naturalist 16: 75-78. - a colony has been successfully established (1996) from Benfleet seed at Bells Hill by Rodney Cole. Essex Naturalist (New Series) 17 (2000)