a8 JOHN GOODYER 



house is still standing, and even though more than three 

 hundred years old, is a comfortable home. A stone in the 

 wall records the year 1606, when it was built, and the year 

 1867, when it was repaired. The timber-framed walls 

 of the upper story are partly filled in with wattle and dab, 

 and partly with a warm red brick. The old kitchen chimney 

 is so wide that it can only be swept by climbing inside ; 

 and there is, it is said, but one man now living who is 

 willing to strip to his trousers and bring down the soot. 

 This was the home of Rose Yalden, Goodyer's sister: 

 plants in the garden at Sheet are oft-times mentioned in 

 his papers, the last being some Sweet Potatoes in 1637. 



To plants found near his own home at Droxford, he 

 frequently refers. In a wood by Strugnells in the Thetcher, 

 near Droxford, he found Luriaria minor on 21st May, and 

 again on i June. These are the first notices of Moonwort 

 in Hampshire. He records plants collected (and incidentally 

 his own movements) at Chawton ^ (10 June), Sheet ^ 

 (7 July), Chawlton-' (18 July), Tichfield* (20 July), Houns- 

 low Heath ^ (30 July). In August he was travelling in 

 Wiltshire, visiting Warminster*^ (21 August), and Venny 

 Sutton, "^ now Sutton-Veny (27 August). And nearer home 

 he visited Winchester, Southampton, and Emsworth. 



At Winchester he noted that ' Willowe ' was the popular 

 name for ' Chamaenerion Gesneri ', which is therefore the 

 first evidence of the Willow herb [Epilobiuin angiistifolium 

 L.) in Hampshire. It is a plant which has since been 



^ ' Herba Paris, some with five and six leaves.' The first notice for Hants of 

 Paris qiiadrifolia : Gilbert White noted it again in 1778. 



* ' Scabiosa minima hirsuta.' Probably the first record oi Jasione j/iovdifta L. 



^ *Jacea flora albo.' Perhaps a white variety of the Greater Knapweed 

 {Centatirea Scabiosa L.). 



■* ' Erynj^ium marinum.' First evidence of the Sea Holly {E7-y7igiu)ii mari- 

 iimuin L) in Hants. Eryngo roots candied were a favourite delicacy in the 

 days of James I, but they were then obtained from the East coast. Sir John 

 Salusbury, c. 1580, knew their medicinal value. 



'' ' Plantago aquatica stellata,' First record of Damasoiiium Alisma Mill., 

 the rarest of our Water Plantains. 



" ' Colchicum flo. albo et purpureo.' 



'' ' Ebulus ', ' called Scots Blood '. Sambiicus Ebuliis L. or Banewort. 



