WILTSHIRE 2g 



reported as abundant in the valley from Beech Farm, 

 where he lived as a boy, to Meadstead. He may, there- 

 fore, have known the plant near home, but may not have 

 been familiar with its Winchester name. The Willow 

 herb remained unrecorded in Hampshire until Gilbert 

 White mentioned it again in his Garden Kalendar for 

 September 1765. 



A more striking discovery was that of ' Lactuca sylvestris 

 vera inerato odore '. 'This wilde stinkincre lettice T found 

 wild on the walls and dry bancks of earth at Southampton. 

 Anno 16 18.' This is the first county record of Lactuca 

 virosa L. He sent seeds to Parkinson, in whose garden 

 Johnson saw it growing about 1630. A detailed descrip- 

 tion was written on 13 September 162 1. 



By a mill at Emsworth he found ' Anagallis aquatica 

 tercia', the Brookweed or Water Pimpernel {Samohis 

 Valerandi L.), thus making his first contribution to the 

 paludal flora of his county. It was not recorded in 

 Hampshire again for more than two hundred years. 



During the last two weeks in August he was travelling 

 in south Wiltshire and passed through Salisbury. The 

 finds on this trip are mentioned in a draft letter dated 

 7 November and written in London. The name of the 

 person to whom it was written does not appear, but from 

 the fact that the names of the plants mentioned are in- 

 cluded in a long list which Goodyer sent to his friend Coys, 

 I strongly suspect that it was addressed to him. 



S'' after my service remembered ... I wrote unto you a letter 

 from Droxford y*" 8 of Sept. last, and therein enclosed certaine 

 stalks & seeds of an herbe which I found in Wiltshere somethinge 

 like to Lysimachia, [I found it in Wiltshere {erased)] also I sent 

 you some of the leaves & stalks of Plantago aquatica stellata 

 which I found in Hounslowe Heath. I therein wrote unto you 

 that I found Colchicuni fl. albo & ptirpureo in Wiltshere, in flower 

 in August last, I have of this roots of them at Droxford, if you 

 want I can furnish you with some of them. I doubt you re- 

 ceaved not that letter, for that our foot-post died by the waie going 

 towards London, since whose death we wanted a foot-post for 



