NEW PLANTS 33 



In 16 19 Goodyer took to growing two kinds of tobacco 

 at Droxford. 



There are several lists of garden plants among the 

 Goodyer papers, but unfortunately they have no localities 

 or dates attached to them, with the exception of a short 

 list of plants, without date, and not in Goodyer's hand (see 

 p. 347). It is headed To have from Mr. Gibbes. Of the 

 plants enumerated only six are noted by Johnson as occurring 

 in the garden of Mr. George Gibbes of Bath in 1634. 



Another list in his own autograph may refer to plants 

 growing at Droxford (p. 327). 



1619 



Of the year 16 19 there is but little to record except the 

 discovery and description of two plants, one of which was 

 new to the British flora. He also wrote the description of the 

 Li7iuin catharticuni, part of which has already been quoted. 



On the 3rd of August he found the Small Woodruff or 

 Squinancy-wort {Asperula Cynanchica L.), and thus he inde- 

 pendently discovered one of the denizens of the chalk hills 

 which had been previously, though probably unknown to 

 him, noticed by Lobel in the Isle of Wight : ' cretaceis 

 gaudet montosis prope Drayton e regione Vectis Insulae '. 

 Goodyer's observation of 16 19 was printed by his friend 

 Johnson in 1633, ^^'^ Lobel's earlier note was printed by 

 his admirer, Dr. How, in 1655. The Procumbent Marsh- 

 wort [Apiutn nodifiormn) is recorded on the authority of 

 Goodyer^ by How: we are now able to print the original 

 description (p. 114). 



A further success was the addition of a new Hedge- 

 Parsley to our flora {Caucalis nodosa Scop.^). Later on 

 Goodyer discovered the Field Hedge- Parsley 'amongst 

 wheat plentifully near Petersfield'." 



His well-known description of the Dewberry [Rubtcs 

 caesins L.), distinguishing it from other Brambles under 



^ How, Phytologia. ^ Druce, Goodyer, p. I. ' Merret, Pinax, 24. 



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