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terested in their flowers, buds, and galls. He added to these 

 notes and wrote them out afresh on 9 May 1622 : they are 

 printed under that date in Johnson's Gerard. 



Business at this time brought him into touch with the lands 

 and villagers of Soberton, a hamlet about a mile and a half 

 south of Droxford. It was there that he gathered the 

 'Oenanthe Angustifolia'. This has been identified by Druce 

 as the first record of the Marsh Parsley Oenanthe in Britain, 

 but Townsend [Flora) considers that it was the Sulphur-wort 

 Dropwort {Oenanthe silaifolia Bieb.) that was found. 



'This 19 of May 1620 I found this wild in East Hoc in ye 

 parish of Subberton about 7 miles from Petersfield in Hampshire 

 in a hedgerowe about a flightshott from ye then dwelling-house 

 of Mr. William Browne on ye south part of ye said house and ye 

 18 of June 1620 I saw it there in flower.'^ 



Merrett^ gives the locality as East How. William Browne 

 of Hoe had purchased the manor of Soberton in 1619.^ 



A few days later an excursion to the New Forest yielded 

 another new plant, the Narrow-leaved Lungwort {Pul- 

 monaria angustifolia), whose fine blue flowers attracted 

 his attention on 25 May 'in a Wood by Holbury House'. 

 It is a rarity in Britain ; Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 

 being the only stations where it grows wild. The Forest 

 children call it 'Joseph and Mary'.^ 



In the summer he described the following plants : 



Linaria minor Desf. 



Siuvi erectum Huds. 



Phyteuma orbicular e L. 



Bartsia Odontites L. 



Thesimn humifusum DC. 

 Carduus acaidis L. 

 Melampyrum sylvaticum L. 

 Senecio sarracenicus L. 

 Echinochloa Crus-galli L. 

 Ocimum Basilicum L. 

 Jaso7iia tuberosa DC. 

 Carum segetum, Benth. 



^ Goodyer quoted by How. MS. note to Phytologia^ p. 81. 

 "^ Pinax, p. 84. ' Vict. County Hist. Hants, iii. 263. * J. Vaughan. 



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