^6 JOHN GOODYER 



He found both the Water Parsnip {Siitm erecHim Huds.) 

 and the Bastard Toadflax [Thesium hitmifusuni DC), near 

 Droxford, the former growing in the River Meon, the 

 latter ' wild on the side of a chalkie hill in an inclosure 

 on the right hand by the way, as you goe from Droxford 

 to Poppie Hiir. Both these references are the earliest 

 we have to these plants in Britain, as also is his excellent 

 description of the Honewort or Corn Parsley {J^arum 

 seo^ehwi), which he again wrote out for the new Herbal in 

 16,^2. 



Further detailed descriptions were written of plants as 

 they flowered in his own garden or in those of his friends, 

 for instance Acmos odo7'atissim^ivi : 'I first found growing 

 in the sfarden of Mr. William Yalden in Sheete near 

 Petersfield in Hampshire, Anno 1620, amongst sweet 

 Marjerom, and which by chance they bought with the 

 seedes thereof. It is to be considered whether the seedes 

 of sweete Marjerom degenerate and send forth this herbe 

 or not, nth October 1621, John Goodyer' [Ger. emac. 677). 



But the outstanding event of the year was a visit to the 

 garden of his 'worthy friend and excellent Herbarist of 

 happy memorie Mr. William Coys of Stubbers in the 

 parish of North Okington in Essex '. Goodyer came away 

 with the seeds of many rare and little known plants, in- 

 cluding several that had been collected by Boelius in Spain 

 and had been brought over by him to England. Among 

 other novelties which were thus introduced into the 

 Droxford garden in 1620 were : 



Acaina flore rubro. Carlina lanata L. 



Aracus maior Baeticus Boelii. Vicia sativa i-i linearis Lange. ? 



Cattaria tuberosa radice Baclica Neptta tuberosa L. 



Boelii. 



Ervilia silvestris Dodonaei. Laihyrus Ochriis L. 



Faba velerum serratis I'oliis Boelii. Vicia Faba L. var. 



Geranium Baclicum Boelii. Erodiuvi gruimnn Willd. ? 



Gramen cristatum Baeticuni Boelii. Cytiosiirus cchinalus L. 



Gramen tremulum maximum. Briza maxima L. 



Herba Doria altera 26 July 1620. Senecio sarracenicus L. 



Hieracium stellatum Boelii. Rhagadiolus ediilis Gaerin. 



,, medio nigrum fl. maior B. Tolpis barbata GaerUi. 



