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Hieracium medio nigrum fl.minoreB. Tolpis umhellata /3 minor Lange. 



„ lanosum. Hieracmm andryatoides Vill. 



Horminum silvestre teitium Clusii. Salvia verticillata L. 

 Jacea capitulis hiisuiis Boelii. ? 



Lagopus trifolius maior Baeticus. Trifoliiim ligusticu7n Balb. ? 



Legumen pallidum Vlissiponense. Vicia liitea /3 laevigata Boiss. 



Malva flore amplo Baetica aestiva. JSIalva moschata L. 



Petum indicam folio pene obtuse. Nicotiana Tabacion v. brasilicnsis. 



Scabiosa flore rubro. Scabiosa sexta Scabiosa atropurpurea'L. 



Indica Clusii. 



Silibum minus fl. nutante Boelii. Nolobasis syriaca Cass. 



Valeriana mexicana. Valeriana corniicopiae L. 



Most of the plants raised from Coys' seed did so well 

 with him that he was able to describe them as they flowered 

 in the following summer. 



It has been suggested ^ that on his way home Goodyer 

 passed Rickmansworth, and there ' in the ponds about 

 Moore Park ' found ' Sium alterum Olusatii facie '. There 

 is, however, no ground for this supposition ; Goodyer himself 

 wrote that he visited Moore Park in 1625. 



We owe our first description of a new kind of English 

 Elm to this same journey into Essex. 



When we consider that many of our contemporaries are 

 so deficient in powers of observation as to be unable to 

 tell one tree from another, it is remarkable that Goodyer 

 should have been so quick in distinguishing the various 

 species of Elm. Two of these had already been recog- 

 nized by Gerard in 1597, and were redescribed by Goodyer 

 for the second edition in 1633 : to these he now added 

 a third, on his way to visit Mr. Coys : 



' I observed it growing very plentifully as I rode betweene 

 Rumford and . . . Stubbers in the year 1620, intermixed with the 

 first kinde (the Common Elm), but easily to be discerned apart, and 

 is in those parts usually called Witch Elme.' 



The name of this Elm has caused considerable confusion 

 in the minds of those who have not attentively read the 

 words ' in those parts '. The Elm is certainly not the 

 Wych Elm ordinarily so called, which Goodyer knew 

 as the Witch Hasell or Broadest-leaved Elm ; but, as 



^ Druce, Goodyer, p. 2. 



