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Old men affirme, that when long boughes were in great use, there 

 were very many made of the wood of this tree, for which purpose 

 it is mentioned in the statutes of England by the name of Witch 

 Hasell, as 8. El. lo. This hath little affinitie with Caj'pimis, which 

 in Essex is called Witch Hasell. 



Smooth Leaved Elm. Ulinus glabra Miller. 

 VImus folio glabro. Witch Elme, or smooth leaven Elme. 



This kinde is in bignesse and height like the first, the boughes 

 grow as those of the Witch Hasell doe, that is hanged more downe- 

 wards than those of the common Elme, the barke is blacker than 

 that of the first kinde, it will also peele from the boughes : the 

 flowers are like the first, and so are the seeds : the leaves in forme 

 are like those of the first kinde, but are smooth in handling on 

 both sides. My worthy friend and excellent Herbarist of happy 

 memorie M''. William Coys of Stubbers in the parish of North- 

 okington in Essex told me, that the wood of this kinde was more 

 desired for naves of Carts than the wood of the first. I observed 

 it growing very plentifully as I rode between Rumford and the said 

 Stubbers, in the yeere 1620 intermixed with the first kinde, but 

 easily to be discerned apart, and is in those parts usually called 

 Witch Elme. — Ger. emac. 1479-82. 



A copy of a Memorandum, dated 15 November, in 

 Goodyer's handwriting is printed on p. 374. 



Part of the winter was spent in working through 

 Gerard's Herbal and in extracting lists of plants, one of 

 which (MS. f 83) was dated 16 Januarii 1620. 



1621 



Goodyer signalized his twenty-ninth year by turning out 

 more descriptions of new or rare plants in the three months 

 of July, August, and September than in all the rest of his 

 life. There must have been some special reason for this 

 great output. It is reasonable to think that he found an 

 incentive in the large number of novelties he had seen 

 in the gardens of Coys and Parkinson. There was also 

 the added interest of possession, of the triumph of the 

 horticulturist : seeds given to him by Coys in the preceding- 

 year were coming up well. What would they become ? 



