46 JOHN GOODYER 



Among foreign authors he would have relied largely 

 on Matthiolus, Bauhin, and on Lobel. One of the most 

 important works that appeared during his working life was 

 the Pinax of Kaspar Bauhin, the result of forty years of 

 toil, published in 1623, and acquired by Goodyer in the 

 same year. This work carried still further Lobel's idea 

 that natural affinity must be the foundation of a truly 

 natural system : it went far to clear up the confusion in the 

 nomenclature of the day, which had resulted from the fact 

 that different names had often been given to the same 

 plant by different authors. The Pinax, as Reynolds Green 

 has well put it, ' not only got rid of much confusion by 

 setting forth the different synonyms in use, but it introduced 

 greater terseness of description, and helped to restrict the 

 inordinate length of names '. Green did not think that 

 Bauhin's work had exerted any great influence in England : ^ 

 but we have noted a profound influence upon Goodyer's 

 work, who prepared and, had times been favourable, would 

 assuredly have published a Pinax of the British flora on 

 the lines of Bauhin, whose works he had read, marked, 

 and inwardly digested from cover to cover. 



Goodyer's excursions in search of plants were rewarded 

 by the finding on 2 June of two species of Pondweeds new 

 to the British aquatic flora. Both were growing quite near 

 home, the one actually in Droxford, the other just over the 

 Sussex border at Durford on the upper waters of the 

 Rother. A paper, MS. f. 6, suggests that either Goodyer, 

 or more probably Sir T. Bilson, was interested in land that 

 once belonged to the old Priory at Durford. 



On 29 June, about a mile from his native town of 

 Alton, he found a plant which he described as ' Nidus avis 

 flore et caule violaceo purpureo colore '. This he ' found 

 wilde in the border of a field called Marborne, neere 

 H abridge in Haliborne . . . being the land of one 



^ On this point Dr. Church notes that in Oxford ' Bauhin's Pinax prompted 

 Sherard's Pinax of Dillenius, and hence was responsible in England for the 

 Sherardian Professor of Botany '. 



