5a JOHN GOODYER 



In preparation for this journey he made copies of Lobel's 

 descriptions of four species of plants which were already- 

 recorded as living at Portland. Anthyllis prior lentifolia 

 peplios effigie maiitima} Sedum Portlandicum,'^ Hederatmm 

 thlaspi,^ and Papaver cornutiim Jlore phoeniceo!^ We 

 do not know whether he found them all, but we do 

 know that he noticed as a new species a fourth kind 

 of English Elm, the Narrow-leaved Elm, already described 

 on p. 40. 



Eight years later he wrote, * This kinde I have seene 

 growing but once, and that in the hedges by the high way 

 as I rode betweene Christ Church and Limmington in the 

 New Forest, about the middle of September 1624, from 

 whence I brought some small plants of it, not a foot in 

 length, which now, 1633, are risen up ten or twelve foot 

 high, and grow with me by the first kinde [the common 

 Elme], but are easily to be discerned apart, by any that 

 will looke on both.' 



It has been suggested, by Druce, that Goodyer's Narrow- 

 leaved Elm was the Cornish Elm, but Elwes and Henry 

 both refer it to Ubnits rninor Miller, which they call 

 Goodyer's Elm, and with which the}' merge Druce's U. 

 Ploiii. Elwes states that Goodyer's Elm has been lately 

 found near Christchurch by Dr. Moss. 



On 10 September he wrote a description of the Shrubby 

 Suaeda {Siiaeda friiticosa Forsk.) under the name of 

 * Chamaepytis vermiculata '. 



Johnson quotes him on the subject of the great abun- 

 dance of the Common Spleenwort in Woolmer Forest. 

 'Mr. Goodyer saith that in January 1624 he saw enough 

 to lade an horse growing on the bancks in a lane, as he 

 rode betweene Kakc and Headly in Hampshire, neere 

 Wollmer Forrest' {Ger. C7)iac. 1146). 



^ Arc7i<i?-ia pcploidcs L. ^ Euphorbia p07-ilandica\^. ^ Cochlearia 



danicaX^. ■* Glancuitn fi/ioenicemn Cra.v\t.i. The ' Sediiin ' is usually quoted 



as ' Tithymalus ', and the following plant as ' Thiaspi hederaceuni '. These 

 records are about a century earlier than those given by Mansell-Pleydell, Flora 

 of Dorset. 



