6o JOHN GOODYER 



them with such as they shall desire which growe wild with us in 

 England or in our gardens ; those in my Catalogue are all con- 

 tayned in Pena his Adversaria, I have quoted the page that there 

 may be no mistakinge. And I entreatc you to desire so much of 

 those that send me any seeds to name the Author and the page 

 of his booke that wrightes of them for every seed — all sort he 

 sends, if not written of, to say so. This way is the triall of an 

 herborist, and will save me a greate deale of paines ; by gods helpe 

 I will doe the like to them for those seeds I shall send. Thus 

 making bold to trouble you uppon your kind promise, wishing you 

 a prosperous journey, — I rest 



Yours to my power — 



[MS. f. 132 

 [The catalogue contains the names of fifty-one plants with 

 references to Lobel and Pena, Adversaria.'\ 



16 January 1631. 



Mr. Wray, I have made bold to send this inclosed letter to 

 you, I entreate you to convey him to Mr. Langrish if he be yet in 

 England, if gone over to send him after him if it may be done 

 with convenience, if not pray send him back to me againe. It was 

 his desire when he was with us in the contrey that I should send 

 this letter to you for him. Thus remayning ready to doe as much 

 and more for you as it be in my power, I rest 



Your loving friend 



[MS. f. 132 



Both of these letters are in Goodyer's handwriting. 

 The identity of Mr. Wray is a matter of doubt. In the 

 D. N. B. are mentioned two members of a Yorkshire 

 family of the name, of. whom Sir J. Wray (i 586-1655) is 

 known to have spent 1603-6 in foreign travel, which is 

 rather early for our present purpose, and the Captain Wray, 

 who with John Evelyn in 1646 found rare simples growing 

 on the Euganean Hills, is rather too late. 



1632 



The doctrine of the fixity of species so tenaciously held 

 in after years by Linnaeus and his school formed no part 

 of the science of Goodyer and his contemporaries, or of the 

 ancients. The artificial production of new varieties was 



