CORRECTIONS TO JOHNSON'S GERARD 71 



to him' {Gcr. emac. 275). Nor did Goodyer's criticisms 

 cease when the ' emaciilated' Gerard appeared. Among 

 his notes are four pages of suggested emendations to the 

 first twenty-two chapters of the book, which are character- 

 istic of the accuracy and carefulness of his work. 



Goodyer's Corrections to Johnson's Gerard's Herbal. 



The first booke. Ca. I. 

 Description of Comon Aleadowe Grasse. 



p. 1,1. 2 from boitoju. For light read smooth. 



p. 2. Tymc. I have scene it flowringe in the beginninge of March A". 1 61 9. 

 Names. After aypcoaLs read, And this particular meadowe grasse is 

 called of Theophrastus Troa, as Bauhinus hath it in his Phytopinax, 

 pag. 4. 

 Nature, Number that which is spoken for the nature amongest the 

 vertues for indeed Pena afifirmeth that the seed of hay beinge 

 beaten forth, many Physicians doe use for the stopping of the 

 inward parts, beinge druncke : and applied to the dissolvinge of 

 hard tumors and wind, 

 p. 3. Vertues. Theis vertues doe properlie and trewlie belonge to Grainen 

 caninum pag. 22. 



D. It is apparent that Fernelius, li. 4, ca. 4 de methodo medendi, 

 meaneth the roots of Gratnen canimon to have theis vertues. 

 Ca. 2. Names. L'obell calls the first of theis grasses, Gramen mifiijmun 

 Xerampelinum, and Xerampelinus color is a color somewhat ruddie, and 

 therefore this name cannott belonge to White dwarfe grasse. 

 Ca. 3. Natnes. He mistaketh, for that which L'obell calleth Agrorum venti 

 spica, and Gramen agrorum, is this 2 kind called here called Gramen 

 harimdinaceuvi. 



He mistaketh the 2 grasse also for it is not L'obell but Tabernaemontanus 

 that calleth it Gramen haricfidinaceiim. 

 The titles over the figures I would amend thus : 



1. Gramen pratensc vulgatius. Common Meddow Grasse. 



2. Gramen minus vulgatius. Small Common grasse. For the description 

 sheweth it not to grow in Meddowes. 



The figures are better in L'obell's I cones, p. i, which are the same with 

 Dodoneus in Latjme of the laste edition, to which you may refer them. 



Description. Dodoneus describeth not the particular Meddow grasses but in 

 generall only, therfore you shall doo well to examyn the descripcon both of the 

 first and second, by the Advs. & the Observ. unlesseyou cann add any notorious 

 difference in them from other grasses, out of your own observation. 

 Ca. 4. Both their descriptions are in Dutch & in no Author that I have, and 



quere for what grasse the figure under the title of Gramen maius aquaticum 



must serve. 

 Ca. 5. The description of Gramen Sorghittum is also in Duch. Somethinge 



may be added to the description of the root of Calamogrostis, if the worth 



of the grasse deserve it, & you thinke it pertinent. 



