74 JOHN GOODYER 



prosperity of the iron industry in Sussex, and although the 

 connexion between iron smelting- or forging and the count}' 

 flora may not appear very intimate, yet it is far closer than 

 might be supposed. In 1607 there were, or had lately 

 been, nearly 140 hammers and furnaces for iron in Sussex 

 alone, and each of them spent ' in every twenty-four hours 

 two, three, or foure loades of charcoal, which in a yeare 

 amounteth to an infinit quantitie'.^ About the year 1640 

 some 1,300 cords of wood were being used at one works 

 alone, and the woodlands were in danger of beintr lost 



Jovd's oak, the warlike ash, vein'd elm, the softer beech. 

 Short hazel, maple plain, light asp, the bending wych. 

 Tough holly, and smooth birch, must altogether burn, 

 What should the builder serve, supplies the forger's turn. 



Drayton, Polyolbion (16 12). 



The botanical results of the journey are noted on the 

 same page. 



Dentaria baccifera. [Coral-root. Dentaria bulbifera L.] 



At Mayfield in a wood of Mr. Stephen Penckhurst, called High- 

 wood, and in another wood of his called Foxholes. 



Oxyacantha in Rumney Mersh neare the house of Mr. John 

 Snave the place called Whey street, flours at about Xmas 1605 in 



November. 



[MS. f. 62 



Elsewhere he noted ' Dentaria bulbifera Lo. 687, G. 833, 

 in Foxholes wood in Mayfeilde parish 6 Aug. 1634', 

 which fixes the date of his tour.- 



On 9 August at Buttersworth Hill he collected ' Ferrum 

 equinum Germanicum siliquis in summitate ' with ripe seed. 

 {Hippocrepis coniosa L.) For the year 1636 we have onl}- 

 a List of ' Virginia seeds reed, from Mr. Morrice 18 March ' 

 (P- '^il'^^ ^^i^it in the case of this document, which is in the 

 handwriting of John Parkinson, we cannot be sure that it 

 came into Goodyer's possession at so early a date. 



' Nordcn, Suri'eyor'' s Duilogue, Suss. Anh. Coll. ii. 192. 

 * I have suggested elsewhere that the little colony of Coral-root near the 

 Church Meadow at Droxford may have sprung from roots of his planting. 



