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in the New Forest, growing in a little lake in the east 

 part of a heath near Petersfield, ' The water of this lake 

 this 2 of June 1656 about 4 of y^ clocke in y^ afternoone 

 was well neere as warme as y^ Bath-water at Bath in 

 Summersetshire although y^ day was cloudy'. ' In a hott 

 summer some parts of y^ lake are drie in August, some- 

 times before, and then the plant, which had been green, all 

 the winter under water, flowered '. Immediately recognizing 

 the novelty of the plant, he described it as ' Anonymos 

 aquatica rubida, foliis Anagallidis flore luteo '. 



1657-9 



In June 1657 he described what appears to be our 

 Smooth Tare [Vicia tetraspcrma)^ but as no locality is 

 stated, we cannot claim his note as being the first evidence 

 for the occurrence of this plant in Hampshire. 



The following information on a scrap of paper was sent 

 him by an acquaintance : 



5° March 1657 



At Judge Rumseys 3 miles from Abergevenny croweth the Sweet 

 Willowe, as I remember the plant I saw, was called 



Robert Baskett. 



To this a note is added in Goodyer's hand : 



9° Apr. 1658 — Judge Rumsey lives in Glamorganshire by the rela- 

 tion of Gryffin Morgan of Malmesbury, a glasse carrier. [MS. f. 147 



But though able to move about in his own county, where 

 he found the alien Xanthium Strumarium in 1659 (his last 

 recorded find), we imagine that he now felt himself too old 

 to herborize in Wales. 



But the record would have been valued by him as an 

 addition to the last work on which he is known to have 

 been engaged, the compilation of a new British Flora. 

 How's Phytologia Briiamiica, published in 1650, was very 

 imperfect, as any first attempt at so comprehensive a work 

 is bound to be, and no one would have been in a better 

 position to recognize its many errors and deficiencies than 



