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every flower containing five leaves, which are crompled or wrinkled, 

 and do not grow plaine : the fruit followes, first green, and after- 

 wards blew, everie berry composed of one or two graines, seldome 

 obove foure or five growing together, about the bignesse of corans ; 

 wherein is contained a stony hard kernell or seed, and a iuyce of 

 the colour of Claret wine, contrarie to the common Ricbus or 

 Bramble, whose leaves are white underneath : the berries being 

 ripe are of a shining blacke colour, and every berry containes 

 usually above forty graines closely compacted and thrust together. 

 The. root is wooddy and lasting. This growes common enough in 

 most places, and too common in ploughed fields. — Ger. emac. 

 1271-2. 



Lesser Celandine. Rajumciihis Ficaria L. 

 Chelidonium minus, Lo. 593, Ger. 669. 10 March 1620 



Inc. fl. [flowers open] 10 Marcii 1620. — MS. f. 52 V. 



Dandelion. Taraxacum officinale Willd. 

 Dens leonis vulgi, Lo. 232, Ger. 228. 10 March 1620 



Inc. fl. [flowers open] 10 Marcii 1620. — AIS. f. ^'^. 



Marsh Parsley Drop wort. Oenanthe Lachenalii 

 Gmel. 

 Oenanthe angustifolia Lob. Obs. p. 420. 19 May 1620 



[Identified by Druce as the first British Record.] 

 This 19 of May 1620 I found this wild in East Hoo in ye parish 

 of Subberton about 7 miles from Petersfield in Hampshire in a 

 hedgerowe about a flightshott from ye then dwelling house of 

 Mr. William Browne on ye south part of ye said house and ye 

 18 of June 1620 I saw it there in flower. — G. quoted by How in 

 MS. note to Phytologia, p. 81. 



[Merrett, Pinax, p. 84, gives the locality as East How. Druce gives 

 the date as 28 June, but the figure is more like 18.] 



Lungwort. Pulmonaria angustifolia L. 

 Pulmonaria foliis Echii. 25 May 1620 



Found, May 25 Anno 1620 flowering in a Wood by Holbury 

 House in the New Forest in Hampshire. — Gov. emac. 809. 



Linaria minor Desf. 

 Antirrhinum minus. 20 Junii 1620 



The stalks are small, round, hairy & branched, about 4 or 5 

 ynches high, ye leaves are small, smooth, blunt topped & like 

 to Hissope leaves, y® flowers are small fashioned like ye greate 

 Antirrhinum, ye upper leaves whereof are of an ill favored purple 

 color, & ye under leaves somewhat whitish, havinge a very little 



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