DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 117 



[ ] seeds contayned in small husks. Ye root is white 



growinge deepe into ye ground, nine or ten ynches longe whereof 



2 or 3 ynches of ye upp part is very small, and sometimes devided 

 into more hedds than one. Ye midle part is Rampion-like, as 

 bigge as a goose quill, the whole herbe & root beinge broken or 

 cut doth yeld a white iuyce like milke. — MS. f. 84. 



[Dr. Stapf points out that P. spicatum with which this plant has 

 been identified has white flowers.] 



Bart si a odontites Huds. 

 Eufrasia altera Dodo. 5*° Julij & 23 Augusti 1620 



This sendeth forth from a small threddie, hard, crooked root, one 

 4 square, upright hard rough stalk, about 9 ynches or a foot high, 

 devided into many branches, which are sett one opposite against 

 another, ye leaves are small, rough, sharpe pointed, indented about 

 ye edges, comonly hanginge or bowinge downewards, growinge by 

 cooples, also one opposite against another, ye flowers are many 

 hooded and growe but one side of ye branches and stalks, of 

 a reddish color, with yealowish cheives in ye midle, after which 

 cometh a small round seed vessell, neare as bigge as a wheate corne, 

 wherein is contayned [ends abruptly]. — MS. f 84. 



Bastard Toadflax. TJiesiimi Jmniifiisiitn DC. 

 Anthyllis montana. hist. lug. p. 11 50. Phyto: 403. 15. an Anony- 

 mos Clus: p. 324. 5 Julij 1620 et citius et 27 Augusti 1620 



[First record for Britain of the only species of the Sandalwood 

 family known in Britain.] 

 This hath many very small round, cornered branches sometimes 

 17 or 18 from one root, which are devided into branches, growinge 

 close uppon ye ground, sometimes 7 or 8 ynches longe, whereon 

 growe very small narrowe, thick leaves out of order, one after, not 

 one against another, of a ^ or yealowish greene color, as are also ye 

 branches, of a salt tast, neare ye topps of ye branches on short foot- 

 stalks growe leaves smaller then ye other, 3 allwaies together 

 whereof one is longer then ye other two, in ye midst of these 



3 leaves groweth one small white flower, havinge 5 sharpe pointed 

 leaves, spreadinge wide open starr fashion, in ye midle whereof 

 groweth 7 small short cheives, with pale yealowe topps, after 

 cometh one small long round harde husk, contayninge a seed 

 which is white within. The root is small white, crooked, short, 

 devided into branches & threddie and is perennis. — MS. f 84. 



^ The word ' pale ' is struck out here, and the word substituted looks like 

 ' nervie '. 



