T20 JOHN GOODYER 



contafneth a very small long seed which flieth away with the 

 winde. The root is nothing else but an infinite of small strings 

 which most hurtfuJlie spread in the ground, and by their infinite 

 increasinge destroyeth and starveth other herbes that grow neare 

 it. Its naturall place of growing. I know not, || for I had it from 

 M'. lohn Coys, and yet keep it growing in my garden. — MS. ff. 83, 

 92; G er. efuac. 4.'^i. 



[The sentence after the || is written in a hand that I believe to be 

 that of the editor, Thomas Johnson.] 



Jasonia tuber osa DC. 

 Aster conyzoides Gesneri. 



[Goodyer's note in Latin on this plant {MS. i. 83 v.) is copied from 

 Lobel, Observationes, (1576) p. 189.] 



Echinochloa Criis-galli Beauv. 

 Panicum sylvestre. Sheet. 10 Augusti 1620 



Hath very many ioynted stalks, 2 foot high or higher, whereot 

 some growe upright, and some growe sidelonge & leane towards 

 ye earth, the leaves are longe & smooth not hairie. On ye toppe 

 of ye stalks growe spikes or eares, sometimes single but comonly 

 devided into many parts, lesser shorter & thinner than those of 

 Panick, everic one whereof is composed of small short sharpe 

 pointed husks, of a browne redd color sometimes of a greenish 

 color, not [words illegible] ye stem on rib whereon they growe, but 

 growinge on ye outer side thereof; wherein is a whitish seed, 

 somewhat hard, lesse then those of Panick. The root is nothinge 

 els but white strings. — MS. f. 83 v. 



Basil. Ocimiim Basilicwn L. 

 Acinos [odoratissimum]. 12 Augusti 1620 & longe before. 



Phyto: 427 (4). Ger. 548 . 2. Math. 595 (i). 



It hath manie fower square hairie stalks proceedinge from the 

 root, sometimes two foot longe or longer, parted into a fewe 

 branches, the leaves growe on the ioynts, in wide distances by 

 cooples one opposite against another, in forme like those of wild 

 Margerom but smaller and are hairie, rough, lightlie snipt or 

 indented about the edges : the flowers are purple & resemble those 

 of Betonie, but of a lighter purple colour and growe forth of rough 

 round whorles or crownctts close above the leaves, and one allwaies 

 at the toppe of the stalk and branches, in forme like those of 

 Horehound. The flowers past the seed follovveth inclosed in those 

 whorles. The root is small threedic & lastingc. — MS. ff. 83 v., 84. 

 [This description differs essentially from that printed in Gerard. 

 Sec II Oct. 1621.] 



