122 JOHN GOODYER 



Selinum Sij folijs \ yet wanting an English name, at length about 

 the yeere 1625 I saw Mistris Vrsiila Leigh (then servant to 

 Mistris Bilson of Mapledurham in Hampshire, and now (5 Marcij 

 1632 wife to Master William Moori7ig Schoolemaster of Peters- 

 field, a Towne neere the said Mapledurham) gather it in the 

 wheate ershes about Mapledurham aforesaid (where in such like 

 grounds it still groweth, especially in clay grounds) who told me it 

 was called Honewort. — Ger. eviac. 1017-18. 



[The remainder of the description has been printed on p. 53.] 



Yellow Bird's-nest. Alonotropa Hypopitliys L. 

 Orobanche verbascuH odore, MS. Good: 22 August 1620 



This riseth up with a soft round very brittle stalk, seldome 

 8 ynches high, sett with thinn small short scaly leaves like skynns 

 growing close to the stalk, at or very near ye top of ye stalk 

 groweth one sometimes 4 or- 5 small flowers in fashion like ye 

 flowers of Hyosciamtts Intens or of ye Cowslip every flower con- 

 sisting of 4, but most commonly of 5 leaves, growing all of one 

 height, evenly & of one proportion, & nothing like those of 

 Orobanche. In yc middle of every flower groweth a small round 

 umbo, no further out but just even with ye leaves, broad at ye top, 

 with a small hoale in the middle, and ye lower end of which groweth 

 at ye bottome of ye flower round, as bigge as a pease, so that it 

 resembleth y^ suckbottle which children use to suck their drinke 

 out of, having small chcives growing round about it with purplish 

 tops. The root is obtuse, not usually so bigge as ye stalk, with 

 very few threeds growing to it, & groweth at ye very upper face 

 of ye earth. The whole herbe, flowers stalks & leaves are at 

 their first flowring of a whitish yealowe, or strawe colour, and being 

 broken or brused smelleth like to ye roote of a Primrose. This 

 I found in a hedgerowe in a ground belonging to Droxford farme, 

 neare ye foot path that leadeth from Droxford to Waltham, and 

 took this Description ye 22 of August 1620. 



[This copy of a lost note of G.'s is written on the back of f. 249 of 

 Bannister's Herbarium Stccuvi, (Herb. Sloane) in the Botanical De- 

 partment of the British Museum, to which my attention was drawn by 

 Mr, J. Britten. 



A similar description evidently derived from this same description 

 and an engraving of the plant are given by Plot, Nai. Hist, of Oxford- 

 shire, 1677, p. 146, who was the first to find this plant in Oxfordshire. 

 Plot gives the number of flowers as ' eight or ten': he adds that ' It 

 grows at the bottoms of Trees in the woods near Stoken-Church, and 

 we find it mention'd in some MS. notes of the famous Mr. Goodyer'.l 



