DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 123 



Toothwort. Lathraea sqtianiaria L. 

 Anblatum Dod. in fol. p. ^^'>, ; Math. 689 (9). 15 Apr. 162 1 



Dentaria maior sine d^vXXos Clus: p. cxx. 



From the root riseth uppe 2 or 3 sometimes more slender brickie 

 stalks, hairy & full of iuyce, like those of Orobanche, 6 or 7 ynches 

 longe, garnished with many flowers thick sett together not much 

 unlike those of Satyrion or Orobanche, which doe all bend or looke 

 that way which the stalk bendeth or leaneth. On ye back side growe 

 2 rowes of leaves, or rather small whitish skinne-like scales, and 

 also amongst ye flowers there growe the like leaves : the flowers 

 past there come small hedds wherein is contayned very small seed 

 the stalk soone perisheth, and leaveth the root in y® ground which 

 is composed of whitish scales like teeth. The stalks and flowers 

 when they growe in darke shadowie woods, are of a purplish color, 

 but when they growe where the sunne cometh on them, they have 

 no purple at all. 



The scales on the root are not sharpe pointed as Clusius, Lobel 

 & Dodo: pictureth them, but round topped, as Math: hath best of 

 . all by his figure expressed them. — AfS. f. 87. 



[This note is written on the back of an uncompleted order to the 

 Overseers of the Poor, dated Southwick 1621.] 



Cachryes. 28 Apr. 1621 



[See under 9 May 1622.] 



Juniper. yimipei-iis communis L.of^ 

 luniperus sterilis. 15 Mali 162 1 



This shrub is in the manner of growing altogether like the 

 luniper tree that beareth berries, only the upper part of the leaves 

 of the youngest and tenderest bowes and branches are of a more 

 reddish greene colour : the flowers grow forth of the bosoms of the 

 leaves, of a yellowish colour, which never exceed three in one row, 

 the number also of each row of leaves : each flower is like to 

 a small bud, more long than round, never growing to the length 

 of a quarter of an inch, being nothing else but very small short 

 crudely chives, very thicke and close thrust together, fastened to 

 a very small middle stem, in the end turning into small dust, which 

 flieth away with the winde, not much unlike that of Taxus sterilis : 

 on this shrub is never found any fruit. — Ger. emac. 1629. 



Curly Pond weed. Potamogeton crispiis L. 



Tribulus aquaticus minor, quercus floribus [uvae]. 2 Junii 1621 



This water herbe bringeth forth from the root, thin, flat, knottie 



stalkes, of a reddish colour, two or three cubits long, or longer, 



according to the depth of the water (which when they are drie, are 



