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smal narrow sharpe pointed short skinny leaves, set without order, 

 very little or nothing at all wrapping or inclosing the stalke ; 

 having a spike of flowers like those of Orobanche, without tailes or 

 leaves growing amongst them: which fallen, there succeed small 

 seed-vessels. The lower part of the stalke within the ground is 

 not round like Orobanche, but slender or long, and of a yellowish 

 white colour, with many small brittle roots growing underneath 

 confusedly, wrapt or folded together like those of the common 

 Nidus avis. The whole plant as it appeareth above ground, both 

 stalkes, leaves, and flowers, is of a violet or deepe purple colour. 

 This I found wilde in the border of a field called Marborne, neere 

 H abridge in Haliborne, a mile from a towne called Alton in 

 Hampshire, being the land of one William Balden. In this place 

 also groweth wilde the thistle called Corona fratriun. — Ger. einac. 

 328 ; Druce, pp. 6-7. 



[In Dillenius' interleaved copy of Ray's Synopsis, 1724, 'cum notis 

 MSS. Lightfoot, Yalden, etc.', at the Botanic Garden at Oxford is a 

 note, ' Limodorum Austriacum found in the border of a field called 

 Marborne near Habridge in Haliborne a mile from Alton. Mr. 

 Goodyer. See Camden's Britannia. I have searched for it in vain 

 several years '. 



The identity of this plant is very doubtful. See p. 47.] 



Woolly T h is 1 1 e. Cnicns eriophorus L. 

 Corona fratrum herbar. Caput monachorum. 29 June 1621 



I found this wild in Hampshire in greate plentie by Haliborne in 

 a feild called Marborne, nere a bridge called Habridge, beinge the 

 land of Wm. Balden, & also in the next feild to it 29 Junii 1621. — 

 MS, f. s?>. 



[See under 1617 and 13 Aug. 1621 for the description.] 



Black Bryony. Tarmis communis L. 

 Bryonia nigra florens et fructum ferens. Summer i6ai 



,, florens non fructum ferens. 



This is altogether like the first described in roots, branches, and 

 leaves ; onely the foot-stalks whereon the flowers grow are about 

 eight or nine inches long : the flowers are something greater, 

 having neither before or after their flowering any berries or shew 

 thereof; but the flowers and footstalks do soone wither and fall 

 away: this I have heretofore, and now this Sommer, 1621, dili- 

 gently observed, because it hath not beene mentioned or observed 

 by any that I know. — Ger. emac. 871. 



[The first record for Hants : probably of a male plant.] 



