136 JOHN GOODYER 



Prickly Beet of Candy. Emcx spinosa Campd. 

 Blitum spinosum Creticum. 28 Julij 1621 



est Beta Cretica semine aculeata Bauhini. Joynt Flower-topp. 



This sendeth forth from one root many round greene straked, 

 trayling, ioynted, small branches, about a foot longe : the leaves 

 are of a light greene colour, and grow at every ioint one, somewhat 

 like the leaves of great Sorrell, but they are round topped without 

 barbes or eares below, or any manifest tast or smell, very like the 

 leaves of Beetes, but much smaller : the flowers grow clustering 

 together about the ioynts, and at the tops of the branches small 

 and greenish, each flower containing 5 or 6 very small blunt topped 

 leaves, and a few dustie cheives in the middle : which past, there 

 cometh greate prickley shrivelled seed, growing even close to the 

 root, and upwards on the ioints, each seed having three sharpe 

 prickes at the top growing sidewaies, which indeed may be more 

 properly called the huske ; which huske in the inside is of a darke 

 reddish color, and containeth one seed in forme like the seed of 

 Adonis, round at the lower end, 3 cornered towards the toppe, and 

 sharp pointed, covered over with a darke yealowish skyn ; which skyn 

 pulled away, the kerncll appeareth yealow on the outside, and 

 exceeding white within, and will with a light touch fall into very 

 small powder like meale. — MS. f. 90; Ger. einac. 1626. 



Lathyrus Ochrus DC. or L. annmis L. 

 Lathyrus aestivus flore luteo. 28 Julii 162 1 



This is like Lathyris latiore folio Lobclij, in stalks, leaves, and 

 branches, but smaller: the stalks are two or three foot long, made 

 flatt with two skyns, with 2 exceedinge small leaves growinge on the 

 stalks, one opposite against another : betweene which spring up 

 flat footstalks, an inch long, bearing two exceeding narrow sharpe 

 pointed leaves, three inches long : betweene which grow the 

 tendrels, devided into many parts at the top, and taking hold 

 therwith : the flowers are smal, and grow forth of the bosomes of 

 the leaves, on each footstalk one flower, wholly yealow, with purple 

 strakes. After each flower followeth a smooth cod, almost round, 

 two inches long, wherein is contained seven round Peason, some- 

 what rough, but after a curious manner, of the bignesse and taste 

 of field Peason, and of a darke sand color. — MS. f. 108 ; Ger. 

 einac. 1628. 



? Lathyrus Clyvienum L. 

 Lathyrus aestivus Baeticus flore coeruleo Boiilii. [28 Julii 1621] 



This is also like Lathyris latiore folio Lobelij, but smaller, yet 



