140 JOHN GOODYER 



codd is contayncd about jo or 1 1 round seeds, browne when they 

 are ripe, neare of the bignes of feild peason, and of the same tast. 

 The root is white and small, with abundance of thredie small side 

 branches, and perisheth at winter. 



It begineth to flower in June, and so contineweth flowringe and 

 bearinge fruite till the extreame froste. — MS. f. 91. 



[Goodyer sent a description of Pisttm quadratnm to Johnson on 

 5 March 1632, but the text printed in the Herbal diners markedly from 

 this one: cf, Ger. emac, 1198.] 



Astragalus lusitanictis Lam. 

 Astragalus marinus lusitanicus Boelii. 31 Julii 1621 



This hath five, six, or more round straked reddish hairy stalks 

 or branches, of a reasonable bignesse, proceeding from one root, 

 sometimes creeping or leaning neere the ground, and sometimes 

 standing upright, a cubit high, with many greene leaves, set by 

 certaine distances, out of order like those of Glaux vnlg-aris, but 

 lesser, every leafe being composed of fourteen or more round 

 topped leaves, a little hairy by the edges, set on each side of a long 

 middle rib, which is about nine or ten inches in length, without 

 tendrels : the flowers grow forth of the bosomes of the leaves, 

 neere the tops of the stalkes, on long round streaked hairy foot- 

 stalkes, of a very pale yellow colour, like those oi Scciiridaca minor, 

 but bigger, growing close together in short spikes, which turne into 

 spikes of the length of two or three inches, containing many small 

 three cornered cods about an inch long, growing close together like 

 those of Glaux vulgaris, each cod containing two rowes of small 

 flat foure cornered seeds, three or foure in each row, of a darke 

 yellowish or leadish colour, like to those of Secicridaca minor, but 

 three or foure times as big, of little taste : the root is small, slender, 

 white, with a few threds, and growcth downe right, and perisheth 

 when the seed is ripe. || I first gathered seeds of this plant in the 

 garden of my good friend M'". loJin Parkinson an Apothecary of 

 London, Anno 1616. — MS. f. 107 ; Ger. emac. 1627-8. 



Vicia Faba L. var. 

 Faba veterum serratis foliis Boelii. 31 Julii 1621 



This is like the other wildc Beane in stalks, flowers, cods, fruit, 

 and clasping tendrels, but it diflcrclh from it in that the leaves 

 hereof (especially those that grow neere the tops of the stalks) are 

 notched or indented about the edges like the teeth of a saw. The 

 root also perisheth when the seed is ripe. || The seeds of this wilde 

 Beane were gathered by Boelins a Low-country man. in Ba^tica 

 a part of Spainc, and by him sent to M'". William Coys, and by 



