146 JOHN GOODYER 



Thistle, that is to say, the stalkes are round, straked, somewhat 

 woolly, with narrow skinny prickly edges three or foure foot high, 

 divided into many branches, whereon grow long leaves, deeply 

 divided, full of white milke-like strakes and sharpe prickles by the 

 edges : the flowers grow on the tops of the stalks and branches, 

 forth of small heads, commonly turning downwards, of the bignesse 

 of an Olive, set with very small slender sharpe pricks, containing 

 nothing but small purple chives, spreading abroad like those of 

 lacea, with some blewish chives in the middle : the seed followeth, 

 inclosed in downe, and is small and grayish like the seed of other 

 Thistles, but it is as clammy as Bird-lime, jl The whole plant 

 perisheth at Winter, and reneweth it selfe by the falling of his seed. 

 I finde not that this is written of. It was first gathered by Boelms 

 in Spaine, and imparted unto M''. William Coys, who friendly gave 

 me seeds thereof. — MS. f. 105 ; Ger. cmac. 1627. 



Woolly Thistle. Cniciis criophorus L. 

 Carduus Eriocephalus, Corona fratrum quorundam. 13 Augusti 162 1 

 It is the 6*'' in Ger. p. 900. 



This thistle hath many leaves at the beginninge spread on the 

 ground bigge longe very much devided very pricklie white under- 

 neath but greene above and somewhat rough ech leafe havinge as 

 it were fower rowes of small leaves betwene which groweth uppe 

 a stalk 3 or 4 foot high somewhat woollie thick straked devided 

 into many branches sett with leaves like to those which spread 

 uppon the ground but lesser uppon the topps of the branches 

 growe greate hedds with many thornie prickles and so cumpassed 

 about or fraught with woollines like Spiders webbs that the prickles 

 doc only a little appeare, the hedds openinge themselves comes 

 out the flowers consisting of many purple cheives, whereunto 

 succeedeth the seed inclosed with downe, shininge soniethinge 

 longe as in many other thistles. The roote is longe with many 

 little thredds, above an ynch thick Russett without. It seedeth 

 not till two or three yeres after the sowinge, and most comonly 

 perisheth after it hath borne seed. 



II I found this wild neare London highwaie on the east parte of 

 Haliborne in Hampsheire, 1617. And also in the highwaie neare 

 Abington leadinge towards Oxford the 2 of July 1622. — MS. f. 105. 

 [See also under 29 June 1621.] 



Erodiimi gruinuvi Willd. 

 Geranii Boeticae, species Boelii. 14 Aug. 1621 



This hath at the becrinnine manv bro.id leaves, indented about 



