DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 157 



five ynches broad and 5 ynches longe, bluntlie indented by the 

 edges, almost round at the toppe : amongest which rise uppe square 

 hairie kneed stalkes about a foot or cubite high, bearinge leaves 

 by cooples one opposite against another, like the former but lesser 

 and more sharper pointed, sometimes with two little leaves like 

 eares growinge on the footstalks of the leaves,, of no ill or stronge 

 smell, the stalks devide them selves into braunches at the bosomes 

 of the leaves. The flowers are of a blewish purple colour (lesser 

 then the flowers of Clarie, and scarce bigger then Lavender flowers) 

 growinge in whorles to the verie toppes of the stalks and braunches 

 makinge longe spikes, which comonlie bowe or turne their toppes 

 downewardes, without anie leaves growinge amongest them. The 

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The roote is greate of a finger bignes growinge downeward into 

 the earth, a foot deepe or more, with a fewe side braunches, black 

 without, hard lastinge, yerelie sendinge forth newe braunches. 



It groweth not wild in England, the seed hereof I receaved from 

 Mr. William Coys with many other, in Anno 1620. — MS. ff. 1 1, 1 15. 

 [Rough draft of a description sent to Johnson, March 5, 1633, but 

 not acknowledged by him.] — MS. f. 11. 



Cynosiivus echinahis L. 

 Gramen cristatum Baeticum Boelij. 13 Sept. 1621 



Hath many round ioynted stalks growinge from one root, 

 a cubite or 2 foot high, and greate longe leaves like Barley. 

 At the toppe of ech stalk groweth one eare or rather a one sided 

 bunch, an ynch broad and somethinge above an ynch longe, onlie 

 growinge on one side of the toppe of the stalk, so that it maketh 

 as it were half an eare, with small queveringe cheive-like flowers, 

 like those of other grasse, and, verie thick sett with small whitish 

 haires makinge the whole eare appeare like a catts beard ; the seed 

 is small longe and brownish somewhat like that of Psyllium, but 

 nothinge so black, inclosed in very small whitish bearded husks. 

 The root is verie small beinge nothinge but verie small white 

 threddie strings, and perisheth when the seed is ripe. || This grasse 

 is not yet described that I find of. The seeds were gathered by 

 Boelius a lowe Contrey man in Baetica a parte of Spaine and 

 given to that diligent preserver of simples Mr. William Coys often 

 with very good cause remembred, who imparted seeds hereof to 

 me in Anno 1620. — MS. f. 99. 



[Goodyer himself noted that this species was * Gramen alopecu- 



roides spica aspera ' and that it was found ' by y^ adiacent pts of 



Shepey'. MS. 11, f. 133. Seep. 59.] 



