158 JOHN GOODYER 



Briza maxima L. 

 Gramen tremulum maximum. 13 Sept. 1621 



an Phyto. p. 10. No. xxxviii. Gramen lupuH glumis Boclij. 



This hath many small round smooth ioynted stalks, 2 or 3 foot 

 high, with longe broade smooth leaves like those of otes or barley, 

 at and neare the toppe of cch stalk groweth scatteringlie or some- 

 what farr apart, about 7 or 8 flatt eares the topps hanginge down- 

 wards, about 3 quarters of an ynch longe, and a quarter of an ynch 

 broad, made of 2 rowes of fine thinn scales, curiouslie foldinge one 

 within another, verie like those of the comon Phallaris pratensis 

 but 8 times bigger, which eares in a close roome you cannott hold 

 so still, but they will wagge and tremble, their footstalks beinge so 

 longe and small, no bigger then small haires. The seed is verie 

 small, flatt and browne, in a manner round, one seed and no more 

 inclosed at the inner end of ech scalie huske. The root is made 

 of small white thredds, and pcrisheth when, the seed is ripe. 

 Jl The seeds also of this grasse were given by Boelius to Mr. William 

 Coys by the name of Gramen lupuli glumis, who afterwards in 

 Anno 1620 sent seeds thereof to me. — MS. f. 99. 



Lactuca virosa L. 

 Lactuca silvestris vera ingrato odore. 13 Sept. 1621 



Hist. lug. p. 547, optima figura. Phyto. p. 202 N'^ xii. 



This wild lettise hath at the first many broad leaves spread 

 uppon the ground, like to garden lettice leaves, whiter on the 

 underside then above, sometimes a foot longe and 5 yrtches broad, 

 broadest neare the toppe, with a greate ribbe or sinewe underneath 

 full of sharpe pricks, and many other small branches sinewes full 

 also of little pricks, very little nicked and crisped by the sides, 

 but nothinge at all gashed, yet also full of small pricks, amongst 

 which groweth uppe a greate upright round stiff prickley browne 

 reddish stalk, full of white pith like that of the elder, usuallie 5 or 

 6 foot high, (sometimes 10 foot high as I observed this yere 1621) 

 devided into many parts or branches, on the lower parte whereof 

 groweth leaves like the former, but upwards on the stalk they are 

 smaller shorter without footstalks, gashed or devided with deepe 

 devisions. The topps of the stalks and branches are garnished 

 with manic small yealowe flowers, like in forme and bignes to those 

 of the common lettice, flowringe one after another, which maketh 

 it longe in flowringe : the flowers past there succeed flatt blackish 

 seed like to lettice seed, with downe at the toppe and is caried 

 away with the wind and rcncwcth itself by the fallinge thereof^ 



