J 78 JOHN GOODYER 



manie yeres after beinge dryed and without iuyce. About the 

 beginning of winter they wither and are dryed, but in the 

 beginninge of springe they shoote anewe as in narrowe leaved 

 Iris, moreover it produceth not a stalk betwene the leaves 

 as the Irides, but out of the side of y'' root comes a leafe * 



stalk of the same lenght with y^ other leaves, that is sometimes 

 from the midle unto y*^ toppe is plaine and like the rest, but 

 and narrower, and as it were fashioned into a triangular stalk 

 it beginns to be extenuated and made plaine it sends forth out 

 (sometimes but very seldome two) not greater in ye beginning 

 appearinge and stanndinge up a pright [little 



partinge (or cutting) themselves acrosse when it opens itself full of 

 consistinge of fower small leaves, 

 afterwards untill it gett the lenght and thic 

 greene knobbes, in such a comelie order 

 cone of the wild pine. It hath 

 upper parte when it lies hid in ye earth, 



exceedinge white in the inner parte, distinguished * 



stronge, of a good smell, of a somewhat bitter and sharper tast, 

 endewed with many and whitish and sweet smellinge threeds 



growinge to it in ye lower parte, but it creeps and spreads 

 itself on the toppe of the earth, sendinge forth from the sides and 

 almost everie ioynt or knott yonge ones, one after another, 

 obliquely (or crookedlie) so that in a short time it takes uppe 

 a greate space. 



ai Julij [1624] 



a. two corners standing so neare together that they make a 



hoUowe like a furrow. 



b. at the upper end of the furrowe. 



c. without any footstalk. — MS. f. 125. 



* [Page torn.] 



[The date shows that this description was made from the Acorus 

 ' in flower in Mris. Mervin's garden 6'** Jiilii 1623'. — MS. f. 51.] 



Papaver Argemo7ie L. 

 Argemone capitulo longiore Ob. p. 144. 24 Julii 1623 



In Durford garden. 



S a n f o i n. Onobrychis sativa Lam. 

 Caput GaUinaceum Belgarum. 24 Julii 1624 



In flower 24 Julii 1624 between Langford & Stapleford in Wiltes 

 by ye way on ye south side of ye river. — MS. f. 52. 



