DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 179 



Shrubby Suaeda. Stiaeda fruticosa Forsk. 

 Chamaepytis vermiculata. 10 Sept. 1624 



The stalks are woodie not fuller of a finger bignes, a cubite or 

 2 foot high of a blackish or dark ash color devided into many 

 branches whereon grow multitudes of small round fatt leaves of 

 y® fashion of w . . es very like those of comon stone croppe full of 

 iuyce, of a salt tast, of a darke green colour. The rootes are also 

 woodie branched of a blacker color then ye stalks. This plant 

 continueth greene continually as it seemeth, and increaseth by the 

 root growinge in thick tufifets close together. I observed no flowers 

 nor seed. — MS. f. 127, 



[A roughly written note on the back of the statement of * Tenth 



mony ' received by Edward Cole in 1608. See p. 373.] 



Common Spleen wort. Aspleniiim Trichomanes L. 

 Trichomanes mas. — Jan. 1624 



' Mr. Goodyer saith that in January 1624, he saw enough to lade 

 an horse growing on the bancks in a lane, as he rode between 

 Rake and Headly in Hampshire neere Wollmer Forest.' — Ger. 

 emac. 1146. 



C o w b a n e. Cicicta virosa L. 

 Sium alteram olusatri facie. 16 Sept. 1625 



Found by Mr. Goodyer in the ponds about Moore Parke {Ger. 

 emac. 257) and at Denham in Hertfordshire in standinge motes sine 

 caule.— 71/5. f. 58. 



Knotted Pearlwort. Sagina nodosa Meyer. 

 Alsine palustris foliis tenuissimis. 12 Aug. 1626 



This hath a great number of very small grasse-like leaves, 

 growing from the root, about an inch long, a great deale smaller 

 and slenderer than small pinnes ; amongst which spring up many 

 small slender round smooth firme branches some handfull or 

 handfull and halfe high, from which sometimes grow a few other 

 smaller branches, whereon at certaine ioynts grow leaves like the 

 former, and those set by couples with other shorter comming forth 

 of their bosomes ; and so by degrees they become shorter and 

 shorter towards the top, so that toward the top this plant somwhat 

 resembleth Thynmm diirius. The flowers are great for the slender- 

 nesse of the plant, growing at the tops of the branches, each flower 

 consisting of five smal blunt roundish topped white flowers, with 

 white chives in the middest. The seed I observed not. The root is 

 small, growing in the myre with a few strings. This groweth 

 plentifully on the boggy ground below the red Well of Welling- 



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