i84 JOHN GOODYER 



panic of small blacke fibres like haires growing thereunto. The 

 stalkes spring from the roots in severall places, in number variable, 

 according to the length und encreasc of the root ; I have scene 

 small plants have but one or two, and some bigger plants have 

 fourteene or fifteenc : they have but a two-fold division, the stalke 

 growing from the root, and the nerve bearing the leaves : the 

 stalke is about five, six, or seven inches long, no bigger then 

 a bennet or small grasse stalke, one side flat, as are the male 

 Femes, the rest round, smooth, and green. The first paire of nerves 

 grow about three inches from the root, and so do all the rest grow 

 by couples, almost exactly one against another, in number about 

 eight, nine, or ten couples, the longest seldome exceeding an inch 

 in length. The leaves grow on those nerves also by couples, eight 

 or nine couples on a nerve, without any nickcs or indentures, of a yel- 

 lowish greene colour. This Feme may be said to be like Polypodinm 

 in his creeping root, like the male Feme in his stalke, and like the 

 female Feme in his nerves and leaves. I could finde no seed-scales 

 on the backesides of any of the leaves of this Feme. Many yeares 

 past I found this same in a very wet moore or bog, being the land 

 of Richard Attsten, called Whitrow Moore, where Peate is now 

 digged, a mile from Petersfield in Hampshire ; and this sixth of 

 July, 1633, I digged up there many plants, and by them made this 

 description. I never found it growing in any other place: the 

 leaves perish at Winter, and grow up againc very late in the 

 Spring. — MS. f. 140 ; Ger. emac. 1135-6. 



[There is a sketch by Goodyer of a fern on the same page as this 

 description]. 



Ulnms cavipestris Sm., U. montana Stokes, U. glabra W\\\&x, 

 U. minor Miller. 

 Elms. '^^'i'i 



[For Goodyer's descriptions of the four species of Elm see p. })%^ 



Among the undated notes and species contributed by Goodyer 

 to Johnson's second edition of Gerard were the following. The 

 descriptions must therefore be earlier than 1633 and several may 

 date from c. i6ai. 



Marsh Helleborine. Epipactis paliistris Crantz. 

 Palma Christi, radice repente. [Before 1633] 



' It growes also plentifullie in Hampshire within a mile of a 

 market Towne called Petersfield, in a moist meadow named Wood- 

 mead, neere the path leading from Petersfield. towards Keryton.' 



[Johnson {Ger. emac. 227) prints this locality without acknowledge- 

 ment, but it was doubtless communicated to him by Goodyer. The 



