i88 JOHN GOODYER 



colour, & does not fall ofife as the leaves of other flowers doe but 



continue on till and after the seed is ripe. 



The seed is contayned in that huske, & is white & as small as 



dust. 



The whole herbe is of a reddish colour, and flotes in or uppon 



the water and prospers well when all the water is dryed from it, 



& then flowers, seldom before. I could never observe any flowers 



but on those plants from which the water was dryed away, and that 



in August. 



I have long observed this plant, as I found it growinge in the 



rivulett on the east side of Petersfield, runinge and a heathy comon 



about the middest thereof. I cannot yet tell what genus it is, nor 



what name is most proper for it. — MS. f. 141. 



[The Marsh Isnardia is one of the very rarest of Hampshire plants, 

 and Goodyer's description has not been printed before ; indeed it was 

 not known that he had noted it about a quarter of a century before 

 the date of the first ' record ' given by Townsend. After Merrett had 

 recorded Goodyer's discovery in 1666, the plant does not appear to 

 have been seen again until about 1835 ? when it was rediscovered by 

 Miss Rickman and J. Barton; 'and in the moist summer of 1848, 

 Dr. Bromfield found it plentifully (he had searched for it unsuccess- 

 fully in previous dry summers) in marshy spots, into which expanded 

 at intervals the shallow stream which drains the great pond at Peters- 

 field. I am not aware of the plant having been found at Petersfield 

 since 184S, though it has been repeatedly searched for. The shallow 

 stream above described is now so circumscribed that even during the 

 wet summer of 1879 it expanded into no marshy spots in which Isnardia 

 could have a chance of growing. I searched the stream through the 

 Common and along its course downwards for about a mile, but without 

 success. The plant is now extinct in Sussex, the only other county in 

 which it has been found in Great Britain.' ' Mr. Bolton King's patient 

 determination to rediscover the plant [in the Brockenhurst neighbour- 

 hood, where it had been found by Borrer in 1843] was rewarded by 

 finding it abundantly in 1878 in another spot in the neighbourhood.']* 



Beech. Fagus sylvatica L. 

 Fagus. Before 1650 



I found one much varying in his leaves, some were whole as those 



of the ordinary, others much jagged or divided. — Goodyer quoted 



by How, Phytologia, p. 40. 



I 650-1 656 



TJic notes on the folloiuing nitie plants occur in How's handwriting 

 in his interleaved copy of the Phytologia Britannica. They must 

 therefore have been ivritten between 16^0, lohen the book was 

 published, and 16^6, when he died. 



' Townsend, Flora Hampshire, p. 158. 



