DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 189 



Cardamine impatiens L. 

 Cardamine flosculis minoribus, sive impatiens. 

 From rills and ditch sides about Bath, 



Dr. Johnson was mistaken in saying yt this was Siutn minimum. 

 Alp. I have both ye plants. I admonished him of this error but 

 he lived not to amend it. J. Goodyer. — p. 31. 

 [Johnson died in 1644.] 



Polypodinm Dryopteris L. 

 Dryopteris, Trag. Tree-fern. 



It growes on a bottome called Rogers Deane in ye parish of 

 Faringdon in Hampshire, about a mile and a half from ye church, 

 a furlong from one John Trybes dwelling house on ye north east 

 part of ye house about 2 miles from Alton about a mile north east 

 from Dogford Wood. Great antient beeches kept ye sunne from 

 shining on ye Plants. Ann. 1654 many of those trees were cut 

 downe. The Plants ye sunna shone on y' summer '54 were short, 

 ye leaves growing on short stemms neere ye earth as Tabernaemont 

 pictureth it, p. 501 tom 2 under ye title of Filicula petraea fem. 3. 

 Those yt grew under ye trees were much higher agreable to Tragus 

 figure p. 538. John Goodyer.' — p. o^^. 



Ye least Furze. Ulex nanus Forst. 

 Park. des. of Genista spinosa minor p. 1003 accords not with 

 ye Least Furze ; ours beares no leaves at all. They are but ye first 

 sproutings of ye thornes or prickles, even as of ye great furze (bee 

 hee what hee will y* willes ye contrary) ye cods have furze, even as 

 ye cods of ye greater furze. I cannot find from whence Park, rec*^ 

 his fig. I suppose it was made by imagination. J. Goodyer. — 



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[Dr. Stapf, who has kindly assisted in the determination of Goodyer's 



furzes, writes that in his opinion and in that of Mr. Sprague Genista 

 spinosa minor Park., p. 1003, is entirely dubious. The figure in 

 Parkinson goes back to the 1588 edition of Tabernaemontanus, where 

 it is meant to illustrate Nepa Theophrasti of Pena and Lobel, but 

 Tabernaemontanus himself says he is not sure whether it fits that plant. 

 There is no indication where it was drawn from. Lobel's Nepa Theo- 

 phrasti is evidently Ulex pai'viflorus, and it may be that the figure is 

 just a very bad illustration of that species. This Ulex would probably 

 not be hardy in England.] 



G o r s e. Ulex Eui-opaeus L. 

 Genista spinosa flore albo Park, j 003. 

 [A whitish flowered variety.] 



