DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 191 



Geranium columhimnn L. 

 Geranium columbinum foliis magis dissectis, pediculis longissimis. 



Aug. 1654 

 I found it wild in ye beginning of August 1654. It is not 

 described or pictured yt I find. John Goodyer. 



Ou[ery] ye place of growth and des[cription] for this and [the 

 next plant] following. 



' In several places of Hampshire. J. Goodyer.' Merrett, Pz«a;;ir45. 

 [Druce's reading of the passage giving the locality as White 

 Chapell is not justified.] 



Sisymbrium Irio L. 

 Erysimum ii Tab. Ou[aere] locum. [Before 1656] 



Grows in ye streets near White Chappell east from Aldgate, 

 London. J. Goodyer. 



[Note in How's handwriting at end of his Phytologia^ 



Bunias or ie tit ale L. 

 Rapistrum aliud non bulbosum. P. <S62. [Before 1656] 



' In the broad street by White Chappel, Mr. Goodyer.' Merrett, 

 Pinax 103. 



[Although this record was not printed before 1666, it is probable 

 that Goodyer found the plant with ' Erysimum ii ' on the same visit to 

 London. If this be so, it must have been before the date of How's 

 death in 1656.] 



Wild Madder. Rubia peregrina. 

 Rubia sylvestris. 12 Aug. 1655 



[Recorded by Turner, 1551-68.] 



The stalks are fower square, hollowe within smooth, one, two, 

 three foot high, sometimes higher, with ioynts three or fower 

 ynches apart : at the ioynt somethinge about the ground growe 

 forth two side branches & the like side branches at everie ioynt 

 upward on the maine stalk, and those branches at the ioynts send 

 forth other side branches after the same manner. At each ioynt 

 of the greater stalk growe the leaves in a circle which are smooth, 

 6, 7, 8 sometimes 9 at ech ioynt, the biggest leaves sometimes are 

 about 3 quarters of an ynch longe, and broad, at ech ioynt 



also of the branches growe such leaves, but are smaller & smaller 

 towards the toppes of the stalkes & branches. 



The flowers growe abundantlie neare the toppes of the stalkes 

 and branches, racematim, and are white, everie flower havinge 4 small 

 sharpe pointed leaves. The seeds are small, round, manie times 

 two growinge together. The rootes are small, with some threeds, 



