192 JOHN GOODYER 



creepeth farr in the earth, the baike thereof beinge of a yealowish 

 redd color, & stickie hard in the midle. 



The stalks & branches die everie yere, the rootes continue manie 

 yeres. 



It usuallie growes in drie chalkie grounds, in barren places the 

 stalks are short, a foot or little longer, & needes no supporter, in 

 richer grownds they are much longer, in hedges & amongest bushes, 

 longest and needs supporters, as doe Gallium album. — MS. f. 142. 



Apium inundatum Reichb. f. 

 Sium pusillum foliis variis. 2 Junij i6^(i 



The leaves before the plants have stalkes are like those of fennell 

 but much smaller, grovvinge in abundance in the mudd within the 

 water. The stalkes are hollowe as bigge as a wheate strawe, greene 

 for the most parte sometimes reddish & a foot long or longer & 

 growe uppe amongest the leaves not upright but swimming sidelonge 

 in the water, the toppes only appearinge above it, wch at the ioynts 

 devides into severall branches. At each ioynt on the stalk within 

 the water growes one leafe, like fennell as the former, but shorter 

 & smaller, towards & on the toppes of the stalkes & branches with 

 eyther and a little above the water, or swimminge on it are leaves 

 much broader then the former, in forme & fashion to those of 

 Eruca pahistris minor [Water-Rocket ^]. Tab[ernaemontanus] 

 pictured in his Icons p. 447 ; only these have not above 2 or 3 paire 

 of small leaves on the midle ribbe of ech leafe, & that hath 4, 5 or 

 more. 



At the ioynts of the stalks towards their toppes growe the foote- 

 stalks about an ynch of length, ech footstalk for the most parte 

 devided towards the toppe into 2 parts, on ech of which parts 

 comonly groweth 2, 3, 4 or 5 small white flowers, clusterwise 

 together, ech flower havinge 4 small sharpe pointed leaves, ech leafe 

 beinge no bigger then a small pins head. 



In their places come 2, 3, 4 or 5 seeds as bigge, and of the forme 

 of Caraway or parsley seeds clusteringe also together. 



The rootes are as small as threeds & growe at the ioynts of the 

 stalks & fasten them selves in the mudd whereby it mightelie 

 increaseth. It flowers about the beginningc & midle of May. 



This plant growes comonly in small lakes, & water plashes, but 

 not described before that I know of. 2 Junij 1656 I made this 

 description when the plant hadd almost done floweringe, & much 

 of the seed was of its full growth.— iJ/5. f. 143. 



* Nasturtmin sylvcstre R.Br. 



