HOW'S MS. RECORDS 1650-6 293 



Nymphaea foHis hederaceis. Qu. Stevens, 



[Species of Carduus, Plantago, and Echium from Browne. See p. 302.] 



Prunella vulg: fl. al. incarnato et fl. purpure'o. 

 in Chappell on ye heath. Bobert. 



Stevens his Becabunga maior Plantago Aquat. latif. maior. 



Geranium columbinum foliis magis dissectis, pediculis longissimis flore 

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

 described or pictured yt I find. John Goodyer. Q. ye place of growth, 

 vid. Phyt. 47. 



Erysimum ii Tab. Q. locum. 



growes in ye streetes neere white chappell east from Algate London. 

 J. Goodyer. 



Anonymos aquatica rubida, foliis Anagallidis flore luteo. This growes in 

 a little lake in a heath neere Petersfeild in Hamshire, in a hott summer 

 some parts of ye lake are drie in August, sometimes before, there and 

 then ye flowers are to bee seene. 



Holosteum perpusillum growes in ye same lake ' in ye East part of ye said 

 heath greene all ye winter under water, and flowers when ye water 

 is vanished in August, and sometimes much sooner. I first observed 

 this plant in a pond neare Holburie in ye new Forrest in Hamshire. 

 J. Goodyer. 

 ^ The waters of this lake this 2 of June 1656 about 4 of ye clocke in ye 



afternoone was well neere as warme as ye Bathwater at Bath in Summersetshire 



although ye day was cloudy. 



Holosteum juncifolium repens Goodyeri copiose inveni in Comit: Surriae 

 juxta Purbright (an diff: a priore, Qu. Goody). 



But How's good intentions for a revised edition of his Flora were 

 not destined to bear fruit. Chance appears to have cast the Lobel 

 manuscripts in his way : he purchased them with his own money, 

 but his store of vital energy was unequal to the task of producing 

 a second Phytologia Britannica. 



The circumstances of his dealing with these manuscripts have 

 been often described. A contemporary account of the matter is 

 given by the Rev. J. Ward in his Commonplace Book: 'Dr. How 

 hath put out a piece showing what Plants Parkinson stole out of 

 a manuscript of Lobel's wch. never was put out, but came by chance 

 to Dr. Modesy's [= Morison's] hand.' How has been universally 

 reproved for the violence of his language, re Parkinson, first by 

 Pulteney and then by later historians, who, however, quote his 

 remarks with some gusto. 



If How had found the Lobel MSS. in anything like the disorder 

 in which they were when I first saw them, and if he attributed the 

 mutilations to Parkinson, his expressions might be considered as 



