396 DALE'S MSS. 



Sylva Hircynia, p. 51 ; Gerard einac, p. Hoo, and other books. At 

 any rate, it appears more likely that Dr. Dale, rather than any one 

 else, should have written them. 



Dale's botanical partnership with Goodyer dates at least from 

 1651, as is shown by the latter's entry in his copy of J. Bauhin's 

 Historia Plaiitariim. This work was purchased of Robinson on 

 15 March 165 1, and sold by Dr. Dale, then living in Long Acre, to 

 Goodyer on the 22nd for ^^"3 is. 6d. 



The Goodyerian Lists and Descriptions of British plants were 

 undoubtedly written during the sixth decade of the seventeenth 

 century. One paper is dated 22 January 1651, another April 1659, 

 and during part of this period the writer was evidently in close 

 touch with Goodyer himself. The four principal manuscripts are : 



1. Descriptions of Plants extracted from Lobel's MSS. (in Latin). 



2. A Catalogue of Grasses, foreign as well as British, with brief 

 descriptions and synonymy, comprising 203 species, written two on 

 a page, on loi leaves. 



3. A Catalogue of British plants, with synonymy, comprising 

 922 species (including 70 grasses), written four on a page (with 

 blanks), on 276 leaves. 



4. A Supplementary List of British plants comprising 153 names. 

 If these are to be regarded as different from the 922, the British 

 Flora as known to Goodyer and Dale (?) in 1659 would comprise 

 1,075 species — a figure which comes very near to the 1,050 of Ray 

 in the year 1669. How, by including varieties and exotic plants, 

 had accumulated 1,220 names in the PJiytologia of 1650. 



The work is exactly what would be expected from the author of 

 a new Phytologia. None of Dr. Dale's plants are quoted under his 

 own name in the printed Phytologia of 1650, but among How's 

 MS. additions (1650-6) we have noted 



'Acinos anglica flore albo in Salisbury feild neere Basing stoake, D. Dale.' 

 'Foeniculum at Rie. — Leucoii folii : Qii. D.' 



"^yp'^:^ ,. \ou.Yy: 



' henetio sentilis ) 



He was the first person to point out 'J uncus caulc Triangulati ' 

 (? the rare Galingale Cyperus longiis) growing at the Horse ferry at 

 Westminster and to record 'Vicia fol. graminco siliqua porrectis- 

 sima' about Tyburn and Maribonc Park. Mcrrett, who printed 

 these records in 1667,^ designates him as ' insignis Britannicus '. 



^ Merrett, Pinax, 67, 125. 



