LISTS OF EXOTIC PLANTS. 



The greater number of Lists of Plants in Goodyer's handwriting 

 are of English indigenous and garden plants, and are written on 

 odd pieces of paper of quarto width. Among them are several 

 -lists of foreign plants (now bound with Goodyer MS. ii), very 

 closely written on narrow slips of paper, 3 or 4 inches in width, 

 which have become crumpled, rubbed, and foul with dirt, as if they 

 had been carried about in a pocket. They have all the appearance 

 of hand-lists of desiderata, such as a London merchant might have 

 furnished for the use of travellers visiting foreign regions, who 

 required in compact form, catalogues of local plants with native 

 names. Some of the lists were obviously restricted to tropical 

 produce of economic value : others may be regarded as among the 

 earliest exotic floral lists known in manuscript. The handwriting 

 of certain of the lists appears to be that of John Parkinson, and 

 their date to be about 1636, but several are no doubt earlier. 



These early lists with their flavour of foreign travel recall 

 Rauwolff's allusion to ' the great Troubles and Dangers those 

 that have written of Exotick Plants have sustained and incurred 

 in their foreign Peregrinations, would not be grievous to me, did 

 I not fear that it would extend this Dedication to too disproportionate 

 and tedious a length '.^ 



France. List of ^i plants taken from and zvith references to 

 LoheV s Adversaria, written by Goodyer on the back of the draft 

 of a letter dated 16 Jan. J631. Not printed. [MS. f. 132 v. 



Glossary of French names of Plants^ evidently abstracted by 

 Parkinson from P. Bellonins De neglecta Cultura Stirpium [issued 

 with Clnsitis Exotica), pp. 224, 226. Not printed. [MS. f. 156 v. 



List of Plants, mostly from Italian Localities, abstracted from 

 Camerarius, Hortus medicus et philosophicus 1588, presumably by 

 J. Parkinson. 



Abutilon Indicum. ( f . 162 



Acacalis. Alisma Matth. 



Adonis flora pallido in Thuringis segetibus e Suevia. 



Alnus nigra, Frangula. Siler Plinii non multis (?). 



Amygdalo persicus pulpa persicum nucleus aniygdalum sapit. 



' Epistle Dedicatory to Kauwolft's Travels in Ray's Collection of Curious 

 Travels ^ 1693. 



