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1593 he was chosen professor of Botany at Leyden, and resided there 

 in srreat reputation till his death in 1609. His principal publications 

 are his Earionim aliquot Stirpium per Hisimnias ohservaiarum Hisloria, with 

 about 220 admirable woodcuts, printed at Antwerp in 1576, and his 

 Ttariorum aliquot Stirpium per Pannoniam, Austriam et vicinas quasdam 

 provincias observatarum Ilistoria, an octavo volume with above 350 wood- 

 cuts, published at Antwerp in 1583. In 1601 these two volumes were 

 republished in folio with some additions of garden plants, a treatise 

 on Fungi, some of his letters, and Pena's account of Mount Baldus. 

 This is the edition in common use. In it are the two Berkshire 

 records before alluded to. 

 (iooDYER. John Goodyer, of Mapledurham in Hampshire, who, according to 

 Britten and Bovilger's Biographical Index of British Botanists, flourished 

 from 1597 to 1652, is referred to by Gerard in the Herball and by 

 Johnson in the preface to his edition of Gerard as ' the only assistant 

 I had in this worke, which was Mr. John Goodyer — from whom 

 I received many accurate descriptions, and some other observations 

 concerning plants; the which (desirous to give every man his due) 

 I have caused to be so printed as they may be distinguished from the 

 rest.' Parkinson, in the Theatrum, also quotes him. The reference to 

 John Gordier on p. 708 is almost certainly a misprint for Goodyer. 

 Pai'kinson, loco citato, says of Gerayvintn saxatile {G. lucidum) that ' it was 

 found in our owne countrey by Mr. John Gordier, a great lover ... of 

 plants ; who besides this hath found in our countrey many other 

 plants not imagined to grow in our Land. I wish,' he adds, ' there 

 were manj^ more of his minde, that not hindering their affaires at 

 spare times would be industrious to search out and know what the 

 ground bringeth forth, where their occasions are to be.' This record 

 Pulteney in his Sketches on p. 135 ascribes to Goodyer, and on p. 153 

 to Gordiei". Britten and Boulger in the Index give a separate heading 

 to Gordier, apparently on the faith of Parkinson's note, but in the 

 reprint say ' probably the same person.' 



The copy of How's Phytologia, which is preserved in the Library 

 of Magdalen College, Oxford, contains a note in Goodyer's hand- 

 writing to the effect that the book was received on April 30, 1659. 

 This volume, How's own copy, contains many notes sent by Goodyer 

 and referring principally to Hampshire plants; e. gr. : ^ Geranium colum- 

 hinum foUis dissectis pedicuJis longissimis fore magno. I found it Avild in 

 the beginning of August, 1654. It is not described or pictured, that 

 I find.' This is the first British record of Geranium columhinum (see 

 Merrett's Pinax, p. 45, where it is said to grow in several places in 

 Hampshire). A note in Goodyer's handwriting state's that ' a school- 

 master of Petersfield, Mr. Burton, gathered Pulmonaria GaUica Lohelii 

 or Ladie Gill in flower, and brought it to J. G. on June 4, 1659. The 



