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plant is Jacobaea Pannonica 2 Clus. C. Bauhin, p. 131 (68).' The 

 Phytologia contains also a notice of Ludicigia. Magdalen College also 

 possesses a number of other manuscript notes by Goodyer, many of 

 them containing very interesting remarks on plants, principally from 

 Hampshire. Three of these records however refer to the Berkshire 

 side of Oxford : • Ci/perus gramineus. Lob., on the west side by Oxford 

 neare Gloucester Gate, July 2, 1622 ' — this is Scirpus sylvaticus ; 

 ' Pastinaca aqnatica kdifoUa in the water ditches and in the river at 

 Oxford, July 5, 1622,' is Slum latifoUum ; and Carduus Eriocephalus Corona 

 fratrum, of which Goodyer says * I found it in the highway neare 

 Abingdon leading towards Oxford July 2, 1622,' is Carduus Erio- 

 phorus, L. It was probably through Goodyer that How's MSS., &c., 

 came into the possession of Magdalen College. Goodyer died about 

 1662. Robert Brown named a genus of Orchids Goodyera in honour 

 of him. 



The next writer to claim our attention is Thomas Johnson, who was Joh\s«in. 

 born at Selby in Yorkshire about the beginning of the seventeenth 

 century. He became an apothecary, and lived on Snow Hill in 



London. His first publications were his Iter in agrum Cantianum. 



and his Ericetum Hamj)stedianum of 1629, the first local catalogues 

 printed in England, In 1633 he published his improved edition of 

 Gerard's Herbal under the title of ' The Herball, or General History of 

 Plants gathered by John Gerard of London, very much enlarged and 

 amended by Thomas Johnson, citizen and apothecarye of London.' 

 In this work Johnson records on p. 30, ' Gramen junceum leucanthemum, 

 White-floured rush grasse . . . upon a bogg neere the highway side 

 at the corner of the great Parke ... in Windsore Forest,' which 

 is the first record of Rynchospora alba. On p. 1115 we read '■ Hippuris 

 Coralloides, Horse taile Coralline. My friend Mr. Leonard Buckner 

 was the first that found this plant and brought it to me ; he 

 had it three miles bevond Oxford, a little on this side Euansham 

 ferry, in a bog upon a common by the Beacon Hill neere Cumner 

 wood, in the end of August, 1632.' This plant is considered by 

 Messrs. Groves to have been jjrobably Chara vulgaris, and, if so, this 

 is the first record of the species as a British plant. In the same 

 "work six plants are given, which had been recorded by preceding 

 writers as growing in Berkshire. Johnson's edition of the Herbal is 

 a great improvement upon the original ; it contains more than eight 

 hundred plants not mentioned by Gerard, besides innumerable cor- 

 rections. The plates amount altogether to 2,717. In 1634 he published 

 his Mercurius Bolanicus, containing the results of a journey through 

 Oxford to Bristol and Bath and back to Southampton, the Isle of 

 Wight, and Guildford, made with the professed design of investigating 

 rare plants. About six hundred are enumerated, a few for the first 



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