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Botany (No. 934^ from near Windsor, and in the Botanist's Guide he is the 

 authority for Damasonium Alisma near Windsor. In the Flora Britannica 

 (t8oo) he recorded Linaria Cymbalaria for the first time in Berkshire, 

 ' on the walls of Windsor Castle,' and in 1804 Carex curta (canescens) from 

 Virginia Water, and reported Menyanthes mjmphaeoides {Limnanthemum 

 peltatum) from the Thames at Ankerwyck near Windsor ; but the 

 latter plant was already on record, and the locality mentioned is in 

 Bucks. 



At the meeting of the Eoyal Society on November 30, 1827, the 

 President, Mr. Davies Gilbert, pronounced the following eulogium on 

 Dr. Goodenough : '■ He has ever sustained the character of a sound and 

 elegant scholar. Entrusted with the education of distinguished per- 

 sonages, and having qualified them for the first situations in the State, 

 he fairly and honourably ascended to the summit of ecclesiastical 

 preferment. To classical and theological learning Dr. Goodenough 

 added a very intimate knowledge of natural history, as is shown by 

 his communication to the Linnean Society, in which his labours 

 have thrown a steady light over an extensive genus of aquatic [sic] 

 plants left by all former botanists in obscurity and confusion. The 

 memoi-y of Dr. Goodenough will long be cherished with atfection and 

 esteem by all who had the honour of his acquaintance, either in his 

 public or in his private life.' 



Besides the paper on the Carices, Dr. Goodenough published a notice 

 of the Porteagle Shark in the third volume of the Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society, and a paper on British Fuci in the same volume. He 

 also assisted Withering in the third edition of the Arrangement of British 

 Plants, and was a great friend and constant correspondent of Sir James 

 Edward Smith ; fifty-two letters of his are published in the Memoirs 

 and Correspondence of Sir J. E. Smith, in one of which, dated 1810, he 

 says that ' Monotropa Hypopithys certainly used to grow iti Bisham 

 Woods.' In another, written in 1799, he writes : 'Your Carex binervis 

 is a good species ; I believe it grows near Hastings.' In another he 

 complains that ' during his whole residence at Windsor, as well as at 

 Rochester, he has not had a naturalist within his rench,' and he adds, 

 ' There is a plant of which I have not a correct notion, namely Picris 

 Meracioides. I always took a dwarfish plant, about a foot high, and of 

 a hard roughish tendency, to be that, but the Eton botanists assured 

 me that a smooth plant, which grew just over the ferry lane at 

 Datchet, about three feet high, was P. hieracioides.' Writing from Rose 

 Castle in 1810, he says that ' he has found a favourite Oxfordshire 

 plant, Sanguisorba officinalis, there.' 



Sir James Smith named the genus Goodeyiia, in honour of Dr. Good- 

 enough, and says in Rees' Cyclopaedia : ' It did not occur to me that 

 Goodenoviae might have come nearer to the original . . . but it is now too 



