ii8 THE WILD-FLOWERS OF SELBORNE 



scripts of Goodyer were placed in his hands, and it is 

 from this work, and from Johnson's edition of Gerarde, 

 that we are enabled to estimate our indebtedness to this 

 keen and energetic botanist. Among the Hampshire 

 plants first recorded by Goodyer, many of which still 

 flourish in their old localities, may be mentioned the 

 marsh mallow, which grew " plentifully in a close 

 called Aldercrofts, near Maple Durham " ; the rare 

 round-headed rampion, which flourished then, as now, 

 on several of the downs near Petersfield ; the narrow- 

 leaved lungwort, which he found, on " May 25, Anno 

 1620, flowering in a wood by Holbury House in the 

 New Forest in Hampshire"; the maidenhair spleen- 

 wort, of which, "in January 1624, he saw enough to 

 lode an horse growing on the banks in a lane as 

 he rode between Rake and Headley, neere Wollmer 

 Forest"; and the Marsh Isnardia, which he discovered 

 in " a great ditch near the moor at Petersfield." 



Robert Turner, who belonged to the astrological 

 herbalists, published, in 1664, a work he called 

 Botanologia^ in which he described " the Nature and 

 Vertues of English Plants," with "the places where 

 they flourish." Many of these places are in the 

 neighbourhood of Holshot, in the north of the county, 

 where his father had an estate, and where he was 

 doubtless brought up. About his old home Turner 

 found many new and interesting plants which he 

 duly records in his Herbal. The wild columbine, 

 " both the white and the purple, grow wilde," he tells 

 us, "in our meadows where the ground is somewhat 

 dry, as in a place called Gassenmead, in Holshot." 

 In his "father's grounds" the wild broom was 

 plentiful, and the couch-grass, we learn, much in- 

 fected the garden. " In moist, boggy ditches, as in 



