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wherein probably there may be some mistake, for I 

 cannot affirme nor I doubt any other yt. is found there- 

 about. Some 25 yeares ago I gave an account of this 

 plant unto [this crossed out] Mr. Goodyeere :^°^ & more 

 lately to Dr. How™ unto whome I sent some notes 

 and a box full of the fresh Juli. This elegant plant 

 groweth very plentifully and beareth its Julus yearly 

 by the bankes of Norwich river [fol. 13 verso] chiefly 

 about Claxton and Surlingham. & also between norwich 

 & Hellsden bridge so that I have known Heighara 

 Church in the suburbes of Norwich strowed all over with 

 it, it hath been transplanted and set on the sides of 

 Marish pondes in severall places of the country where 

 it thrives and beareth ye Julus yearly. 



Sesamoides Salamanticum Magnum."* Why you 

 omit Sesamoides Salamanticum parvum this groweth 

 not far from Thetford and Brandon and plentifuU in 

 neighbour places where I found it and have it in my 

 hortus hyemalis answering ye description in Gerard. 



Urtica Romana"' which groweth with button seede 



of the rush, on being trodden on, is said to have perfumed the whole 

 building. The root was also used as a remedy in cases of ague, and formed 

 the base of tooth and hair powders. 



102 Towards the end of the Introductory Letter to Johnson's (1636) 

 Edition of Gerard's " Herball," he acknowledges the assistance he received 

 from Mr. John Goodyer, of Maple-Durham, in Hampshire. Sir J. E. 

 Smith (" Eng. Flora," iv., p. 34) speaks of him as "one of the most 

 deserving of our early English Botanists." Robert Brown named a genus 

 of plants i^Goodyera) after Goodyer. 



103 William How, 1620-1656, was the author of " Phytologia Britannica," 

 Lond., 1650, "the earliest work on botany restricted to the plants of this 

 island " (" Die. of Nat. Biog."). He practised medicine in London. 



104 Sesamoides is stated in Ree's Encyclopaedia and in Eng. Fl. to 

 be a synonym of Reseda, therefore Sesamoides magnum would appear to 

 be R. luteola and 5'. parvum, R. lutea. 



105 Urtica Romana, which is again referred to as U. mas near the end 

 of the third letter and as being found at Gorleston, is the Roman 

 Nettle, U. pilulifera. In 1834 the Pagets ("Nat. Hist, of Great 



