Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . of 1879 it expanded into no marshy spots in which Isnardiacould have a chance of growing. I searched the stream through theCommon and along its course downwards for about a mile, but withoutsuccess. The plant is now extinct in Sussex, the only other county inwhich it has been found in Great Britain. Mr. Bolton Kings patientdetermination to rediscover the plant [in the Brockenhurst neighbour-hood, where it had been found by Borrer in 1843] was rewarded byfinding it abundantly in 1878 in
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . of 1879 it expanded into no marshy spots in which Isnardiacould have a chance of growing. I searched the stream through theCommon and along its course downwards for about a mile, but withoutsuccess. The plant is now extinct in Sussex, the only other county inwhich it has been found in Great Britain. Mr. Bolton Kings patientdetermination to rediscover the plant [in the Brockenhurst neighbour-hood, where it had been found by Borrer in 1843] was rewarded byfinding it abundantly in 1878 in another spot in the neighbourhood.]* Beech. Fagus sylvatica Before 1650 I found one much varying in his leaves, some were whole as those of the ordinary, others much jagged or divided.—Goodyer quoted by How, Phytologia, p. 40. I650-1656 TJic notes on the folloiuing nitie plants occur in Hows handwritingin his interleaved copy of the Phytologia Britannica. They musttherefore have been ivritten between 16^0, lohen the book waspublished, and 16^6, when he died. Townsend, Flora Hampshire, p. DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 189 Cardamine impatiens flosculis minoribus, sive rills and ditch sides about Bath, Dr. Johnson was mistaken in saying yt this was Siutn I have both ye plants. I admonished him of this error buthe lived not to amend it. J. Goodyer.—p. 31.[Johnson died in 1644.] Polypodinm Dryopteris , Trag. Tree-fern. It growes on a bottome called Rogers Deane in ye parish ofFaringdon in Hampshire, about a mile and a half from ye church,a furlong from one John Trybes dwelling house on ye north eastpart of ye house about 2 miles from Alton about a mile north eastfrom Dogford Wood. Great antient beeches kept ye sunne fromshining on ye Plants. Ann. 1654 many of those trees were cutdowne. The Plants ye sunna shone on y summer 54 were short,ye leaves growing on short stemms neere ye earth as Tabernaemontpictureth it, p. 50
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