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Show 36Guana. Theatrum Botanicum. mer: TRIBE.3. es The Theater ofPlants. 4. Dorychium Creticum Alpini, 3. Dorgcninm Diofcoridés forte Pona, ; The fuppofed true Dorycnium of Candy by Alpinas; Ponahis (uppofed true Dory cminm of Diofcorides, Cuap. XII. Cuapr.12. Dorycniitm, The fuppofed vénemonsplant Doryenivm, ah Hereare diverfe plants fet forth for the trueDoryeninm of Diofcorides bydiverfe Writers a Ke , Not anyone A Rg ) whereofagreeth withall the notesthat he givethof it; fo that yet to this d: ysthe true Dorycninmis nor te &>: ¢ knowne to anythat wecanheare of : I will therefore here fet forth unto you fome of thofe SENS plants,that i * the molt judicious moderne Writers, doe fuppofe may referred thereunto,as agt eeing therewithin many things, and fhew whereunto elfe they may moft properly bebereferred. D WAR ¥ . 1, Dorycninm {uppofititium Monfpelienfe Hifpanicum, Thewhite fhrubbe Trefoile of Mompelier and Spaine, The fhrubbe Trefoile, which Rovdeletins and other the learned of Mompelier, (as Pena faith) called Dos rycninm, {hooteth forth many wooddybranches, browne at the bottome, and whiter towards the toppes, fomewhat flexible, tothe height of three or foure foote(as I have obferved in mine owne Gar den )whereon at feverall diftances,come forth diverfe {mal whitith leayes,threeor five or more together at a joynt,roundabout the ftalke: at the toppesofthe branches {tand many{mall whitith fowersin tuftes, like unto the but fmaller, which turne into {mali long cods with {mall round blackifh grayfeede flowers of other Trefoiles s within them: the roote is great,wooddy, very long.and branched into manyparts under ground, of a pale reddith or fleth colour on the infide, covered with a darke brownith barke : which abideth diverfe yeares, although the branches dye downe to the ground, if there be care taken to defend it from the extremities of the frofts in Winter, for want whereof mine perifhed: it hathlittle or no tafteat all. ' 2. Dorycnio ongener Clufzj, Another Trefoile like unto the former, his other as Cl#fiws faith is verylike the former, but more white or hoary, having fhorter and broader leavés fet in the {ame manner, three orfive together,uporthe {mail bending branches, which are whiter and flenderer y: the flowers are greenifh and larger than the former, {tanding many together onaflender bare twiege: and Can sus Say the flowers are purple,or of a whitifh purple colour, this hath a faltifh tafte With i 3.. Dorycnium Diofcoridisforte Pone, Ponahis {uppofed true Do rycninmofDi is ftrange plant faith Poza, that was encreafed from the feede fent ont of ( ty, to § Contarino, and grewin his garden, rofeto the height of afoote anda halfe,{pr eading forth into manybranches, whereon did growmany{mall long and narrow rugged leaves full of veines,lef out order upon them:the flowers were fafhioned like unto the fer then the leaves of the Olivetree, fer withbloffomes of Pulfe or Peafe fometimes ofa white colour, and fometimes of a more yellowithcolour: the uiun feed he faith he did not fee, (but farely it mutt give feede in cods or huskes : forthereare very few plants that beare peafe or pulfe like flowers, bur they beare their feede in cods or the like) the rootes are many {mall ftrings and fibres {hooting from ahead, which whether it die every yeare or abide, wee have not yet learned : but Diofcorides faith that his Derycnizm hath fappoftirinm Mon/peli afe &Hifp anicum. cfoile of Aompelier and Spaine. 20 congener Ciuffy. Another like it, leavesin winter, themfelvés yeélding new; afidbuddingfreth in the {pringbut hardly endurétha winterwith us, unleflee{peciall care be hadto preferveit, by keeping it ina large pot or, fuchlike, and honfingit untill the {pring, ; 7 The Place, ; The two firlt grow in divers provinces of Spaine, as.Clufins fetteth it downe, and the foremoft abont AZomes aroote ofthe lengthofa cubit and ofthe thickenefle of a finger whenit is erowneold,which this as you heare pelier alfo. The third andthelaft growbothin rockyorftony places neare the Sea, in Candy, from whence the feedeor plants were firit brought into /ta/y,and from thenceto feverallfriends elfewhere. ith rhe right Dorycnium of Diofcorides, and yet* They do€all fowerverylate in thefe parts, wherebytheir feede feldome commethto perfe@tion, and in their hath not, and thereforeif for nothing elfe, ir agreeth aith, hehath nor feene anyplant that doth fo neerely refemble the true Dorycnivmas this doth, 4. Dorycnium Creticum Alpini. uppofed true Dorycainm of Candy, This plant doth fo differ from others, that every oné isreadyto applyirtoa feverall plant, ashis judgeme nt and affection to {ome particular part thereof doth draw him, becaufeit doth partake withdivers plants,as you fhall heare:it rifech with diversftraight upright wooddyftalkes, yet veryflexible, divided into many branches fromthe bottome, all white or hoary ; whereon growmany long thicke, and fomewhat narrow white filverlikeleaves, fer without order, at the toppes the ftalkes and branches, comeforth many flowers of to- gether in a tuft or umbell,with fome {mall leaves with them, every one whercofis broad, openat the brims, and round, confifting ofone whole leafe, like untoa Bell-flower, or bindweed, which open-bydegrees, one afteranother, andnotal] together, whereby it doth continue the longer in fowring : after the flowers are fallen, come {mall rough huskes, wherein is contained blacke feed, like unto thofe ofthe Bindweed es, fome~ what thicke and greats the roote is fomewhat great and thicke not growing downe deepe into the ground, with many fibres thereat, which abideth many yeares in the warme countryes, yet the branches lofe their The Time, naturall not untill the Autumne, The Names. Ttiscalled in Greeke Spsuvtoy Doryenium,and of Cratevas as Diofcorides faith, aanicnah@- se Halicacabus; and Cala, fome write itis called Sosvxviay Dorycninm quafitoxicum, quo fpicula cufpidatave telainfici folita fuew runt,ut celeriorem molireutur perniciem faith Pena, but we cannotheare, that anyof thefe plants, have any /oporj- fercus, much leffe venemousor mortall quality in them, as D io/coridesattributeth to his, andtherefore the more fafpitiousthat none ofthemare theright, although in the outward face, they may all of them, in fome things refemble it. There are other plants alfo referred thereunto, asthe Phylirea, which Ge/ner in hortis G ermanic ta keth to bea fhrubelike unto the Vitis Idea, as allo Pifum cordatum, ot Veficaria nigra, five peregrinna cordis ef= figie, by Cordus upon Dirfeorides, The firltis called Dorycninm verum, by the learned of Monepslieras Pena.and Lobel fay, and Anguillara, and clufius fay the fame alfo, yet Clufins calleth it-Doryenicnm FE fpanicum, which wasalfo fent him ashe faith, by Uliffes Aldroandus, by the name ofTrifolinm album, butby Gordys in the place before recited, it is accounted falfe.” Banhinus in his Pinax reckonethit among the {piked Trefoiles, calling it Trifolinmalbum anguftifolivmfloribus, velut in capitulum congeftés, Clujius faith that the Spariards about Sala manca,where he found it,call it Miediega,Gerard calleth it venemous Trefoile of Mompelierjand of:Spaines ma king them tobe twofeverall plants, expreffed by twofigures, and Mc Tohnfon hiscorrector letreth themfo pafie likewife, but I had rather give it the denomination ofDorycninm, from the Latine, as moft other nations doe, and call it Dorycninm [#ppofititium, {uppoted Dorycninm, becanfeit is but fuppofed to be tight, or elfe from the forme, and call it fhrubbe Trefoile onely, becaufe it is not dangérous. _ The fecond is fo called by Clufins, as it isinthe title, but Bashinuscalleth it Lotos pentaphyllos incanus. The third is called by Ponain his Italian booke, orycnium Diofcoridis forte, but by Bauhinus-in his Pinar, Tacee olaefolio affinis, and faith hee had the feede from Hoxorjys Bellus, outofCandy, by the nanie of Lago Chymica, which grewwith him, but if the flowers be Lecum'nous, as Pona de(cribech themto be,it cannot poffibly come nere to any Tacea, and yet againe in his Pina, fol. 465. he makethit alfo tobe Cxeore.alboaffinis, which how likely it is,let others judge. Thelaft Clue fets tethforth in the Appendix ,to his Hiftory ofPlants, by the name of Doryenium Plateau, becanfe Iacobus I sire hadit growing with him, from the feede received from Candy, and fent both the figure and defcription thereof Ir unto HOO ceneRR crimonyin italfo, |