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Show 396 The Garden ofpleafant Flowers. The Garden of pleafant Flowers. many Clematis Daphugides (but not that plantthatis fimply called Daphnoi des, for that is Lewreola) and is vfually called Vinca pervinca:buc it is p Chamadaphne, for that is another plant,as fhall be fhewedin his place. fom Exar. CII. call it Centuncalus : In Englith wee call it Perwinkle., The other is renal Chameles. Dwarfe Spurge Oliue, or Dwarfe Baye: altera of Diofcorides, andis called allo Clematis peregrina , whofe diftingi onsare fet downe in their titles : In Englifh, Ladies Bower, or Virsin Bower, becaufe theyare fit to growe by Arbours, to couer them. Ther vpright Clambereris called, andthatrightly of fome, Clematis eredig ; farreda. Ofothers, Flamimula fratex, and Flammula lo2ts, or Surrech : th Englith, Vpright Virgins Bower. The next iscalled by Cluftus Cleat Paswonica cerulea, who thoughtit tobe Climeni /pccies, by the relation of thers, at thefirft, but after entituled it, Clemars: In Englith , the Hun wi Climer. The laft may be called in Latine,Clematis Virginiana:In Ey tf The Virgin or Virginian Climer ; of the Virginians, Ateracoc : ofthes rm niards in the Welt Indies Granadito, becaufe the fruit(as is beforeiid) itn fome fathion like a {mall Pomegranate on the outfide , yet the feedewithia is flattifh,round,and blackifh. Some fuperftitious Iefu-ite would faine make men belecue, that in the flowerofthis plant are to be feeneall the markesof our Sauiours Paffion ; and therefore call it Flos Pafsienss: and to that end haue caufedfigures to be drawne,and printed,with all the parts proportio- ned out, asthornes,nailes, {peare, whippe,pillar, &c. init, and all astm asthe Sea burnes, which you maywell perceiue by thetrue figure, takento thelifeofthe plant, compared with the figures fer forth by the lefuites whichI haue placed here likewife for euery oneto fee : butthefe beethet aduantagious lies (which with themaretolerable,or rather pious and met torious) wherewith they vfeto inftrué their people ; but I darefay, God neuerwilled his Prieftsto inftruét his people with lyes:for they come from the Diuell, the author ofthem. But you mayfay I am befide my Text, and differing [= thtee forts ofChameleato bring to your confideration, every one notably from other; two of them of great beauty in their flowers; as wellas in the in wholeplant: the third abiding with greene leaues, although it hauene beauty theflowerjyet worthy ofthe placcit holds. tiorss. 1.Chanselen Germanica five Mezerconfloribws dilutioris coloris Cfatura Dwarfe Baye, or flowring Spurge Oliue. s ofthis Spurge Oliue or Dwafe Baye, differing onely in the co- We haue twofort , fiueor fix foot lour ofthe fowers. They bothrife vp with athicke wooddy ftemme old) of a mans wreft at high fometimes, or more, and ofthe thickneffe(if they be very with atough grayifh theground, {preading into many flexible long branches,couered but fmaller and leaues, Priuet vato atlike fomewh leaues, ng fmalllo with befet barke, of foure leaves; ng onfifti fmall,c are flowers the : inted oundpo paler, and in a mannerr s by chemfelues: many growing together fometimes, and breaking out of the branche rds; the other inthe one fort of a pale red at the firft blowing, and more white afterwa red colourall the time of ofadeeper red inthe bloffome, and continuing ofa deeper flowers are paft , come the theflowring, both ofthem very {weete in {mell: after the ds,tur ning blackith red,if afterwar red very and firft, the at greenc betries, which are tough long branthey ftand too long vponthe branches: the rootes {pread into many ches, couered witha yellowithbatke. Tam in doubt you will thinke, Taminthis befides myfelfe and fo nothing 2. Chamalee Alpina, Mountaine Spurge Olive. to bebelecued hereinthat I fay. For, forthe moft part, it isan inherentetrourinallof thatfide, to beleeuenothing, be it neuerfo true, that anyof ourfide fhall affirme,that contrarieth theaffertions of anyoftheir Fathers asthey callthem : but muft referre themto God, and hee knoweth the trath, and will reforme ordeformethem in his time. In regard whereof T could not but fjpeake (the occafion being thus offered) againft fuchan¢t roncous opinion (which euen Dt, Aldineat Rome before remembred, dif re and contraried both thefaid figures and name) andfeck to difprout 22 ond fay notalmoft,butI am affraid altogether) leade many toadort , re picture of fuch things, as are but the fictions offuperftitious brains: 3 a owerit felfe is farre differing fromtheir figure, as both Aldinein ee oe booke, and Robinusat Papis in his Theatrum Flere, dock s . :5 : . flowers and leaues being drawnetothe life, and there exhibited, ee mayfatisfie all men, that will not be perpetually obftinate and The Vertues. Coftzusfaith hee hathoften feene, that the leaues of Perwinkleheldia 3 oe , hath ftayed the bleeding at the nofe. The French doe vie itt ee The other are canfticke plants, that is, fiery he a gthe skinne sandtherefore (as Diofcorides faith) is profitable ake awaythe {curfe, leprye,or fach like deformities ofthe skin. What property that of Virgitia hath, is not knowne to any with vs Ithinke, more ~ t ots liquor in the greene fruit is pleafantintafte ;.but afluredly * naot be without fome {peciall properties, if they were knowne. And ynro thefe I muft adioyne another plant, as comming neareft vnto themin the brauery of the fowers. ,three or foure foot This Mountaine Laurell rifeth vp with a fmall wooddy ftemme manyflendet and tough into high, or more, branching forth towardsthe vpperpartsbefet at the ends thereof with branches, couered witha rough /hoary greene barke, e former , ofagrayith greene flatter, fuller, and {maller round pointed leauesthenth abide not onthe branchesia which eath, yndern hoary and ide, vpperf colour.on the fer togetherat the ends many are s flower the : Winter, but fall not awayas the former leaues a peece, of a foure of ing confift ofthe branches, greater then the former,and fent at all : thefruit no or litcle of buskes; h grayit {mall in g light blufhcolour, ftandin nt redcolour, which excelle followeth, whichare {mall long graines or berries, ofan the vpper part afterwards turne blacke: the roote islong , and {preadeth about vader of the earth. 3. Chawselaa tricoccos. Widowe Waryle. ftemmeat all, butthe. whole plant This three berried Spurge Oliue hath no great greene branches, whercon are fee congh le flexib {preadeth from the ground into many s allalong the branches, which abide greene diuers narrow, long, darke greene leaue h between very fmall, fcarce to be feencyand come:fort allthe Winter : the flowers aare leaues 5 after which three of made r, colou w yello pale of , ftalke the nd theleauesa int fet together: theroote {preadethit felfe come {mall blackith berries, three vfually well not bee sis if , dyeth y, and often * thegroundnotvery farre,being hardand woodd defended fromthe extremity of our fharpe Winters. : 4. Cxcorum Masrthioli, Small Rocke Rofes g the ld difpofe.of this plant,whether amon Iwas long in doubt in what place I fhou ld thou en Gord ft my h; butle Campions,as Bauhinus, or amongthefe,as Clutius dotha ;f pallant plant hath da ite time this for roome vp take letit wholly, wantit » ‘2 |