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Show The Garden of pleafantFlowers, The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 4A | staan filken doune, But what reafon Cafpar Bauhinusin his Pisex Theatri Bore- nicihad, tovcall it (foritisClufius his pocynum Spriscum) by the name of Lapathum Lgyptiocnms Lattefcens filiqua) Afelepiadis; I know one in the world : for but that he would fhew an extreamefingularity in giving names Guar CXXILIL Peripleca recta Virgimiana. Virginian Silke, L:: this ftranger fhould finde no hofpitality with vs, being fo beautifull a plant or not finde placein this Garden,let him be here receiued ith the laft, vatherthen notatall. It rifeth vp with one ‘or more tonne ‘ ftalkes, three or foure foote high , whereonare {et at the feucrall ioyntsthereofqi faire, long, and broad Jeaues , round pointed, with many veines therein, or i. clofe torheftemme, without any foote-ftalke : arthe tops of the ftalkes oedfome times at the ioynts of the leaues', growcth forth a great buth of flowers out thinneskinne, totheaumber of twenty , and fometimes thirty or forty, eue ate with along foote-ftalke, hanging downe their heads for the moft part, eff cvally thofe that are-ourermoft, euery one ftanding within a {mall huske of preeneee ’ to plants, contrary to alll others (which. is very frequent with him) how could hethinke , thatthis:plant could haue any likeneffe or ‘cortefjponden- cie, withany'of the kindes of Dockes, thareuer he hadfeetie, real, or heard of, in face, orfliewofleaues:, flowets 5 orfeede ; but efpecially in giuing milke, I haue you fee (and that not without iuft and euident ‘cauife) given it a differing: Latine name from Gerard, becaule the a/elepias gineth no milke. but the Periploca or Apocymam:doth:andchereforefitter to be referred to this thento thats And:betanfeit fhould not wantan Englifh name anf{wera- bleto fome peculiar property thereofs; L-haue from thefilken dounecalled it Virginian Silke : bur Lknow there isanether plant growing in Virginia called Silke Grafle, whichis much differing fromthis, turned to the ftalkeward , like vnto the Lyfimachia flower of Virginia betorede {cribed , and eachof them confifting of fiue {mall leaues a peece, of a pale (4 plifhcolour-on the vpperfide, and of a pale yellowith purple vnderneath en he of each leafe being as it were folded together , making them feeme hollow d pointed, witha few fhort chiues in the middle’: after which come long and aaa pointed codsftanding vpright , wherein are contained flat brownith fede, difperfedly lying within a great dealeoffine, foft, and whitith browne filke very tbenip t : The Vertues. I know notiof any in our Land hathmade any tryall of the' properties hercof. Captainelohn$mith in his: booke of the difcouery“and defcription of Virginia, faith; that the Virginians vfe the rootes hereof(if his be the fame withthis)bcing bruifed and applyed tocuretheir hnrt¥'& difeafes, the cods, {eede, and filke of -d/clepias, or Swallow-wort, but chat the cods are greater and more crooked, and harder alfo in the outer fhell : the roote is long-and white, of the bigneffe of amans thumbe, running vnder groundvery far, and fhootin Vv in di- CHa’. CXXV.: uers places, the heads beingfet full of fmall white grumes or knots yeelding forth maay branches, if it ftand_any time ina place: the whole plant as well lense as fialkes, being broken , yeelda palemilke. Pistos the vfe ofthis plantis fo much,andfo frequent throughoutall this Land; ThePlace, Itcameto me from Virginia whereit fedvp fromthe feede I Ae ee gtoweth aboundantly , being rl The'Time. It fowreth in Iuly, andthe feedeis ripe in Auguft. TheNames. fpet Poiea ve probable to many,that this plant isthe famethat PrdBooke of Egyptian plants, abetF adiliins eeatice Rees oe "us Bellus in his third and fourth Epittles va- toClafins(which areattheend of his Hiftory ofplants)callethOf/t OFaS a acnimfelfe in the fame Booke calleth Apacysnm Syriaciity ae a ‘eypevacum, becanfethis agreeth with theirsin very mat Fehet hindeof; sae Ithinke this plancis not the fame, but rather ast co ee e: Firft, becaufe it isnot frwtex, a fhrubor wooddy p 4 be rkeepeth Ligafram. Primmeor Priuets ° his lcauesall the yeare, but Jofeth both leaues and fall, ying downto the ground cuery yeare: Secondly,the milkeisnot caufticke crookedhanthe+eofCag es: OF CAuHus, Or of Alpinus,Thy which Honoritis Bellus24 a thecods ise Acree to beright, although greater then thofe he had out of Egypt: a vane oe of thefe doe rufine, whercof none of them makeaty sageesta piaeths Bae figure of the plant, butayvely ofthe true figure iB h vith icede, and faith the Virginians call it w#/4""' andreferrethitto the -Yelepigs, for the likeneffe ofthe chids ftuffed with ‘ fallen althoughfor no other purpofe but to make hedgesor arbours in Gardens, &ce whereuntoitis foapt, that no other canbelike vatoir, to beecut, lead, and drawne into what forme onewill, either of beafts, birds, or men armed,or otherwifes Icould not forgetit, alrhoughit Be fowell knowne vnto all, to bean hedge bufh grow- ing from 2 woo ddy white roote, {preading muchwithin the ground, and bearing manie long, tough,and plyantfprigé and branches ;,whiereon arefet long; narrow , atid pointed {ad greene leaues by couples ateuery ioyat: at chetops whereof breaké forth great tuftsot fweete{melling whiteflowers 3) Which whentheyare fallen , turncinto {mall blacke berries, hauing a pucpleinyce within them ,.and {mall feede, flat onthe not cut, onefide, with an hole or denttherein : thisis feenein thofe branches thatare but fuffered to beare outtheir fowersand fruit. The Place, Thisbuth growethas plentifully inthe Woods of our owne Couutrey; as in any other beyond theSeas. The Time, It fowreth fometimesin June, and in Tuly ; the fruit is ripe m Auguft and z September. The Nantes. concerning this Thereis great controuerfie among the moderne Writers Phifiyres of Ditobe other rides, Diofco of plant, fome taking it to be x4 Plinic maketh mention o ofcorides, which followeth next after Cypras. of gore, Cyprus intwoplaces ; inthe one polite Cypras hath the leafe' ft Pp |