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Show AN APPENDIX OR ADDITION OF * certaine Plants omitted in the former Hiftorie. The Preface, Auing run through the Hiftorieof Plants gathered by M*. Gerrard,and much enla rged the fame both by theadditjon ofmany Figures and hiftories ofPlants not formerly contained ™’ in it,and by the amendingandenereafing the hiftorie of fundry of thofe which before were thereintreated of, I finde that I haue forgotten diuers which I intended to haue addedin their fitting places : the occafion hereof hath beene,my many bufineffes, the troublefomeneffe,and aboue all, che great expe tation and haft of the Worke, wherebyI wasforced to performe this task within the compaffe ofa yeare. Now being conftant to my firf.refolution, I here haue,as time would giue me leaue, and my memorie ferue, made briefe coleaion and addition(thoughwithout method) of {uchas offered themfelues vato me ; and without doubt theteare fundrie others which are asfitting tobe added as thofe ; and I fhould nor haué beenwanting, iftime would haue permitted meto haue entred into further confideration ofthem, “In the meane time take in ood part thofe rhat I haue here prefentedto yourview, Cuaret. OftheMaracoc-or Pafion-floure. q The Defeription. 26-8 His Plant, which the Spaniards inthe WeftIndies call Granad:Ha, becaufe the fruit fomewhat refembles a Pomegranat,whichin their tongue they term Granadas, isthe fame which the Virginians'call eatarazoc. The Spanith Friers for fomeimaginarie refemblancesin the floure,firft calledit Flos Pafiomis,the Pat fion floure,and ina counterfeit figure,by adding what was wanting,they made it asicwere an Epitomeofour Sauiours Paffion:thus fuperftitious perfons 2 femperfibt omniumfingunt. Banhine defirous to refer it to fome ftock or kindred of formerly knowne plants, giues it the name of Clematis tri ia. yet the floures and fruit pro10t properly belonging to their Tribe , but C/ematsbeing a certaine genericke name to hounceit not plants; this as a {pecies may come vnder the denomination, though little in allwooddy w other refpeas pz ipating viththem. The roots ofthis are, long, fomewhat like, yet. thicker than tholeof S. ila, running and downe,and putting vp their heads in fcueral] places:from thefé roots rife vp manylong winding roundftalkes, which growtwo, three, foure, or more yards =) o tothe heate andfeafonableneffe of the yearcandfoile whereas theyare planted: s srow manyleaues diuided into threeparts, fharpe pointed, and {aipt about the edges : commonly out of the bofomes of each ofthe vppermolt leaues there groweth a clafping tendrell a floure the floure growes vpon a little foot-ftalke fome two inches long, and is of a d forme, with finelittle crooked hornes at the tog, before fich time as it open it th head divides it felfeinto ten parts, and furftaines tt ues of the long, fharpe pointed, narrow, and orderly {pred open one by another, ers crooked: thefe Jeaues are ofcolour whitifh, but thicke {potted witha s hottomeir hath aring of a perfe& Peach colour, and abouc and beule agreat graceto thefloure ; in the middeft whereof ifes an ym ureor fiue crooked {ported hornes,with broadith heads: from S fff fl 2 the |
