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Show Crap. 86. Theatrum Botanicum. Cuap, Trips5. LXKXXVI Tripn.5 The Theater ofPlants. —Cuar.86. 2, Ciffus Halioni folio minor, The leffer Sea Purflane leafed feryale Ciktus, Ciflus annuusfloregattato, Spotted annuall Ciftus, . Ciffo fimsilisfroeex exoti cus. he Ciftus like ftrange thrubbes 7+ ciftus annuus follo Salicis.. Ciftus femina, The female Ciftus. He female Ciftus as I {ayd before isdiftinguithed from the male, inthar it beareth not red flowers likeit, but white or yellow, whereof there are many forts as the fucceeding defcriptionsdoe de- , clare not intendingto fet downein:this place that fort thatis expreffed in my former booke, andis the firt of C/ufius in his Hiftory ofPlants,alchough I fhew you the figure thereof, 1. Ciftusfemina folio Halimi major. The greater Sea Purflane leafed Ciftus, This kinde of Ciftus eroweth up with flender hoarybrittle branches, twoorthree foote high ufually atthe moft, plentifully ftored with. thicke hoary leaves, very like unto Sea Purflane ; fomewhat round pointed, two alwayes be at a joynt,one oppofite to another as isufuallin moft ofthe forts of Ciftus;the tops: of the branches yi 1€ yellow wi fome threds are furnifhed with many yellowi (h flowersleffer then thofe of thefirft female Ciftus, with in the middle ofthem, after which come fomewhatlong and three fquare heads conteining within them {mall brownith feede. : 2. (iffesfeminafolio Halimi minor. The leffer Sea Purflane leafed female Ciftus, This other Giftus rifeth up more high and upright then the former, bucnoleffe hoary, and fet with fomewhat narrower and longerleaves then the former, and morepointed at the ends, the middle ribbe atthe backe of the hoary leaves, being greater then in the other, yet both of an anftere, fharpe, and binding tafte, the flowers have not beene obferved by Clufins whofirlt fetit forth.and ftom whom all others have exprefiedic, . Ciftus femina folio Sampfushi, Marjeromeleafed Ciftus. f Theflender weake branchedflalkes ofthis Ciftus are thicke fet with many {mall hoary leaves, very likeunto Marjerome, but fomewhatleffer, and with a thicker ribbe on the backe of every leafe, two togetheras isufuallinthe reft : the flowers are {mall and white, compofed offive round pointed leaves, with a darke purplifh fpot atthe bottomeofevery leafe, with divers yellow threds in the middle; the feede hereofis grayith, that followethin {mall three fquare heads. 4. Cifus femine Lavendulafolio, Lavender leafed Ciftus, The chiefelt difference in this Ciftus frona the laft is in the leaves,being finall and long liké unto Lavender, yée fo like that as C/ufius faith,he verily thought them plants to be Lavender that he firft faw, and fonegletted them untill feeing the flowers upon them which were wholly white, without any {pot in them, he plainely then faw that it was a kind ofCiftus. x. Ciftus femina Halitmi folio major. The geater Sea Purflancleafed female é Ciftns. LO RQ Ciftus famina volgaris. The ordinary female Ciftus. ADDU" 5. Ciftus femina folio Thymi. Time leafed Ciftus, The ftalkes ofthis Ciftusare brownith and wooddy,rifing a foote high for the moft part without any leavés Willove leafed annualCiftuse |