44 4 = The ase of pean Flowers. 
CHa. C3 x x I I I = 
Periploca recha rigiiana, Virginian Silke, - 
or not finde place in this Garden, let him be here receined, although with the | 
laft, rather then notatall. It rifeth vp with ene or-more ftrong and round 
‘ftalkes, three or foure foote high , whereon are fet at the feuerall ioynts thereof two 
faire, long, and broad leaues., round pointed, with many veines therein, growing 
~. ¢lofe tothe ftemme, without any foote-ftalke: atthe tops ofthe ftalkes, andfome- 
times at the ioynts of the leaues, groweth forth a great buth of flowers out ofa 
thinneskinne, totheaumber of twenty , and fometimes thirty or forty, euery one 
with along foote-ftalke, banging downe their heads for the moft part, efpeciall 
thofe that are outermott , euery one ftanding within fimall huske of greene leaues, 
turned to the fiitkeward. like vnto the Lyfimachia flower ef Virginia before de- a 
{cribed , and each of them confifting of fiue {mall leaues a peece, of a pale pur- 
| plith colour.on the vpperfide, and of apale yellowith purple vnderneath , both: 
ES Ws | Be cach leafe being as it were folded together, making them fecme hollow and 
pointed, witha few thort chiues inthe middle after which come long and crooked 
ap a" soinked. ‘cods ftanding vpright , wherein are contained flat brownith feede , difper- 
fedly lying within a great deale of fine, foft, and whitith browne filke, very like vnto ; 
the cods, feede, and filke of ss Orange or Swallow-wort, but that the ceds aregreater — 
and more crooked, and h BS OE cone foe nieve is longandwhite, of 
the bi effe of amans thumbe, ru pi par ne far, and theotir wwp in a 4 
uers. ics. the heads being fet full of fmall eee es or knots 3 yeel ing forth q 
many branches, if ic ftand any time ina place: dine) whole plant, as well ‘aay asi, as a 
ftalkes, being broken , Yeas pale milke. : tz 
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L: this ftranger. thould findeno hof pitality with vs,belig fo beautiful a pial . 
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| woes fiir ser pebsbiw Shaniy ehiéchis planet Game a t Pte- 
{per Alpinus in the twenty fife Chapter of ‘his Booke of Egyptian plants, 
‘gauieth Beidelfar; and Honorius Bel us in his third and foweh E Epiftles via 
_  toClafius (which are at the end of his Hiftory of ¢ plants)calleth of a) rm 
a B| Aon ’ tex: And Clufias himfelfe in the. fame Booke calleth Apocynuns Syriacum 
: “13 Paleitinum, and Agyptiacum,, becaufethis agrecth withtheirs imvery many 
* st v7 and notable parts); yet verily I thinke this pl tis not the fame, ‘but athe 
another kinde of it felfe : Firft, becaufe itisnot /rstex, a thruboravooddy 
'._-plantsnorkeepeth his leaues all the yeare, but lofeth both leanes and ftalks 
__ dying down to the ground cuery yeare:Secondly,the milkeisnot caultick 
~-orviolent, as Alpinus and Bellus{ay Ofaris Thirdly’, the cods: or 
_crookedthen thofe of Clufius, or of Alpinus, which Honori 
~~ knowledgeth to be right, sling greater then th thofehe had o for Bayi 
mentien, iGerettin his Herbal gutharade gue ofc he} . is but a.vor 
true figure of the cods with {eede, and faith the Virginians wifanck, 
and referreth it lahat ny, for the likeneffe of the’ rele beasa ied 
