Lib* *• 



Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 



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Ufminumlvtttim. 



Yellow Iafmine. 



bout fuch things as ftand neerevntoit, butonely 

 leaneth and lieth vpon thofe things that are prepa- 

 red to fuftain it about arbors and banqueting hou. 

 fes in gardens , by which it is held vp : the (hikes 

 thereof arc long,round,branched, jointed or kneed, 

 and ofa green coIour,hauing within a white fpon- 

 geous pith. The Jeaues ftand vpon a middle rib, fet 

 together by couples like thofeof theafli tree, but 

 \v) much fmaller,of a deepe greenecolotir : the floures 

 grow at the vppermoft part of the branches , flan- 

 ding in a fmall tuft far fet one from another, fwect 

 in fmell,of colour white: the feed is flat and broad 

 like thofe of Lupines,which feldom come to ripe- 

 nefle : the root is tough and threddy. 



LoM reportcth,That bee faw in a garden at 

 BruiTels,be longing to a reuerend perfon called M r . 

 Boifdt 9 z kindeof Gelfemine very much differing 

 from our Iafmine,which he nourifhed in an earthen 

 pot : it grew not aboue (faith he) the height ofa 

 cubit,diuided into diuers branches, wherupon did 

 grow Ieaues like thofeof the common white Iaf- 

 mine,but blacker and rounder. The floures in fhew 

 weremoft beautifull,fliaped like thofe of the com- 



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open, white on th 

 on thevnder fide. 



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There is a kinde hereof with yellow flouresf 



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and 



i folium jr. 



is one,and that is another plant, differing from the 

 kindes of Iafmine, as (hall be declared in his pro- 

 per place. The yellow Iafmine differs not from the common white Gefmine in leaues,ftalks, nor 



faduonof the flours : the only difference is,that this plant brings forth yellow flours,and the other 



white. 



4 There is Iikewife another fort that differs not from the former in any rfepeft but in the color 

 of thefloure $ for this plant hath floures ofa blew colour, and the others not fo, wherein confifteth 

 the difference. 



«[[ The Place. 





Gelfemine is foftred in gardens 3 and is vfed for arbors,& to couer banqueting houfes in gardens: 

 kgrowes not wild in England,that lean vndcr ftand of, though M r Z^beofanotheropinion:the 

 w hitc Iafmine is common in mod places of England : the reft arc ftrangers,and not feenc in thefe 



parts as yet. 



^[ The Time. 



They bring forth their pleafant floures in Iuly and Auguft. 



1[ The Names. 



Among the Arabians Serapie was the firft that named Gettemmc } Z amhach.it is called l*fmwnm % 

 ie J e ^m^ndal(6Gefeminum: in Engti(h,Iafmine,Geffemine,and GelTe. 



* here ls in Diofcondcs a compofition of oileof Iafmine,which he faith is made in Perfia of the 

 for'n es °f Violcts,which Violets feem to be none other than the floures of this Geffemine ^ 

 f c r 10 f cori<ia hath often reckoned faire «nd elegant floures among the Violets^fo that it rauft not 



cm Itrange that he calleth the floures of IeiTeminc Violets,efpeciaily feeing the plant it felf was 

 ^nowntohim,asiseuident. 



^j" The Temperature. 



me,and efpecially the floures thereof, be hot in thebeginningof the fecond degree, as 



^J The Vertuts. 



GefTemi 

 5e "t» reporteth out of Mefe 



The 



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xucu °'k w .fcch is made of the flours hereofwafteth away raw huraors,and is good againrt cold a 



thereof ' ? C ln thofe that are of a hot conftitution lt caufcth head-ache, and the ouermuch fa eil 

 c °trnakeththenofetobleed,as the fame Author affirmeth. It is vfed (as Viofcorides witteth. 



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