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The low or bafc Ciftus of Auftria groweth likevrife leaning to the ground,hauing many 

 ft-ooddy branches vety firme and tough,couered with a blackifh barke 5 whereon grow very many 

 rough and hairy leauesin fhapelike thofeof the fmall Myrtle,ofa fliining green on thevppcr fide 

 and offlnaftringent tafte : on euery branch ftandeth one floure s fcIdom two, in form like the other, 

 but confifting of one leafe deeply diuided into fiue parts,of a flefliy whife colour. 



i? This low fort of Ciftus hath many tough branches trailing vpon the ground, ofareddifli 

 colour,whereon grow fmall leaues like thofe of wilde Tyme,of a dark green co!our,very thick and 

 fat and* fomewhat hairy : the ftourcs grow at the top of the branches, of a gold yellow colour,con- 

 lifting of fiue fmall leaues of a very fweetfmell : the rootisthicke>hard,and wooddy. 



14 This ftrange and rare plant of Libels obferuation I haue thought meet to infert am Dng the 

 kindesof Ciftus,asa friend ofthcirs 5 if not one of thckinde:ithath leaues like the male Ciftu^ 

 (thefirft in this chapter defcribed)but more hairy,bcaring at the topof his branches a fmall knop 

 in (hapc like a rotten Strawbery,but not of the fame fubftance,for it is com pad of a fcaly or chaf- 

 fic mattcr/uch as is in the midft of the Camomill floures, and of a ruffct colour. 





f 4 Cijius exctiens Lobclij. 



Lobels ftrange Ciftus. 



j 6 Myrtociftns Th. ftnnti Angli, 



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1 5 The adulterine or counterfeit Ciftus grcwes to the height of a hedge bu'rti : the branches? 

 are long and brittlc,whereon grow leaues like thofe of the willow,of an ouerworn ru (Tet colour: the 

 floures are fmall,confiftingof fiue little yellow leaues : the whole plant being well viewed fcemes 

 to be a wiIlow,but at the firft fight one of the Ciftus 5 fo that it is a plant participating of both:the 

 toot is wooddy, % B whine iudges this (which our Author out ofTdern. figured and named C/- 

 ftn tdtdterinus) to be the Ciftus fet forth in the eight place of the next chapter faue otic : but I ra 

 ther iudsc it to be the Ledum Sileftacum fet forth in the eJeuenth place of that chaptered again in 



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-~ * w « ^iwc Of Ciftus, which D r Penny a famous Phyfition of London deceafed did ga 



v pon the lfland of Majorca,and called by the name «»•», in Latin, Myrtociftus Bale ^ ic4 ' is ^^ n i 

 gtowing to the height of three cubits,hauing a very rough bark, befet round about with r °*? ^ 

 tabbed vrarts.which baike wil of it feife cafily fall away from the old branches or bougncs ^ 



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