334 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



foote high, the lower parts whereof are furnifhed with many winged leaues, fomewhat 

 like vnto Liquerice, or a fmall young Afhe tree, confiding of feuen, nine, or eleuen 

 leaues fet together, which are fomewhat large and long, hard and rough in handling, 

 of a darkifh greene colour, and of an vnpleafant ftrong refmous fent: the vpper parts 

 of the ftalkes are furnifhed with many flowers, growing fpike fafhion, at certaine di- 

 ftances one aboue another, confifting of fiue long leaues a peece, whereof foure that 

 Hand on the two fides, are fomewhat bending vpwards, and the fift hanging downe, 

 but turning vp the end of the leafe a little againe, of a faint or pale red colour, ftriped 

 through euery leafe with a deeper red colour, and hauing in the middle a taflell of fiue 

 or fix long purplifh threds, that bowe downe with the lower leafe, and turne vp alfo 

 the ends againe, with a little freefe or thrume at the ends of euery one : after the flowers 

 are paft, arife hard, ftiffe, rough, clammy huskes, horned or pointed at the end, foure or 

 fiue (landing together, fomewhat like the feede veffels of the Wolfes-banes, or Co- 

 lombines, but greater, thicker and harder, wherein is contained round mining blacke 

 feede, greater then any Colombine feede by much, and fmaller then Peony feede : 

 the roote is white, large, and fpreading many wayes vnder ground, if it ftand long : the 

 whole plant, as well roots as leaues and flowers, are of a ftrong fent, not fo pleafing for 

 the fmcll, as the flowers are beautifull to the fight. 



2. Fraxinella flore rubro. Baftard Dittaine with a red flower. 



This differeth not from the former eyther in roote, leafe or flower for the forme, 

 but that the ftalkes and leaues are of a darker greene colour, and that the flowers are of 

 a deeper red colour, (and growing in a little longer fpike), wherein the difference chief- 

 ly confifteth, which is fufficient to diftinguifh them. 



3. Fraxinella flort albo. Baftard Dittanie with a white flower. 



The white flowred Fraxinella hath his leaues and ftalkes of a frefher greene colour 

 then any of the former ; and the flowers are of a pure white colour, in forme diffe- 

 ring nothing at all from the other. 



4. Fraxinella fare albo ceeruleo. 

 Baftard Dittanie with an am coloured flower. 



The colour of the flower of this Fraxinella onely putteth the difference betweene 

 this, and the laft recited with a white flower : for this beareth a very pale, or whitifh 

 blew flower, tending to an afh colour. 



The Place. 



All thefe kindes are found growing naturally, in many places both of 

 Germany, and Italic : and that with the white flower, about Franckford, 

 which being fent me, perifhed by the way by long and euill carriage. 



The Time. 



They flower in lune and luly, and the feede is ripe in Auguft. 



The Names. 



The name Fraxinella is moft generally impofed on thofe plants, becaufe 

 of the refemblance of them vnto young Ames, in their winged leaues. Yet 

 fome doe call them DiStamus albus, or Dittamnus albus, and Diptamus albus, 

 as a difference from the DiSlamnus Creficus, which is a farre differing plant. 

 Some would haue it to be Tragium of Diofcorides, but befide other things 

 wherein this differeth from Tragium^ this yeeldeth no milkie iuice, as Dio- 

 fcorides faith Tragium doth : We in Englifh doe eyther call it Fraxinella, 

 or after the other corrupted name of Di&amus, Baftard Dittanie. 



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