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CHAP. CII. 

 Clematis. Clamberers, or Creepers. 



HAuing (hewed you all my (tore of herbes bearing fine flowers, let mcc now 

 bring to your confideration the reft of thofe plants, be they Shrubs or Trees, 

 that are cherilhed in our garden, for the beauty of their flowers chiefly, or for 

 fome other beautiful! refpecl : and firft I will begin with fuch as creepe on the ground, 

 without climing, and then fuch as clime vp by poles, or other things, that are fet or 

 grow neere them, fit to make Bowers, and Arbours, or elfe are like them in forme, in 

 name, or fome other fuch qualitie or propertie. 



i . Clematis Daphnoides, Jiue Vinca peruinca Jimp lex minor diuer forum color urn. 

 Single Perwinkle of diuers colours. 



The fmaller Perwinkle which not onely groweth wilde in many places, but is mort 

 vfuall in our Gardens, hath diuers creeping branches, trayling or running vpon the 

 ground, (hooting out fmall fibres at the ioynts, as it creepeth, taking thereby hold in 

 the ground, and rooteth in diuers places : at the ioynts of thefe branches ftand two 

 fmall darke greene (hining leaues, fomewhat like vnto fmall Baye leaues, but fmaller, 

 and at the ioynts likewife with the leaues, come forth the flowers, one at a ioynt, ftan- 

 ding vpon a tender footeftalke, being fomewhat long and hollow, parted at the brims, 

 fometimes into foure leaues, and fometimes into hue, the moft ordinary fort is of a 

 pale or bleake blew colour, but fome are pure white, and fome of a darke reddifh pur- 

 ple colour : the root is in the body of it, little bigger then a rufh, bufhing in the ground, 

 and creeping with his branches farre about, taking roote in many places, whereby it 

 quickely poflefleth a great compafle ; and is therefore moft vfually planted vnder 

 hedges, or where it may haue roome to runne. 



2. Vinca peruinca Jiore duplici purpureo. 

 Double purple Perwinkle. 



The double Perwinkle is like vnto the former fingle kinde, in all things except in 

 the flower, which is of that darke reddifh purple colour that is in one of the fingle 

 kindes ; but this hath another row of leaues within the flower, fo that the two rowes 

 of leaues caufeth it to be called double, but the leaues of thefe are lefler then the fin- 

 gle. I haue heard of one with a double white flower, but I haue not yet feene it. 



3. Clematis Daphnoides jiue Peruinca maior. 

 The greater Perwinkle. 



This greater Perwinkle is fomewhat like the former, but greater, yet his branches 

 creepe not in that manner, but ftand more vpright, or lefle creeping at the leaft : the 

 leaues alfo hereof ftand by couples at the ioynts, but they are broader and larger by 

 the halfe : the flowers are larger, confifting of fiue leaues that are blew, a little deeper 

 then the former blew : this plant is farre tenderer to keepe then the other, and there- 

 fore would ftand warme, as well as in a moift fhadowie place. 



4. Clematis alter a fiue vrens Jiore albo. 

 Burning Clamberer, or Virgins Bower. 



This Caufticke or burning Climer, hath very long and climing tender branches, 

 yet fomewhat woody below, which winde about thofe things that ftand neere it, co- 

 uered with a brownifh greene barke, from the ioynts whereof fhoote forth many 

 winged leaues, confifting for the moft part of fiue fingle leaues, that is, two and two 

 together, and one at the end, which are a little cut in or notched on the edges here and 



there, 



