392 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



there, but euery part of them is lefler then the leaues of the next following Climer, 

 without any clafping tendrels to winde about any thing at all : towards the vpper part 

 of the branches, with the faid leaues, come forth long ftalks, whereon ftand many white 

 flowers cluftering together, opening the brims into fixe or eight fmall leaues, fprea- 

 ding like a ftarre, very fweet of fmell, or rather of a ftrong heady fent, which after 

 turne into flattifh and blackifh feede, plumed at the head, which plume or feather fly- 

 eth away with the winde after it hath flood long, and leaueth the feede naked or bare : 

 the roote is white and thicke, flefhie and tender, or eafie to be broken, as my felfe can 

 well teftifie, in that defiring to take a fucker from the roote, I could not handle 

 it fo tenderly, but that it broke notwithstanding all my care. Mafter Gerard in his 

 Herball maketh mention of one of this kinde with double white flowers, which hee 

 faith he recouered from the feede was fent him from Argentine, that is Strasborough, 

 whereof hee fetteth forth the figure with double flowers : but I neuer faw any fuch 

 with him, neither did I euer heare of any of this kinde with double flowers. Clufius 

 indeed faith, that hee receiued from a friend fome feede vnder the name of Clematis 

 JJore albo plena : but he doubteth whether there bee any fuch : the plants that fprang 

 with him from that feede, were like vnto the vpright kinde called Flammila Matthioli, 

 or louts cre/ta, as he there faith : but affuredly I haue beene informed from fome of my 

 efpeciall friends beyond Sea, that they haue a double white Clematis, and haue promi- 

 fed to fend it ; but whether it will be of the climing or vpright fort, I cannot tell vntill 

 I fee it : but furely I doe much doubt whether the double will giue any good feede. 



5. Clematis a Itera Jiue peregrina JJore rubro. Red Ladies Bower. 



This Climer hath many limber and weake climing branches like the former, coue- 

 red with a browne thin outer barke, and greene vnderneath : the leaues ftand at the 

 ioynts, confiding but of three leaues or parts, whereof fome are notched on one fide, 

 and fome on both, without any clafping tendrels alfo, but winding with his branches 

 about any thing ftandeth next vnto it : the flowers in like manner come from the fame 

 ioynts with the leaues, but not fo many together as the former vpon long footftalkes, 

 confifting of foure leaues a peece, {landing like a crofle, of a darke red colour ; the 

 feed is flat and round, and pointed at the end, three or foure or more {landing clofe to- 

 gether vpon one ftalk, without any doune vpon them at all, as in the former : the roots 

 are a bundell of brownim yellow ftrong firings, running down deep into the ground, 

 from a bigge head aboue. 



6. Clematis peregrina JJore pur pur eo Jimp lid. 

 Single purple Ladies Bower. 





This Ladies Bower differeth in nothing from the laft defcribed, but onely in the 

 colour of the flower, which is of a fad blewifh purple colour ; fo that the one is not 

 poflible to be known from the other, vntill they be in flower. 



7. Clematis peregrina Jiore purpureo plena. 

 Double flowred purple Ladies Bower. 



This double Clematis hath branches and leaues fo neere refembling the fingle kinds, 

 that there can be knowne no difference, vnlefle it be, that this groweth more goale and 

 great, and yeeldeth both more flore of branches from the ground, and more fpreading 

 aboue : the chiefefl marke to diflinguifh it is the flower, which in this is very thicke 

 and double, confifting of a number of fmaller leaues, fet clofe together in order in the 

 middle, the foure outermoft leaues that encompafle them, being much broader and 

 larger then any of the inward, but all of a dull or fad blewifh purple colour, the points 

 or ends of the leaues feeming a little darker then the middle of them : this beareth 

 no feede that euer I could fee, heare of, or learne by any of credit, that haue nourfed 

 it a great while; and therefore the tales of falfe deceitfull gardiners, and others, that 

 diliuer fuch for truth, to deceiue perfons ignorant thereof, mufl not bee creduloufly 

 entertained, 



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