398 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



long, weake, {lender, but yet tough branches lying vpon the ground, diuided vfually 

 into other fmaller branches, whereon growe many, fmall, long, and fomewhat thicke 

 leaues, fomewhat like vnto the leaues of the former Mezereon, fet without any order 

 to the very tops, from whence doe come forth a tuft of many fmall flowers together, 

 made or confiding of foure leaues a peece, of a bright red or carnation colour, and very 

 fweete withall, which turne into fmall round whitifh berries, wherein is contained 

 fmall round feede, couered with a grayifh coate or skinne : the roote is long and yel- 

 lowifh, fpreading diuers wayes vnder the ground, and abideth many yeares (hooting 

 forth new branches. 



Fkre albo. It hath becne obferued in fome of thefe plants, to bring forth white flowers, not 



differing in any thing elfe. 



The Place. 



The firft forts growe plentifully in many places of Germany. The fe- 

 cond in the mountaines by Sauoye. The third in Prouence and Spaine. 

 The laft in diuers parts of Germany, Bohemia, and Auftria, and about 

 Franckford. 



The Time. 



The two firft forts are moft vfually in flower about Chriftmas, or in Ia- 

 nuary, if the weather be not violent, and fometimes not vntill February. 

 The fecond flowreth not vntill Aprill. The third in May. The berries of 

 them ripen fome in lune and luly ; fome in Auguft and September, as 

 their flowring is earlier or later. The laft flowreth as well in the Spring as 

 in Autumne, fo apt and plentifull it is in bearing, and the feede at both 

 times doth ripen foone after. 



The Names. 



The firft is called of fome Chanuzleea, with this addition Germanica, that 

 it may differ from the third, which is the true Chamceltea of Diofcorides, 

 as all the beft Authors doe agree, and is alfo called Piper montanum of the 

 Italians. It is generally called Mezereon, and is indeede the true Mezereon 

 of the Arabians, and fo vfed in our Apothecaries mops, wherefoeuer the 

 Arabians Mezereon is appointed, although the Arabians are fo intricate and 

 vncertaine in the defcriptions of their plants, confounding Ghanuzlcea and 

 T'hymczltza together. Matthiolus maketh it to be Daphnoides of Diofcorides ; 

 but in my opinion he is therein miftaken : for all our beft moderne Wri- 

 ters doe account our Laureola, which hath blacke berries, to bee the true 

 Daphnoides : the errour of his Countrey might peraduenture drawe him 

 thereunto ; but if hee had better confidered the text of Diofcorides, that 

 giueth black berries to Daphnoides, and red to Chamadaphne, he would not fo 

 haue written ; and truly, I mould thinke (as Lobel doth) with better reafon, 

 that this Cham<zl<za were Diofcorides Chamadaphne, then hee to fay it were 

 Daphnoides : for the defcription of Chamtzdaphne, may in all parts be very fitly 

 applyed to this Chameelcea : and euen thefe words, Semen annexum folijs, 

 wherein may be the greateft doubt in the defcription, may not vnfitly bee 

 conftrued, that as is feene in the plant, the berries growe at the foote of the 

 leaues, about the branches: the faculties indeede that Diofcorides giueth 

 to Chamczdaphne, are (if any repugnancie be) the greateft let or hinderance, 

 that this Cham<zl<za mould not be it : but I leaue the difcuffing of thefe and 

 others of the like nature, to our learned Phyfitians ; for I deale not fo much 

 with vertues as with defcriptions. The fecond is called of Lobel Chanuzlcza 

 Alpine incana, of Clufius Chanuzleza fecunda, and faith hee had it out of Italy. 

 Wee may call it in Englifh, Mountaine Spurge Oliue, as it is in the defcrip- 

 tion, or Mountaine Laurell, which you will. The laft hath the name of 

 Cneorum, firft giuen it by Matthiolus, which fince is continued by all others. 

 Bauhinus (as I faid) referreth it to the Mountaine Campions, but Clufius 



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