406 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers, 



or double Honifuckles. The others, as they are rare, and little knowne, fo 

 are their names alfo : yet according to their Latine, I haue giuen them 

 Englifh names. 



The Vertues. 



The double Honifuckle is as effeftuall in all things, as the fingle wilde 

 kinde, and belides, is an efpeciall good wound herbe for the head or other 

 parts. I haue not knowne the vpright kindes vfed in Phylicke. 



CHAP. CVI. 

 lafminum Jiue Gelfeminum. lafmine or Gefmine. 



WE haue but one fort of true lafmine ordinarily in our Gardens through- 

 out the whole Land ; but there is another greater fort, which is farre 

 more tender, brought out of Spaine, and will hardly endure any long 

 time with vs, vnlefle it be very carefully preferued. Wee haue a third kinde called a 

 yellow lafmine, but differeth much from their tribe in many notable points : but be- 

 caufe the flowers haue fome HkenefTe with the flowers of the true lafmine, it hath been 

 vfually called a lafmine ; and therefore I am content for this Garden to conioyne 

 them in one Chapter. 



i . lafminum album. The white lafmine. 



The white lafmine hath many twiggy flexible greene branches, comming forth of 

 the fundry bigger boughes or ftems, that rife from the roote, which are couered with 

 a grayim darke coloured barke, hauing a white pith within it like the Elder, but not fo 

 much : the winged leaues ftand alwaies two together at the ioynts, being made of ma- 

 nie fmall and pointed leaues, fet on each fide of a middle ribbe, fix moft vfually on 

 both fides, with one at the end, which is larger, more pointed then any of the reft, 

 and of a darke greene colour : at the toppes of the young branches ftand diuers flow- 

 ers together, as it were in an vmbell or tuft, each whereof ftandeth on a long greene 

 ftalke, comming out of a fmall huske, being fmall, long, and hollow belowe, ope- 

 ning into fiue white fmall, pointed leaues, of a very ftrong fweete fmell, which fall 

 away without bearing any fruit at all, that euer I could learne in our Country ; but in 

 the hot Countries where it is naturall, it is faid to beare flat fruit, like Lupines : the 

 rootes fpread farre and deepe, and are long and hard to growe, vntill they haue taken 

 ftrong hold in the ground. 



2. lafminum Catalonicum. The Spanifh lafmine. 



This Catalonia lafmine groweth lower then the former, neuer rifing halfe fo high, 

 and hath flender long greene branches, rifing from the toppe of the wooddy ftemme, 

 with fuch like leaues fet on them as the former, but fomewhat fhorter and larger : the 

 flowers alfo are like vnto the former, and ftand in the fame manner at the end of the 

 branches, but are much larger, being of a blufh colour before they are blowne, and 

 white with blufh edges when they are open, exceeding fweete of fmell, more ftrong 

 then the former. 



3. lafminum luteum, Jiue Tri folium fruticans alijs Polemonium. 

 The yellow lafmine. 



This that is called the yellow lafmine, hath many long flender twiggy branches ri- 

 fing from the roote, greene at the firft, and couered with a darke grayim barke after- 

 wards, whereon are fet at certaine diftances, three fmall darke greene leaues together, 

 the end leafe being alwaies the biggeft : at the ioynts where the leaues come forth, 



ftand 



