422 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



out any fent at all, and quickly fading or falling away, abiding feldome one whole 

 day blowne at the moft : after the flowers are part, there come vp round hard hairie 

 heads in their places, containing fmall brownifh feede : the roote is wooddy, and 

 will abide fome yeares with vs, if there be fome care had to keepe it from the extrea- 

 mity of our Winters froftes, which both this, and many of the other forts and kinds, 

 will not abide doe what we can. 



2. Cijlus famina. The female Holly Rofe. 



The female Holly Rofe groweth lower, and fmaller then the former male kinde, 

 hauing blackifh branches, lefle woody, but not lefle brittle then it : the leaues are fome- 

 what rounder and greener, but a little hard or rough withall, growing in the fame man- 

 ner vpon the branches by couples : the flowers grow at the toppes of the branches, 

 like vnto the former, confiding of fiue leaues, but fomewhat lefler, and wholly white, 

 with yellow threds in the middle, as quickly fading, and of as little fent as the former : 

 the heads and feede are fomewhat bigger then in the former. 



3. Chamacijlus Frifaus. The dwarfe Holly Rofe of Frifeland. 



This dwarfe Ciftus is a fmall low plant, hauing diuers fhootes from the rootes, full 

 of leaues that are long and narrow, very like vnto the leaues of the French Spikenard 

 or Spica Celtica ; from among which leaues fhoote forth fhort ftalkes, not aboue a fpan 

 high, with a few fmaller leaues thereon ; and at the toppes diuers fmall flowers one a- 

 boue another, confiding of fix fmall round leaues, of a yellow colour, hauing two cir- 

 cles of reddifh fpots round about the bottome of the leaues, a little diftant one from 

 another, which adde much grace to the flower : after the flowers are part, there come 

 in their places fmall round heads, being two forked at the end containing within them 

 fmall brownifh chaffie feede : the roote is fmall and (lender, with many fibres thereat 

 creeping vnder ground, and mooting forth in diuers places, whereby it much encrea- 

 feth : the whole plant, and euery part of it, fmelleth drong without any pleafant fent. 



4. Cijlus annum. The Holly Rofe of a yeare. 



This fmall Ciftus that endureth but a year (and will require to be fowne euery year, 

 if ye will haue it) rifeth vp with ftraight, but (lender hard ftalkes, fet here and there con- 

 fufedly with long and narrow greenifh leaues, very like vnto the leaues of the Gum 

 Ciftus or Ledon, being a little clammy withall : at the toppe of the ftalkes, and at the 

 ioynts with the leaues, ftand two or three pale yellow flowers, confiding of fiue leaues 

 a peece, with a reddifh fpot neere the bottome of euery leafe of the flower, as quickely 

 fading as any of the former : after which follow fmall three fquare heades, containing 

 fmall feede, like vnto the firft female kinde, but fomewhat paler or yellower : the root 

 is fmall and woody, and perimeth as foone as it hath borne feede. 



5. Cijlus Ledon. The Gum Cidus, or Sweete Holly Rofe. 



This fweete Holly Rofe or Gum Cidus, rifeth higher, and fpreadeth larger then the 

 former male kind doth, with many blackifh woody branches, whereon are fet diuers 

 long and narrow darke greene leaues, but whitifh vnderneath, two alwayes danding 

 together at a ioint, both dalks and leaues bedeawed as it were continually with a clam- 

 my fweete moifture (which in the hot Countries is both more plentiful!, and more 

 fweet then in ours) almod tranfparent, and which being gathered by the inhabitants, 

 with certaine indruments for that purpofe (which in fome places are leather thongs, 

 drawne ouer the bufhes, and after fcraped off from the thongs againe, and put toge- 

 ther) is that kind of blacke fweet gum, which is called Ladanum in the Apothecaries 

 fhops : at the tops of the branches dand fingle white flowers, like vnto fingle Rofes, 

 being larger then in any of the former kindes, confiding of fiue leaues, whereof euery 

 one hath at the bottome a dark purplifh fpot, broad below, and fmall pointed vpwards, 

 with fome yellow threds in the middle : after which are pad, there arife cornered 



heads, 



