424 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



heads, containing fuch fmall brownifh feede as is in the former male kinde : the roote 

 is woody, and fpreadeth vnder ground, abiding fome yeares, if it be placed vnder a 

 wall, where it may bee defended from the windes that often breake it, and from the 

 extremitie of our winters, and efpecially the fnow, if it lye vpon it, which quickly 

 caufeth it to perifh. 



6. Ledum Alpinum feu Rofa Alpina. The Mountaine fweet Holly Rofe. 



The fragrant fmell with properties correfpondent of two other plants, caufeth me 

 to infert them in this Chapter, and to bring them to your knowledge, as well worthy 

 a fit place in our Garden. The firft of them hath diuers flender woody branches, two 

 foote high or thereabouts, couered with a grayifh coloured barke, and many times 

 leaning downe to the ground, whereby it taketh roote againe : vpon thefe branches 

 grow many thicke, fhort, hard greene leaues, thicke fet together, confufedly without 

 order, fometimes whitifh vnderneath, and fometimes yellowifh : the toppes of the 

 branches are loden with many flowers, which caufe them to bend downwards, being 

 long, hollow and reddifh, opening into fiue corners, fpotted on the outfide with many 

 white fpots, and of a paler red colour on the infide, of a fine fweet fent : after the 

 flowers are part, there follow fmall heads, containing fmall brownifh feede : the root 

 is long, hard and woody, abiding better if it comprehend in the ground, then fome of 

 the former, becaufe his original! is out of a colder country. 



7. Ledum Silejiacum. The fweete Mary Rofe, 

 or Rofemary of Silefia. 



This other fweete plante rifeth vp with woody afh-coloured branches two foote 

 high or more, which fhoote forth other branches, of a reddifh or purplifh colour, co- 

 uered with a brownifh yellow hoarinefle, on which are fet many narrow long greene 

 leaues, like vnto Rofemary leaues, but couered with the like hoarinefle as the ftalks are 

 (efpecially in the naturall places, but not fo much being tranfplanted) and folding the 

 fides of the leaues fo clofe together, that they feeme nothing but ribbes, or ftalkes, of 

 an excellent fweet and pleafant fent ; at the ends of the branches there grow certaine 

 brownifh fcaly heads, made of many fmall leaues fet thicke together, out of which 

 breake forth many flowers, (landing in a tuft together, yet feuerally euery one vpon 

 his owne footftalke, confiding of fiue white leaues, with certaine white threds in the 

 middle, fmelling very fweete: after which rife fmall greene heads, fpotted with 

 brownifh fpots, wherein is contained very fmall, long, yellowifh feede : the roote is 

 hard and woodie. 



The Place. 



The firft, fecond, fourth and fifth, grow in the hot Countries, as Italic, 

 Spaine, &c. The third, and the two laft in the colder Countries, as Frife- 

 land, Germanic, Bohemia. 



The Time. 



They do all flower in the Summer moneths of lune, luly and Auguft, and 

 their feede is ripe quickly after. 



The Names. 



The firft, fecond, fourth and fift, haue their names fufHciently exprefled 

 in their descriptions. The third was fent vnto Clufius, vnder the name of 

 Herculus Frijicus, becaufe of the ftrong fent : but he referreth it to the kinds 

 of Chamaciftus, that is, dwarfe or low Ciftus, both for the low growth, and 

 for the flowers and feede fake. The fixt is diuerfly called ; for Clufius calleth 

 it Ledum Alpinum : others, Nerium Alpinum, making it to bee a Rofe Bay. 



Gefner 





