44-6 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



or the luiube tree : in the other he faith, that certain do affirme, that the Cyprus 

 of the Eart Country, and the Ligujlrum of Italy is one and the fame plant : 

 whereby you may plainly fee, that our Priuet which is Ligujlrum, cannot be 

 that Cyprus of Plinie with luiube leaues : Befides, both Diofcorides & Plinie 

 fay, that Cyprus is a tree ; but all know that Ligujlrum, Priuet, is but an hedge 

 bufh : Againe, Diofcorides faith, that the leaues of Cyprus giue a red colour, 

 but Priuet giueth none. Bellonius and Profper Alpinus haue both recor- 

 ded, that the true Cyprus of Diofcorides groweth plentifully in Egypt, Sy- 

 ria, and thofe Eafterne Countries, and nourfed vp alfo in Conftantinople, 

 and other parts of Greece, being a merchandife of much worth, in that they 

 tranfport the leaues, and young branches dryed, which laid in water giue a 

 yellow colour, wherewith the Turkifh women colour the nailes of their 

 hands, and fome other parts of their bodies likewife, delighting much 

 therein : and that it is not our Ligujlrum, or Priuet, becaufe Cyprus beareth 

 round white feede, like Coriander feede, and the leaues abide greene al- 

 waies vpon the tree, which groweth (if it bee not cut or pruined) to the 

 height of the Pomegranet tree. I haue (I confeffe) beyond the limits I fet for 

 this worke fpoken concerning our Priuet, becaufe I haue had the feede of 

 the true Cyprus of Diofcorides fent mee, which was much differing from 

 our Priuet, and although it fprang vp, yet would not abide any time, 

 whereas if it had beene our Priuet, it would haue beene familiar enough 

 to our Countrey. 



The Vertues. 



It is of fmall vfe in phyficke, yet fome doe vfe the leaues in Lotions, that 

 ferue to coole and dry fluxes or fores in diuers parts. 



CHAP. CXXVI. 



Saluia variegata. Party coloured Sage. And 

 Maiorana verjicolor Jiue aurea. Yellow or golden Marierome. 



VNto all thefe flowers of beauty and rarity, I muft adioyne two other plants, 

 whofe beauty confifteth in their leaues, and not in their flowers : as alfo to fe- 

 parate them from the others of their tribe, to place them here in one Chapter, 

 before the fweete herbes that mail follow, as is fitted to furnifh this our Garden of 

 pleafure. This kinde of Sage groweth with branches and leaues, very like the ordi- 

 nary Sage, but fomewhat fmaller, the chiefeft difference confifteth in the colour of 

 the leaues, being diuerfly marked and fpotted with white and red among the greene : 

 for vpon one branch you fhall haue the leaues feuerally marked one from another, as 

 the one halfe of the leafe white, and the other halfe greene, with- red fhadowed ouer 

 them both, or more white then greene, with fome red in it, either parted or fhadowed, 

 or dafht here and there, or more greene then white, and red therein, eyther in the mid- 

 dle or end of the leafe, or more or leffe parted or ftriped with white and red in the 

 greene, or elfe fometimes wholly greene the whole branch together, as nature lifteth 

 to play with fuch varieties : which manner of growing riflng from one and the fame 

 plant, becaufe it is the more variable, is the more delightfull and much refpefted. 



There is another fpeckled Sage parted with white and greene, but it is nothing of 

 that beauty to this, becaufe this hath three colours euidently to bee difcerned in euery 

 leafe almoft, the red adding a fuperaboundant grace to the reft. 



Maiorana aurea Jiue verjicolor. Yellow or golden Marierome. 



This kinde of Marierome belongeth to that fort is called in Latine Maiorana latifo- 



lia, 



