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/w, which Lobcl fctteth forth for HyJ/opus Grercorum genuina : In Englifh Winter Mar- 

 icromc, or pot Marieromc : for it hath hro;idcr and greater leaues then the fweetc 

 Marierome, and a different vmhell or tuft of flowers. The difference of this from that 

 fet forth in the Kitchin Garden, conlilteth chiefly in the leaues, which are in Summer 

 wholly yellow in fome, or but a little grcene, or parted with yellow and greene more 

 or lefle, as nature lilteth to play : hut in Winter they are of a darke or dead greene co- 

 lour, yet recouering it felfe againe : the fent hereof is all one with the pot Marierome. 

 Wee haue another parted with white and greene, much after the manner with the 

 former. 



The Place, Time, Names, and Vertues of both thefe plants, (hall be de- 

 clared where the others of their kindes are fpccified hereafter, and in the 

 Kitchen Garden ; for they differ not in properties. 





CHAP. CXXVII. 

 Lauendula. Lauender Spike. 



AFter all thefe faire and fweete flowers before fpecified, I murt needes adde a 

 few fweete herbes, both to accomplifti this Garden, and to pleafe your fenfes, 

 by placing them in your Nofegays, or elfe where, as you lift. And although I 

 bring them in the end or laft place, yet are they not of the leaft account. 



i . Lauendula maior. ' Garden Lauender. 



Our ordinary Garden Lauender rifeth vp with a hard wooddy ftemme aboue the 

 ground, parted into many fmall branches, whereon are fet whitifh, long, and narrow 

 leaues, by couples one againft another ; from among which rifeth vp naked fquare 

 ftalkes, with two leaues at a ioynt, and at the toppe diuers fmall huskes ftanding round 

 about them, formed in long and round heads or f pikes, with purple gaping flowers 

 fpringing out of each of them : the roote is wooddy, and fpreadeth in the ground : 

 The whole plant is of a ftrong fweete fent, but the heads of flowers much more, and 

 more piercing the fenfes, which are much vfed to bee put among linnen and ap- 

 parrell. 



There is a kinde hereof that beareth white flowers, and fomewhat broader leaues, Flore aU>o. 

 but it is very rare, and feene but in few places with vs, becaufe it is more tender, and 

 will not fo well endure our cold Winters. 



2. Lauendula minor feu Spica. Small Lauender or Spike. 



The Spike or fmall Lauender is very like vnto the former, but groweth not fo high, 

 neither is the head or fpike fo great and long, but fhorter and fmaller, and of a more 

 purplifh colour in the flower : the leaues alfo are a little harder, whiter, and fhorter 

 then the former ; the fent alfo is fomewhat (harper and ftronger. This is not fo fre- 

 quent as the firft, and is nourifhed but in fome places that are warme, and where they 

 delight in rare herbes and plants. 



The Place. 



Lauender groweth in Spaine aboundantly, in many places fo wilde, 

 and little regarded, that many haue gone, and abiden there to diftill the oylc 

 thereof whereof great quantity now commeth ouer from thence vnto vs : 

 and alfo in Lanquedocke, and Prouence in France. 



The Time. 



It flowreth early in thofe hot Countries, but with vs not vntill lune and 

 luly. The 



