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that I knowe of sorbus and the fourth kynde in Plinie is called 

 sorbus torminalis, in englishe a seruice tree. 



Spartum frutex. 



Spartium or spartum is not the Broume that we make besomes 

 of in Englande, but it is a bushe called of some gardiners frenche 

 broume. It groweth naturally by it selfe in mount Appennine, 

 and it is founde nowe in many gardines in England, in my Lordes 

 gardine at Shene, and in my Lorde Cobbams gardin a litle fro 

 Graues Ende. 



Spartum herba. 



Spartum is also an herbe as Plinie wryteth, by whose description 

 I gather that it Hs the rishe that the Fig frayles be made of. I 

 haue sene the rishe in the Ilandes of east Freseland, and the people 

 there make ropes of that rishe & thach their houses also wyth the 

 same. It may be called in english Frailbente. 



Spkondilium. 



Sphondilium is called in duche wylde Patency, ^ or wylde Beren- 

 klawe, in frenche Panate sauage. It may be called in englishe Cow- 

 persnepe or rough Persnepe. It groweth in watery middowes and 

 in ranke groundes about hedges. 



Spina alba. 



Spina alba mentioned in Columella is spina Appendix in Plinie, 

 and it is called in englishe an Hawthorne tree, or a whyte thorne, in 

 duche ein wissen dome, or ein Hagendorne. 



Stachys. 



Stachys semeth to Gesner to be the herbe that we cal in english 

 Ambrose, & I deni not but that it may be a kynde of it. Howe be 

 it I haue sene the true Italian staches, whiche hath narower and 

 whyter leaues then Ambrosa hath. It maye be named in englishe 



1 G V. ^ Pasteney. 



