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Myrtus Latifolia. 
— Broad-leafed Myrtle groweth inathick buth, fometimes fout 
or five foot high, full of branches fet with fine bright-fhining, 
{weet, and ever-green leaves, fomewhat broad and long; at the 
joynts of the branches come forth the flowers, compofed of fine 
{mall white leaves, with fome white threds inthe middle, and very 
fweet , the roots confifting of many ftrings and fibres, as all Trees, 
Shrubs, and Wood-plants do, 
Myrtus minore folio. 
He Leffer-leafed Myrtle groweth like the former, bite not fo 
high the leaves are thicker on the branches, and {maller point- 
ed at theends, likethem, but of adeeper green colour, in other 
refpedts little differing, , 
Myrtus rotundiore folio. 
He Box-Leafed Myrtle differeth onely from the laff defcribed, in 
that the leaves of this are round-pointed, like unto the leaves of 
Box, inall other parts agreeing, ‘There is another narrow-leafed 
Myrtle, with {mall fharp-poiated leaves and branches erect , for 
which it is called the wpright Myrtle, and we have another with nar- 
row leaves, thick fet with clofe-compacted» branches,..whence cal- 
led the Birds-neft Myrtle. 7 eee eS: 
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Myrtus latifolia flore pleno. 
He double- flowered Myrtle inthe manner of growing and green 
leaves is like unto the firft defcribed, onely as itis more tender, 
it groweth neither fo large nor tall ; the chiefeft difference is in the 
flowers, which in this are white like thofe of the other, bus very thick 
and double, and of a delicate {weet fent, 
Myrtws Betica latifolia. 
a By great Spanifhor Laurel-leafed Myrtle is bigger in all the parts 
than any of the former; it rifech to the height ofa Man, and 
the leaves are like thofe of the Bay, but ofa whiter green colour 
fet inadouble row on both fides the branches, {weet in fent, and in 
flowers and fruit litle differing from the firft defcribed, | 
_ Thefe are the varieties of myrtles preferved in Cafes by our heft 
Floriffs, and diligently houfed in Winter, yet che laft is more hardy, 
and with any care will endure (planted at large) the violence of Win- _ 
ter, We fhall now fubjoyn two other fine Greens, and fo conclude 
this Chapter, ait 
Gelfiminum 
