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FLOR 4. Book I. 
Syringa, five Gelfiminum Arabicum. 
f es double white Pipe-tree or. Falmine of Arabia isa rare and ten- 
der Shrub, much defired by all Flor#ffs > it hath divers long, 
flender, ftiff; woody branches, whereon grow marly fair large leaves, 
fomething refembling thofe of the common white Syringa, but 
{moother, larger, eaven at the edges; and ofa frefh green colour, 
two ftanding at every joyat one againft the other, and at each joynr 
contrary to other ; at the ends of the branches come forth divers 
flowers, ftanding on feveral foot-ftalks, each ina hofe, like thofe of 
the common white Fafmine, containing tair double flowers, confifting 
ef two, andfometimes three, rows ofround-pointed white leaves, 
each row containing five or fix leaves: the middle of the flower is 
hollow and fomething yellow, of a ftrong fweet fent, like unto that 
of orenge flowers, — 
Syringa laciniatis foliss, five Gelfiminum Perfieum. 
Maik blue Syringa with cut leaves, or Perfian fa{mine, cometh up 
with many fmall woody branches, finely decked with dainty 
greenleaves, which are {mall, long, cutin, and divided almoft to - 
the middle rib, fome into three {mall leaves on a fide, anda larger at 
the point, others into two, and fome have but one on each fide, and 
that bigger attheend, All thefe varieties are commonly to be feen 
in the leaves of this fine Plant ; at the end ‘of the branches come 
forth the flowers many together, in fafkion like unto thefe of the or- 
dinary blue Syringaor Lylac, but {maller, and of a finer purplith 
blue colour, and better fent, 
Oleafter exoticUss 
gs e ftrange wilde Olive, or Tree of Paradife, isa {weet and beau- 
tiful Plant, and, though a great ftranger, is contented with our 
homely entertainment: it rifeth up with woody fhoots, ofa dark 
yellowith colour, fet with long narrow whitifh green leaves, bearing 
ae the branches divers {mal] flowers, ofagreenith yellow colour, 
which (im its natural Countrey, but feldomwith us) are fucceeded 
by green berries like unto {mall o/ves, which when they are ripe will 
be of areddifh colour ; the whole Plant, as well leaves as flowers, 
isofaf{weet and pleafantfent. This owt of Ferrarius, : 
Cytifus Maranthe. 
H Orned Tree Trifoile rifeth four or five foot high, the body -fel- 
'dom bigger thana Mans Thumb, covered with a whitith bark, 
and the branches more white, the leaves ftand three together, lef- 
fer, rounder and whiter, than thofe of the ordinary Laburnum , the 
flowers are like thofe of Broom, of agold yellow colour, which in 
May come forth three or four together at the ends of the branches, 
: fucceeded 
