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FLORA. Book I. 
CHAP. Y;: 
Rae cent Aving done with fo many of the flower-bearing Trees 
BS) falas CF and Shrubs as we intended for this place, we will 
ae treat of fome other woody flower-bearing Plants, 
AS 29 elt that (being Climbers) ferve conveniently to cover 
e225 Somer-bowers: and firft we will begin with the Faf- 
wines, whereof thereare divers excellent varieties, moft of them 
peculiar to fuch Countries, where the benignity of the Air and fer- 
tility of the Soil is agreeable with fuch delicate and tender Conftitu- 
tions: and although we cannot expect {uch rare Plants to profper in 
our cold Country, yet there are fome of this kind contented to live 
withus; with which andfome others more tender, together with 
Weood-binds and Virgins-bower, thisChapter will acquaint you, and 
firft wich the moft common, 
Jafminum album. 
TH white F afmine hath divers ~~ flexible branches, that come. 
forth of the bigger boughs, which proceed from the root, fet 
with winged leaves of adark green colour, ftanding two together.at 
the joynts, made of many fmall-pointed leaves fet on each fide of a 
middlerib, ufually three omafide,, and one bigger and more pointed 
at theend: at the tops of the young branches divers :flowers come 
forth together inatutt, each ona long foot-ftalk, which are fmall, “ 
jong and hollow, opening into fine white-pointed leaves, and of a 
ftrong {weet fcent, which with us fall away without bringing feed, 
5ranchn 
TOW 
Jafminum Catalonicum. 
W kes: Catalonian or Spanifh fafmine rifeth not half fo highas the 
former, the branches and green leaves arelike, but larger and 
fhorter, the flowers are of the fame fafhion, but much bigger, and 
before they are open of a bluth colour, and after white with bluth 
edges, more fweet than thofe of the former, 
Jafminim Eiifpanicum multiplex. 
aps double Spanilh Fa mineis in the mannet of growing like unto 
the laft, the greate difference isin the flowers, which of this 
are white like the firft, but bigger and double, confifting of two 
rows of leaves, with fome fmaller. coming forthof the middle, or 
hollow bofoms of the flowers, which are as fweet as thofe of the 
ee Fafminum lutenm. 
T He yellow Fa/mine hath many long flender woody branches, ri- 
-& fing from theroot, fet acdiftances with three fmall dark green, 
ee | -— leaves 
