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leaves together, the middle or end-leaf being the biggelt: at the 
joynts where the leaves come forth. ftand lo ftalks, bearing {mall 
long hollow flowers, ending in five, and fometimes fix, yellow 
leaves: after the flowers are paft, round black-fhining berries {ucceed 
them ; theroots are tough and white, creeping in the ground, and 
coming ap.in divers places much incteafing, 
Fafminum Indicum flore pheniceo. 
He Indian {earlet Fafmine, from alarge {pread root, confifting 
of many great fibres and {maller ftrings; cometh up ofe, twa, 
or more flexible branches, nor able to fuftain themfelves without the 
help of fomething to fapport them, putting forth at every joynt 
fome {mall hore tendrils, whereby it will ftrongly faften unto any 
woody fubftance : at the joynts come forth two winged leaves, 
which are as large almoft as Rofe leaves, full of veins, and finely 
nicked on the fides, which moft ufually ftand three ona fide and one 
at the end, which are veddith at the firft; but afterwards of a fair yel- 
lowith green colour ; the fowers come forth at the ends of the bran- 
ches many together, which are long likea Fox-glove, opening at 
the ends into five fair broad leaves, like unto that of the Gentianella, 
witha ftile and {mall threds in the middle, of a yellow or Saffron.co- 
Jour ; in fome Plants the flowers have {mall red.Jines on the infides 
sheet others ofa deep dark {carler colour, veined with {mall yel- 
Ow ulnes, rT . 
Thefe are the varieties of fafmines growing in our Englith Gar- 
dens, unto which we will infert fome other woody climbing flower- 
bearing Plants, which feem conveniently to cover and beautifie 
fome Bowers, as 
Periclimenum per foliatum. 
f Bie double Honifuckle, whichis fo common that it needeth no de- 
{cription, it is very fit to cover an Arbour in refpeét of the much 
{preading thereof; and the multitude of {weet flowers grow in five or 
{tories one above another, with round green leaves circling the 
ftalk becwixt every roundle of flowers, which are of rhe form of the 
wilde Honifuckle, but fairer, yellower, and much {weeter, | 
| Periclimenum Italicum flore rubro. _— 
ee ved Italian Honifuckle groweth fomechin like the wide kind, 
4 with fuch green leaves, but-redder branches, {preading very 
much, fo that two Plants (one of the former and another of this) 
are futficient to cover a large Arbour : the flowers of this are very 
many, coming forth together in great tufts from the ends and_ 
of the red branches, which are longer and better formed than thofe 
of the other, which at firft, before they are fully facta sd 
ofa fine red colour, but afterwards ropes yellow about t ie 
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