Chap.V1. FLO R A. 
Flaxinella flore dlbo. 
Bttee Dittany with awhite flower hath the leaves and ftalks of 2 
frefher green colour than any of the former, and the flowers 
white, and not altogether fo big, in no other thing differing from the 
ormer, 
Fraxinella flore albo ceruleo. 
B4 ftard Dittany with an Afh-eolonred flower differeth onely from 
the laft in the colour of the flowers, thofe of this being ofa pale 
blue or Ath colour : there is alfo another variety of this, raifed from 
the feeds of this kind, which is leffer in all the parts thereof than any 
of the other, and the flowers are ofa bleak blue colour, ftriped with 
adeeper blue or violet colour, 
Having now done with the varieties of the ftately, though ftrong- 
{cented Fraxinella, we will conclude withakind or two of fweet- 
{melling Ciftws, leaving the many other diverfities to their natural 
habitations, being Plants fo tender, that the trouble in keeping 
them would be more than the pleafure of having them, 
He male Ciftus isafmallthrubby Plant, growing with us about 
three or four foot high, having many flender brittle woody 
branches, covered witha whitith bark, whereon are fet many long 
and fomerhing narrow whitith green leaves, crumpled and fomething 
hard in handling, two ftanding at every joynt; the flowers come 
forth at the ends of the branches, three or four together upon. flen- 
der foot-ftalks, each confifting of five fmall round leaves, like uato 
a fmall fingle Rofe, ofa fine reddith. purple colour, with many yel- 
low threds in the middle, which foon fall away, and are fi scceedad by 
round hard hairy heads, containing {mall brown feeds, eee” 
Ciftus Ledon. 
He Gum Ciftus rifeth higher and fpreadeth more than. the for= 
pes with my lack woody branches, whereon are fet di- 
vers long narrow dar green leaves, but whiter 
ftanding two together at every joynt ;_ theftalkkan 
dewed with a clammy fweet moifture, but much more in hot Coun- 
tries chanin ours, which being artificially taken off, is that blaek 
fweet Gum called Ladanum: at the tops of the branches ftand fingle 
white flowers, larger than thofe of the former, like fingle Rofes 
with five leaves, each having at the bottom a dark purplith {por, 
broad below and pointed upwards, with fome yellow threds in the 
middle; after the flowersare paft, cornered heads fucceed, wherein ig 
contained {mall brownith feeds, like thofe of the former, 
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