FLORA. : Book f. 
CH AP; XL; 
R= ser Aving now fet down all the belt flower bearing 
se Fe: } 
IS feiss £4" Plants that are permanent,we will conclude this Book 
ie) BS BSL wich fome {weet Herbs,and fuch only as are worthily 
py) We Ee received by the Colle@ors of flowers, which done, re- 
Sree fer you to Ceres, who ‘will acquaint you inthe next 
book with her beft feedlings. , | 
| aS Marum. 
PA Melick rifeth about a foot high 5 with ftiff hard ftalks di- 
vided into many branches, thinly fet with {mall green leaves, two 
atevery joynt; atthe tops of the ftalks , and branches, come forth 
(mall white fowers among a tuft of white downy threds ; the whole 
Plant is of fweet and pleafant {cent, J one veeen 
Mardm Syriacum. > Se ee 
Aspe Maftick groweth not fo tall as the former, the leaves 
{maller, whiter, and thicker fet onthe branches , like thoie o 
Myrtle, at the tops of the ftalks ftand many green knaps or heads, 
like thofe of fieet-Margerom , but bigger and greener 5, theroot is 
woody, and the whtole Plant of adelicate {weer feent, very tender 
and impatient. of cold, and therefore muft be fer ina potyand not 
houfed in Winter, ut ordered as is directed for flos Cardinal» , and 
carefully defended from Cats, that elfe will eatand deftroy ic, : 
| Salvia. 
Age is of many forts, but thofe fitteft for this place are the varie= 
J gated great Sages, the one marked with white , the other with 
yellow, and the fmall {weet Sages the variegated arecommon , burt 
thefmall morerare, There arefeveral forts of {mall Sage, but that’ 
here intended is a {mall tender Plant of a musky {weet fcent, far ex- 
celling all the other, | 
Majorana. te hes 
Me™ is likewife of divers forts , but that called Winter 
fweet- Margerom is moft efteemed , there are of this two forts, 
but the beft hath {maller and browner green leaves than the other, 
and as fweet as that yearly raifed of feeds, 
Pulegiums 
