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clematis. Clamberers, or Creepers. 
H Ailing (hewed you all my (lore of herbes bearing fine flowers, letmeenow 
bring to your consideration the reft of thofeplants, be they Shrubs or Trees, 
that are cherifhed in our garden, for the beauty of their flowers chiefly, or for 
fome other beautifull refpeftiand firft I will begin with fuch as creepe on the ground 
without diming, and then fuch as clime vp by poles, or other things, thatarefecof 
grow neere them, fit to make Bovvers, and Arbours, or elfe arelikc them in forme, in 
name, or fome other fuch qualitie or propertic. 
I .Clematis Daphnoides , ft at Fine a peruinca fimplex miner diner forum colorum , 
Single Perwinkle of diuers colours. 
The fmaller Perwinkle which not onely groweth wilde in many places, but is moft 
vfuall in our Gardens, hath diuers creeping branches, tray ling or running vpon the 
ground, (hooting out fmall fibres at the ioy nts, aS it ereepeth, taking thereby hold in 
the ground, and raoteth in diuers places : at the ioyntsof thefe branches (land two 
fmall darke greene (hining leaues, fomewhat like vnto (mall Baye leaues, but fmaller, 
and at the ioy nts likewife with the leaues,come forth the flowers, one at a ioy nt, (lan- 
ding vpon a tender footeftalke, being fomewhat long and hollow, parted at the brims, 
fometimes intofoure leaues, and fometimes intofiue, the moft ordinary fort is of a 
pale or bleakc blew colour, but fome are pure white, and fome of a darke reddifb pur- 
ple colour: the root is in the body ofit, little bigger then a rufli, bulhing in the ground, 
and creeping with his branches farre about, taking roote in many places, whereby in 
quickely poflefleth a great compafle ; and is therefore moft: vfually. planted vnder 
hedges, or where it may haue roomc to runne. 
2 . Vinca peruinca flore duplici purpureo. 
Double purple Perwinkle. 
The double Perwinkle is like vnto the former (ingle kinde, inall things except in 
the flower, which is of that darke reddilh purple colour that is in one of the (ingle 
kindes 5 butthis hath another row of leaues within the flower, fo that the two rowes 
of leaues caufcth it to be called double, but the leaues of thefearelefter then the (in- 
gle. I haue heard of one with a double white flower, but I haue not yet feene it. 
3 . Clematis Daphnoides fiue Peruinca maior , 
The greater Perwinkle. 
This greater Perwinkle is fomewhat like the former, but greater, yet his branches 
creepenot in that manner, but (land more vpright, or lefte creeping at the lead : the 
leaues alfo hereof (land by couples at the ioynts, but they are broader and larger by 
the halfe : the flowers are larger, confiding of fiue leaues that are blew, a little deeper 
then the former blew : this plant is farretenderer to keepe then the other, and there- 
fore would (land warme, as well as in a moift (hadowie place. 
4. Clematis altera fiue vrens flore albo. 
Burning Clambercr, or Virgins Bower. 
This Caufticke or burning Climer, hath very long andcliming tender branches,’ 
yet fomewhat woody below, which winde about tbofe things that (land neere it, co- 
uered with a brownilh greene barke, from the ioynts whereof (hoote forth many 
winged leaues, confiding for the moft part of fiue Angle leaues, thatis, twoandtwa 
together, and one at the end, which are a little cut in or notched on the edges here and 
there, 
