7 he (jar den of p lea} ant Flowers. 
there, but euery part of them is letter then the leaues of the next following Climer, 
without any clafping tendrels to winde about any thing at all : towards the vpper part 
of the branches, with the faid leaucs,come forth long ftalks,wheron ftand many white 
flowers cluttering together, opening the brims into fixe or eight fntall lcaucs, fprea- 
dinglikeaftarre, vcryfweetof fmell, or rather of a ftrOng heady fent, which after 
turne into flattifh and blackifb feede, plumed at the head, which plume or feather fly- 
eth away with the winde after it hath flood long, and leaueth the feede naked orbare : 
the roote is white and thicke, flefhie and tender, or cafic to be broken, as my felfe can 
well teftifie, in that defiring to take a fucker from the roote, I could not handle 
itfotenderly, but that it broke notwithftanding all my care. Matter Gerard in his 
Herbal! maketh mention of one of this kinde with double white flowers, which hee 
faith he recoucred from the feede was fent him from Argentine, that is Strasborough, 
whereof hee fetteth forth the figure with double flowers : but Ineuerfawanyfuch 
with him, neither did I euerheare of any of this kinde with double flowers. Clufius 
indeed faith, that hee receiucd from a friend fome feede vndcr the name of clematis 
fiorc albtfleno : but hedoubteth whether there bee any fuch : the plants that fprang 
with him from that feede, were like vnto the vpright kinde called fiammila Mauhioli, 
or louis crests, as he there faith : but afliiredly 1 hauebeeneinformed from fome of my 
cfpeciall friends beyond Sea, that they haue a double white Clematis, and hauc promi- 
fed to fend ir ; but whether it will be of the climing or vpright fort, Icannottell vntill 
I fee it : but furely I doe much doubt whether the double will giue any good feede. 
j . Clematis altera fine feregrina flore rubra. Red Ladies Bower. 
This Climer hath many limber and wcake climing branches like the former, coue- 
red with a browne thin outer barke, andgrecnevnderneath : the leaues ftandatthe 
ioynts, confiding but of three leaues or parts, whereof fome are notched on one fide, 
and fome on both.withoutany clafping tendrels alfo, but winding with his branches 
about any thing ftandeth next vnto it : the flowers in like manner come from the fame 
ioynts with the leaues, but not fo many together as the former vpon long footftalkes, 
confiding of foure leaues a peece, (landing like a crofle, of adarke red colour ; the 
feed is flat and round, and pointed at the end, three or foure or more (landing ciofe to- 
gether vpon one ftalk, without any doune vponthera at all, as in the former : the roots 
are a bundell of brownifh yellow ftrong firings, running down deep into the ground, 
from a bigge head aboue. 
6. Clematis feregrina flare far fare a fimfltti. 
Single purple Ladies Bower. 
ThisLadies Bower differeth in nothing fromthelaft deferibed, butonely inthe 
colour of the flower, which is of a fad blcwifh purple colour ; fo that the one is not 
poflible to be known from the other, vntill they be in flower. 
7 . Clematis feregrina flare farfarea flena. 
Double flowred purple Ladies Bower. 
This double Clematis hath branches and leaues fo neere rcfembling thefingle kinds, 
that there can be knowne no difference, vnleffe it be, that this groweth moregoale and 
great, and yceldeth both more (lore of branches from the ground, and morefpreading 
aboue : the chiefeft markc to diftinguifh it is the flower, which in this is very thicke 
and double, confiding of a number of fmallcr leaues, fet ciofe together in order in the 
middle, the foure outermoft leaues that encompafle them, being much broader and 
larger then any of the inward, but all of a dull or fad blewifli purple colour, the points 
orendsof the leaues feeminga little darker then the middle of them : thisbeareth 
no feede that eucr I could fee, heare of, or learns by any of credit, that haue nourfed 
it a great while j and therefore the tales of falfe deceitfull gardiners, and others, that 
diliuer fuch for truth, to dcceiueperfons ignorant thereof, mutt not beecreduloufly 
entertained. 
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