2^6 7 he Cjarden of pleafant Flowers. 
many Clematis Dapbnoides (but not that plant that is (imply called Daphnct- 
des, for that is Laureola) and is vfually called Flnca pervtnca; but it is not 
Chamadaphne, for that is another plant, as (hall be (hewed in his place ; fome 
call it Centunculus : In Englifh wee call it Perwinkle. The other is Clematis 
dltcra of Diofcorides, and is called alio C It mat is peregrina , whole diflineti- 
ons are fetdowne in their titles : In Englifh, Ladies Bower, or Virgins 
Bower, oecaufe they arc (it to growe by Arbours, to couer them. The (irlt 
vpright Clambcrer is called , and that rightly of fome, Clematis erecta, or 
furretla. Ofothcrs, flammula frutex, and Flammula louis, or furrccla : In 
Englilh, Vpright V irgins Bower. The next is called by Clufius , Clematis 
Pan seme. i cxrulea , who thought it to be Climeni fpccies, by the relation ofo- 
thers,atthe firft.but after entituled it, Clematis : In Englifh , the Hungarian 
Climer. The laft may be calledin Latine, Clematis Firginiana : In Englifh, 
The Virgin or Virginian Climer ; of the Virginians, Maracoc ; of the Spa- 
niards in the Weft Indies Granadilie, becaufe the fruit (as is before faid) is in 
fome faftiion like a fmall Pomegranate on the outfidc ; y et the feede within 
is flattilh, round, and blackifh. Some fuperftitious Iclu-ite would fainc make 
men bcleeue, that in the flower of this plant are to be fecne all the markes of 
our Sauiours Paflion ; and therefore call it Flos Fa/s isms; and to that end 
haue caufed figures to be drawne„and printed, with all the parts pro portio- 
ned out, as thornes, nailes, fpeare, whippe, pillar, &c. in it , and [all as true 
as the Sea burnes, which you may well perceiue by the true figure , taken to 
the life of the plant, compared with the figures fet forth by thelefuites, 
which I haue placed here like wife for euery one to fee : butthefe bee their 
aduantagious lies (which with them are tolerable, or rather pious and meri- 
torious) wherewith theyvfeto inftrudt their people; but I dare fay, God 
neucr willed his Priefts to inftrudt his people with lyes ;fbr they come from 
the Diuell, the author ofthem. Butyoumayfaylambefidemy Text, and 
I am in doubt you will thinkc, I am in this befidcs my fclfe , and (o nothing 
to be beleeued herein that I fay. For, for the moft part , it is an inherent cr- 
rourinallof that fide, to beleeue nothing, be it neuer fo true , that any of 
our fide fhall affirme,that contrarieth theaflertions of any of their Fathers, 
as they call them : but I muft referre them to God, and hce knoweththe 
truth, and will reforme or deforme them in his time. In regard whereof 
I could not but fpcake (theoccafion being thus offered) againft filch an er- 
roneous opinion (which euen D r . Aldineat Rome, before remembred, dif- 
proued, and contraried both the faid figures and name) and feck to difprouc 
it, as doth (I fay not almoft,butI am afifaid altogether) leade many to adore 
the very pifture of fuch things, as arc but the fictions of fuperftitious brains: 
for the flower it felfe is farre differing from their figure, as both Aldinein 
theaforefaidbooke, andRobinusat Paris in his Theatrum Flora, doefec 
forth ; the flowers and leaues being drawneto the life,and there exhibited, 
which I hope may fatisfie all men, that will not be perpetually obftinateand 
contentious. 
The Vertues. 
Coftatus faith hee hath often feene , that the leaues of Perwinkle held it) 
the mouth , hath flayed the bleeding at the nofe. The French doe vfe it to 
flay the menflruall fluxes. The other are caufticke plants, that is, fiery hot, 
and bliftering the skinne ; and therefore (as Diofcorides faith) is profitable 
to takeaway the feurfe, leprye, or fuch like deformities of the skin. What 
property that of Virginia hath, is not knowne to any with vs I thinke, more 
then that the liquorin the greene fruit is pleafant in tafte ; but afiurcdly it 
cannot be without fomefpeciall properties, if they were knowne. 
Chap. 
