Hire albt. 
The (garden of pie a f ant Flowers. 
long, weake, (lender, but yet tough branches lying vpon the ground, diuided vfually 
into other fmaller branches, whereon growe many, (mall, long, and fomewhat thickc 
leaues , fomewhat like vnto the leaues of the former Mezereen, fet without any order 
to the very tops , from whence doe come forth a tuft of many fmall flowers together, 
madeor confiding of foure leaues a peece,of a bright red or carnation colour, and very 
fweetewithall, which turne into lmall round whitifh berries, whereinis contained 
fmall round ieede , coucred with a grayifh coate orskinne: therooteislongandyel- 
lowifli, fpreading diuers way es vnder the ground , and abideth many yeares (hooting 
forfh new branches. 
Ithathbeeneobferuedin fomeof thefe plants, to bring forth white flowers, not 
differing in any thing elfe. 
The Place. 
The firft forts growe plentifully in many places of Germany. The fe- 
condinthe raountaines by Sauoye. The third in Prouenceand Spaine. 
The laft in diuers parts of Germany, Bohemia, and Auftria, and about 
Franckford. 
The Time. 
The two firft forts are mod vfually in flower about Chriftmas , or inla- 
nuary, if the weather be not violent, and fometimes not vntill February. 
Thefecondflowrethnot vntill Aprill. The third in May. The berriesof 
them ripen fomc in Iunc and Iuly ; fome in Auguft and September , as 
their flowring is earlier or later. Thelaftflowreth as well in the Spring as 
in Autumne, fo apt and plentifull it is in bearing, and the feede at both 
times doth ripen foonc after. 
The Names. 
The firft is called oKomcCbxmalag, with this addition Germanica , that 
it may differ from the third, which is the true cbamxUx of Diofcorides, 
as all the bed Authors doeagree, and is alfo called Piper mentanum of the 
Italians. It is generally called Mezxreon , and is indeede the true Mezerem 
of the Arabians, and lb vfed in our Apothecaries (hops, wherefocuerthe 
Arabians Mczcreen is appointed, although the Arabians are fo intricate and 
vneertainein the deferiptions of their plants, confounding CbamxUx and 
T^W,«4together.Matthiolus maketh it to be Dapbnotdes of Diofcorides ; 
but in my opinion he is therein miftaken : for all our bed moderne Wri- 
ters doe account our Lauretta , which hath blacke berries , to bee the true 
Dapinet des : tbcerrour of his Countrey might peraduenture drawe him 
thereunto; but if hcc had better confidered the text of Diofcorides, that 
giueth black berries to Dapbnoides , and red to Chamxdapbne^e. would not fo 
hauc written; and truly, I fhould thinke(as Lobel doth) with better reafon, 
that this CbamxUa were Diofcorides Cbamxdapbne , then hee to fay it were 
Dxpbntidcsfoi the defeription of Cham* daphne , may in all parts be very fitly 
applyedto this ChamaUa : and tuen thefe words, Semen annexum folijs, 
wherein may bethegreateftdoubtin the defeription, maynotvnfitly bee 
conftrued, that as is feene in the plant, the berries growe at the foote of the 
leaues, about the branches: the faculties indeede that Diofcorides giueth 
• to Cbamadapbne , are (if any repugnande be) the greateft let or hinderance, 
thztthisChamxlaafhouldnot be it : butlleaue the difeufling of thefeand 
others of the like nature, to our learned Phyfitians 5 for I deale not fo much 
with vertues as with deferiptions. The fecond is called of Lobel CbamxUx 
Alpina incxna.of Clufius chamxUa fecunda, and faith lice had it out of Italy. 
Wee may call it in Engli(h,Mountaine Spurge OIiue,as it is in the deferip- 
tion, or Mountaine Laurel!, which you will. Thelafthath thenameof 
Cneorum, firft giuen it by Matthiolus, which fince is continued by all others. 
Bauhinus (as I faid) referred! it to the Mountaine Campions, but Clufius 
(as 
