The (jar den of p leaf ant Flower s. ^ c 
Hand long (hikes, bearing long hollow flowers, ending in fiue,and fomein fix Ieaues, 
very likevntotheflowersofthe firft lafmine, but yellow, whereupon it is vfually cal- 
led the Yellow Iafmine : after the flowers are paft, there come in their places round 
blackeiliining berries, of the bignefle of a great Pcafe , or bigger, full of apurplifh 
iuyce, which willdyeones fingers that bruife them but a little: the roote is tough, and 
white, creeping farre about vnder the ground, (hooting forth plentifully , whereby it 
greatly encreafeth. 
The Place. 
The fir ft is verily thought to haue been firft brought to Spaine out of Sy- 
ria, or thereabouts, and from Spaine to vs, and is to be feenevery often, 
and in many of our Country Gardens. The fecond hath his breeding in 
Spaine alfo, but whether it be his originali place we know not, and is fcarce 
yet made well acquainted with our Englifh ayre. The third groweth plenti- 
fully about Mompelier, and will well abide in our London Gardens, and 
any where elfe. 
The Time* 
The firft flowreth not vntill the end of Iuly. The fccondfomewhat ear- 
lier. Thcthirdinluly alfo. 
ThcNames. 
The firft is generally called I tf minum album, and Gelfcminum album : In 
Englifh, The white Iafmine. T he fccond hath his name in his title, as much * 
as may be faid of it. The third hath been taken of feme to bea Cyttfut , o- 
thers iudgeit to be PoUmontum , but the trueft name is Trifolium fruticans , 
although many call it Ufminum lutcum : In Englilh moft vfually , The yel- 
low Iafmine, for the reafons aforefaid ; or elfe after the Latine name, 
Shrubbie Trefoile, or Make-bate. 
ThcVcrtues. 
The white Iafmines haue beene in all times accepted into outward me- 
dicines , ey ther for the plcafure of the fweete fent, or profit of the war- 
ning properties. And is in thefe dayes onely vied as an ornament in Gar- 
dens, or for fent of the flowers in the houfe,&c. The yellow Iaimine, al- 
though fome haue adiudged it to be the Polcmonium of Diofcorides, yet it is 
not vfed to thofe purpefes by any that I know. 
Chap. CVII. 
syringa. The Pipe tree. 
.1 
V Ndcr the name of Syringa, is contained two fpeciall kinds of Shrubs or Trees, : 
differing one from another ; namely, the Lilac of Matthiolus , which is called 
Syringa camlet, and is of two or three forts : And the Syringa alta , which alio 
is of two forts, as (hall bee declared. 
I . Lilac fine Syringa carnlea. The blew Pipe tree. 
Theblew Pipe tree rifeth fometimes to be a great tree, as high and bigge iruhebo- 
die as a reafonable Apple tree (as I haue in fome places feene and obferuedj but moll 
vfually groweth lower, with many twigs or branches rifing from the roote, hauing as 
much pith in the middle of them as the Elder hath, eoueredwith a grayiflj grecne 
barks, 
