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''The (jar dm of pleafant Flowers. 
or the Iuiube tree: in the other he faith, that certain do affirme.that the Cyprus 
of thcEaft Country, and the Ligustrum of Italy is one and the fameplant: 
whereby you may plainly fee,that our Priuet which is Ligufirum , cannot be 
that Cyprus of Plinie with Iuiube leaues: Bcfides,both Diofcorides & Plinic 
fay,that Cyprus is a tree ; but all know that Ligufirum, Priuet, is but an hedge 
bu(h : Againe, Diofcorides faith, that the leauesofC^r*r giuea red colour, 
but Priuet giueth none. BelloniusandProfper Alpinus haue both recor- 
ded, that the true Cyprus of Diofcorides groweth plentifully in Egypt , Sy- 
ria, and thofe Eafterne Countries , and nourfed vp alfo in Conftantinople, 
and other parts of Greece, being a raerchandife of much worth, in that they 
tranfport the leaues, and young branches dryed, which laid in water giue a 
yellow colour , wherewith theTurkilh women colour the nsiles of their 
hands, andfomeother parts of their bodies likewife, delighting much 
therein : and that it is not our L‘g*(lrum , or Priuet, becaufc Cyprus beareth 
round white feede,like Coriander feede , and the leaues abide greene al- 
waies vpon the tree, which groweth (if it bee not cut or pruined)tothc 
height of the Pomegranet trec.I haue (I confeffe) beyond the limits I fet for 
this worke fpoken concerning our Priuet, becaufel haue had the feede of 
the true Cyprus of Diofcorides fentmee, which was much differing from 
our Priuet , 3nd although it fprang vp , yet would not abide any time, 
whereas if ithadbeeneour Priuet, it would haue beene familiar enough 
to our Countrey. 
TheVcrtues. 
Itisoffmall vfein phyficke, yet fome doe vfe the leaues in Lotions, that 
ferue to coole and dry fluxes or fores in diuers parts. 
Chap. CXXVI. 
SaluU variegat a. Party coloured Sage. And 
Mahranu verfictler fiuc taros. Yellow or golden Marierome. 
V Nto all thefe flowers of beauty and rarity, I muff adioyne two other plants, 
whofe beauty confifteth in their leaues , and not in their flowers : as alfo to fe- 
parate them from the others of their tribe, to place them here in one Chapter, 
before the fweete herbes that (hall follow, as is fitted to furnifh this our Garden of 
pleafure. This kinde of Sage groweth with branches and leaues, very likctheordi- 
nary Sage, butfomewhatfmaller, the chiefeft difference confifteth in the colour of 
the leaues, being diuerfly marked and fpotted with white and red among the greene: 
for vpon one branch you (hall haue the leaues feuerally marked one from another , as 
the one halfe of the leafe white, and the other half e greene , with red (hadowed ouer 
them both, or more whitethen greene, with fome red in it, either parted or (hadowed, 
or da(ht here and there, or more greene then white, and red therein, eythcr in the mid- 
dle or end of the leafe , or more or leffe parted or ftriped with white and red in the 
greene, or elfe fometimes wholly greene the whole branch together, as nature lifteth 
to play with fuch varieties : which manner of growing riling from one and the fame 
plant, becaufe it is the more variable, is the more delightfull and much refpe&ed. 
There is another fpeckled Sage parted with white and greene , but it is nothing of 
that beauty to this, becaufe this hath three colours euidently to bee difeerned in euery 
leafe alraoft, the red adding a fuperaboundantgrace to the reft. 
M list aunt fiuc vcrficelor. Yellow orgolden Marierome. 
This kinde of Marierome belongeth to that fort is called in IxasutUnmau latifa- 
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