mo] us, & m fits vulgarc , Umbilici Veneris Species 
altera Angmlart, Our Common or Vulgar Houfleek. 
2 . Sedum majus legitimism Clufij , Aizoon magnum 
veium Uifcoriik , Sempervivum majus , Sempervi- 
vum Arborefcens Mattbioli, Sedum Arborefcens , Ai- 
zoon Arborcfcens , The True Great Houfleek, or 
Tree Houfleek. ?. Sedum majus Marinum Angli- 
cism \ Sedum Port landicum Lobelij, Great Englifh Sea 
Houfleek. This Lobe/ makes to be a fort or kind of 
the fecond abovenamed, or Tree Houfeek. 
IV. The Defcriptions. T he firft , or Our Com- 
mon Houfleek, hue a fmall fibrous Root , creeping all 
about , and from fmall firings multiplies into many 
beads of Leaves , round the original Root , taking up 
thereby a large compafs of Earth-, and as this Root 
fends forth on all tides feveral heads of pale, green, 
thick, fat, broad Leaves, pointed at the ends, lying 
circlewiie one unto , and as it were upon another , 
and upon the Ground, from the middle of each 
head of Leaves rifes up a flraight Stalk, two Feet 
high, all covered with fmaller and longer green, 
thick, fat Leaves, (than thofe below) which often 
dry and fall away before .the top thereof has perfeft- 
ed its Flowers, which grow on long Branches, bend- 
ing their ends or tops downwards, with a (ingle Leaf 
at the foot of every one of them , which confift of 
many Leaves, Star fafhion, of a dark reddifh color, 
after which come Heads , with fmall blackifh Seed 
in them. 
V. The fecond, or True Great Houfleek. It heu a 
Root confifiing of firings, like the former, which di- 
vides it felf into feveral off-fprings ; this Herb grows 
great, to the form of a Shrub, or woody Plant, of 
two or three Feet, or more high, in its native pla- 
ces, which are warm, and its Stem or Trunk below 
is of the bignefs of four Fingers, and the other 
Branches are the thicknefs of ones Thumb, of a grey- 
ifti color on the outfide, and fpotted as it were round 
about, but they are the marks of the old Leaves 
which are fallen, the like of which may be feen in 
Wood. Spurge, and fome other Plants; it fpreads it 
felf out into feveral limber fmaller Branches on all 
lides, and Leaves at the ends of them, {landing in a 
5 ± 9 
I < c° rn P a ^ o like the Heads of the former Common 
noujlcck, but nothing fo clofe, everv Leaf being 
formed fomewhat like a Tongue, lmall it the bottom, 
and broader towards the end, where it is broadeft, 
roundifh at each fide of the end, and a little dented 
in about the middle of the faid end, hot much un- 
like the form of a Heart, they are alfo finely dented 
about tile edges, and as it were a little hollow, like 
a bpoon, and full of juice, and of a pale green color; 
rrom me tops of fome of the Branches thrufts forth a 
long btalk, divided into many letter Branches or 
Twigs, with fome few fmall Leaves on them, and 
ra- e en ^ S °* f evera l Star like Flowers, con- 
hlting of many fmall Leaves, of a pale yellowifh 
color, with fundry fmall Threads in their middles - 
the greater Stalk becomes dry and ifnooth as the 
Heads, which have fmall black Seed in them, which 
bemg ripe they utterly perifft after Seed time, but 
the other Heads of green Leaves abide frelh all the 
rear, which fend forth Flowers the next Year after, 
and may be taken before hand from the main Stock 
to be planted, and will take root being p'ut into the 
Ground- in the warmer Climates it fpreads it felf 
much more into Branches than in thefe our colder 
Countries. 
VI. Gerard deferibes it thus. It rifes up with a 
btalk a root and half , and fometimes three Feet 
high, which is thick, hard, woody, and lo tough, 
that it can hardly be broken , parted into divers 
branches, and covered with a thick grofsBark, 
which in the lower part refembles certain prints, or 
nnpiefs d marks of the Leaves which are fallen away ; 
the Leaves are fat, well bodied, full of juice, an 
jn^ilong, and fomewhat more , almoft like little 
Longues, very curioufly minced or nipt on the ed- 
ges, ltanding upon the tops of the Branches, having 
in them the lhape of an Eye ; the Flowers grow out 
G i • , e ~y ancheS 5 which are divided into many Sprigs, 
which flowers are flender, yellow, and fpread like 
a brar which being paft away, there comes up in 
therr places very fine Seed, the Sprigs withering 
away * the Root is parted into many off-fprings, and 
the riant is always green, nor in its native Soil is it 
huit by the cold of Winter, for which reafon it ob- 
tained the Name of Sempervivum. 
VII. The third, or Great Englifh Sea Houfleek. 
a { on P flender Root, or Roots, zvitb fome feta 
rib) es adjoining, jrom whence fpring up one or two , 
or more Heads , which at length become Leaves and 
, r ^ e Leaves imitate Laurcola, growing among 
the Tithymals, but thicker, fhorter, more fat, and 
tender ■, the Stalk is of a woody fubftance, like Lau- 
r f°’ a -> participating of the Kinds of Sempervivum , 
LraJJu/a , and Tithymal, of which lalt fome Authors 
have thought it to be a Kind* others have thought 
it to be a Shrub, degenerating from all thofe Plants: 
Lena and Lobe l, who firft difeovered it and let it 
forth, knew not what to think of it ^ others fince 
them have been as uncertain ; however, its fomething 
like to our lecond Kind, or Tree Houfeek, above 
deferibed, its Stem is woody, but it grows neither 
fo high, nor with fo many Branches, the Leaves al- 
fo, although fomething like to them, yet are not fo 
thick or fappy , in its other parts it differs not much 
from the faid Tree Houfeek. 
VIII. rhe Places. The firft grows naturally both 
in England and Germany, as alio in the Low Coun- 
tries, E/ance, Lfc. it grows upon Stones or Moun- 
tains, upon old Walls and ancient Buildings, as al- 
fo upon the tops of Houfes, and more elpecially be- 
ing planted in Clay , or in Clay Ground ; its form 
does fometimes differ, according to the nature of 
the Soil, for in fome places the Leaves are narrow- 
er and letter, but more in number, and have one on- 
ly circle; in fome places they are fewer, thicker, 
and 
