Salmon ’ s 'Herbal Lib. I 
Vinca Pervinca , Chamadaphne Plinij Centuncuius 
Plinij: in Englifh , Per winkle, or Climer , alfo 
Periwinkle . 
II. The Kinds. There are three feveral forts 
which are common amongft us, viz. i. Clematis 
Daphnoiedes major , Vinca Pervinca major , Ch amt- 
daphne major , The greater Perwinkle. 2. Clema- 
tis Daphnoiedes minor , K/Vratf Pervinca minor ( di- 
verforum colorum ) Chamadaphne Plinij •, Ccntun- 
culus Plinij , The leffer Perwinkle, or fingle Per- 
winkle of divers colors. 3. Clematis Daphnoiedes , 
five Vinca Pervinca Plore duplici purpuero , Per- 
winkle with double purple Flowers. 
T/jc Descriptions* 
III. T/;? fir ft , or Greater Perwincle. 7 /.r Ite 
confifts of a great Bitfh of fibres , which run and 
fpread them] 'elves much , faftning them] elves ftrong- 
ly in the Ground. This greater Perwinkle is fome- 
ibing like to the next , or fmaller Kind , but much 
larger , yet its Branches creep not in that manner , 
Perwinkle Great. 
but ft and more upright , e/* creeping at the 
'^’ £ ^ caves al f° hixeofytand by couples at 
the Joints , but they are broader and larger by 
the half than the next following. The flowers 
likewfc are larger , confining of five Leaves , of a 
blew color, 4 Ztf?/* deeper than the' blew in the leffer 
Kind. 1 his Plant is fur tenderer to keep than the 
fmaller Species , and therefore ought to be Planted 
in a ™rmer place, yet a place which is mcik and 
fhady. ■_ : . J 
\\ . The fecond, or Leffer Perwinkle, which is 
a iingie Perwinkle of divers colors. Its Root is in 
<ts Body, lithe bigger than a Rulh, bufhing it Jetj 
Perwinkle purple J mail . 
Perwinkle Wild j. 'mall . 
oat, in the Grounlyml creeping with its Branches ant 
fibres far about, whereby it 'quickly takes tip a large 
cdmpafs, and is therefore mof ufually planted under 
Hedges, where it may have room enough to t en 
From this Root firing forth mary Branches, trail- 
