Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. i. 
3 Spar turn Anglic amm, 
Englifh Mat-Weed, or Helme. 
ObuM^oio (Jjuyrcot^-'- 
4 Spartum Anglicamtrn altcrum. 
Small Englifh Mat-Weed, or 
Helme. 
The place. 
i 2 Thefe two grow in diuers places of Spaine. 
3 I being in company with M. Tim. Hicks, William 
troad, and three other London Apothecaries beiides, 
in Auguft, 1 632, to finde out rare plants in the Ifland 
of Tenet, found this bigger Englifh one in great plen- 
ties fooneas we came to the fea fide, going betvveene 
Margate and Sandwich. 
4 s Thefe it may be grow alfo vpon our Coafts ; 
howeuer they grow neere the fea fide in diuers parts of 
the Low-Countries. 
6 This elegant Plant Cluftus firft obferned to grow 
naturally in the mountaines nigh to the Bathes of Ba- 
den in Germany , and in diuers places of Auftriaand 
Hungarie. It is nourifhed for the beautiein lundrie 
of our Englifh gardens. 
«yy The time. 
Thefe beare their heads in the middle, and fome in 
the later end of Sommer. 
The names. 
1 This is called Spartum primum Plinij ; that is, the 
firft Mat-Weed deferibed by plin'j : in Spaine they 
call it Sparto : the French in Prouence terme it Olpho. 
2 This is Spartum alteram Plinij, Plinie his fecond 
Mat- Weed, or Hooded Mat-vveed,it is called Albardin 
in Spaine. 
3 This is Spartum tertium of Cltifms , and Gramcn 
Spartettm feemdum Sch&nanthimm of T aber. Our Author 
