Lie. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
cluttering together, confilling of one thin crilpe or crumpled leafe of a light blew colour(which 
continues long, if you gather them in their perfeft vigour, and fo drie them) and in the middeft of 
this blew comes vp little white floures, confiding of fine little round leaueswith fornd white 
threds in their middle?. This plant was firft obferuedby Rauwolfus at Ioppa in Syria : but it 
groves alfovpon the coalls of Barbaric, and at Malacca and Cadiz inSpame: I haue feene it 
growing with many other rare plants, in the Garden of my kinde friend M r . lohn Tradefcant at 
South Lambeth. 
4 Clufites in the end of his fourth Booke Historic Vlcmtarum, fets forth this, and faith, hee 
receiued this figure with one dryed leafe of the plant fent him from Paris from Claude Gonier an 
Apothecarieofthatcitie,whoreceiucd it(as you fecit hereexpreft) from Lisbone. Now Cluftus 
deferibes the leafe that it was hard,and as if it hadbeenapicceofleather,openon the vpper fide, 
and diftinguifhed with many large purple veines ontheinfide, &c. for the reft of his defeription 
was onely taken from the figure (as he himfelfe faith) which I hold impertinent to fet downe, 
feeing I heere giue you the fame figure, which by no meanes I could omit , for the ftrangenefle 
thereof, but hope that fome or other that trauell into forraine parts may finde this elegant plant, 
and know it by this fmall expreffion, and bring it home with them, that fo we may come to a per* 
feeler knowledge thereof. $ 
4 : 3 Limonium folio finuato. $ 4 Limonio congener, Cluf. 
1 The firft groweth in great plentie vpon the walls of the fort againft Grauefend : but abun- 
dantly on the bankes of the Riuer below the fame towne, as alfo below the Kings Store-houfe at 
Chattam : and faft by the Kings Ferrey going into the Ifle of Shepey: in the fait marfhes by 
Lee in Effex : in the Marfh by Harwich, and many other places. 
Sea-Lauander with the indented leafe. 
Hollow leaued Sea-Lauandcri 
•I The Place. 
