510 Of theHiftory of Plants. Lib. z . 
2 There is alfo another great Houlleek or Sengreen (fyrnamed tree Houfleeke)that bringeth 
forth a ftalkc a cubit high, fometimes higher, and often two ; which is thicke, hard .woody, tough, 
and chat can hardly be broken, parted into diuers branches, and couered with a thicke groffe 
barke, which in the lower part referueth ccrtaine prints or imprefied markes of the leaues that 
are fallen away. Theleaues are fat, well bodied, full of juice, an inch long and fomewhat more, 
like little tongues, very curioufly minced in the edges, handing vpon the tops of the branches, 
hatting in them the fhape of an eye. The floures giovv out of the branches,which are diuided into 
many fprings -which floures are (lender, yellow, and fpred like a har ; in theirplaces commerh 
vp very fine feed, the fprings withering away : the root is parted into many off-fprings.This plant 
is alvvaies greene, neither is it hurt by the cold in winter, growing in his natiue foile ; whereupon 
it is named and Sempcruivum, or Sengreene. 
3 There is alfo another of this kinde,the circles whereof areanfwerableinbignefletothofe 
ofthe former, but withlefTer leaues, moe in number, and clofefly fet, hailing handing on the edges 
very fine haires as ltwere like foft prickles. This is fomewhat ofa deeper greenerthe halke is lhor- 
ter,andthe floures are of a pale yellow, f This is the third of Dodonai//del'cn'ption > Pemptad.i. 
i/ 6 . 5. cap. 8. t 
4 There is likewife a third to be referred hereunto : theleaues hereof be of a whitifh greene, 
and are very curioufly nicked roundabout. $ The floureis great, confiding of fix white leaues ; 
This is that deferibed by Dodonams in the 4 . place : and it is the Cotyledon altera fecunda of Clufius. $ 
5 There is alfo a fourth,the circles whereof are leffer, theleaues fharpe pointed, very clofely 
fet,ofadarkered colour on the top, and hairy in the edgesrthe floures on thefprigs are of a gallant 
purple colour. | This is thefiftofZ)srfij«<e»r-,and the Cotyledon alter atert’.a of Clufas. t 
f Tfe Place. 
1 The great Sengreen is well knowne not onely in Italy, but alfo in France, Germany, Bohe- 
mia, and the Lowe-Countries. It groweth on hones in mountaines,vpon old walls, and ancient 
buildings, efpecially vpon the tops of hotifes. The forme hereof doth diftcr according tothe na- 
ture of the foile ; for in fome places the leaues are narrower and leffer, but mo in number,and haue 
one onely circle ; in fome they are fewer, thicker, and broader : they are greene,and of a deeper 
greene 
