Lib. 2. 
Of theHiftoryof Plants. 
C h a p. iyp. Of Lamnder Spike. 
^ The Defcription. 
1 T Auander Spike hath many ftiffe branches of a wooddie fubftance, growing vp in the 
| j manner of a (hrubbe, fet with many long hoarie Ieaues, by couples for the molt part- 
of a ftrong fmell, and yet pleafant enough to fuch as doe loueftrong fauours. The 
floures grow at the top of the branches fpike fafhion, of a blew colour. Therooteis hard and 
wooddie. 
2 The feconddiffcreth not from the precedent, but in the colour of the floures : For this 
Plant bringeth milke vybite floures 5 and the other bl£v, wherein efpeciallyconlifteth the diffe- 
rence. 
3 Wee haue in our Englifh gardens a Email kinde of Lauander,which is altogether leffer than 
the other, $ and the floures are ofamOTe purple colour and grow in much leffer-nd fhorterheads 
yet haue they a farre more gratefull fmell : the leaues arealfo Ic-lfeand whiter than thofeof the 
ordinarie fort. This did, and I thinke yet doth grow in great plentkynhis Maiefties priuate Gar- 
den at White-hall. And this is called Spike, without addition, and fometimes Lauander Spike: 
and of this by diftillation is made that vulgarly known and vfed oile which is termed oleum (lie*, 
oroileofSpike. * 
j Lavandula flare urdea. 2 Lavandda flare alia. 
Common Lauander. White floured Lauander. 
The Place. 
In Spaine and Languedocke in France, tiioft of the mountaines and defert fields, are as it were 
Ccc i couered' 
