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cared blew like rhofe ofthe former : the root alfo is wooddy : both of them are of a certaine {Iron? 
fmell, but nothing at all offenftue . and that which is the lcfler is the better. 
3 ■ This Indian Sage hath diners branches of a wooddy fubftance, whereon doe grow fmall 
leaues, long, rough, and narrow, of anouerworne colour, and of a moil fweet and fragrant fmell. 
The floures grow alongft the top ofthe branches, ofa white colour, in forme like the precedent. 
The root is tough and wooddy. 
l Saluiamaior. 
Great Sage. 
2 Salat aminor. 
Small Sage. 
4 The Mountainc Sage hath an vpright ftalke fmooth and plaine, whereupon do grow broad 
rough and rugged leaues, lleightly nicked, and vneuenly indented about the ed^es, of an hoarie 
colour, iliarpe pointed , and ofa ranke fmell : the floures grow alongft the top of the ftalke, in 
fhape like thofe of Rofemarie, of a whiri Ih red colour. The root is likewife wooddy. 
5 We liaue in our gardens a kinde of Sage, the leaues whereof are reddifh part of thofe red 
leaues are ftnped with white, others mixed with white, greene, and red, euen as Nature lift to play 
with Inch plants. Thisisane!egantvarietie,andiscalled Saint a vane, at a deram Variegated or 
painted Sage. ° ■ 5:5 
6 We haue alfo another, the leaues whereof are for the moft part white, fomewhar mixed with 
greene, oiten one leafe white, and another greene, euen as Nature lift, as we haue laid. This is not 
lo rare as the former, norneere fo beautifull, wherefore it may be termed Salma varierata vulraru. 
Common painted Sage. . ° 
-f 7 rhere is kept in fomeof ourchiefe gardens a fine Sage, which in fhape and manner of 
growing refembles the fmaller Sage.butin fmell and tafte hath fome affinity with Wormwood, 
whence it mav be termed Salma Abjintbites, or Wormewood Sage. Bauhine o'nelv hath mentioned 
this, and that in the fourth place in his P wax, Pag. 2 3 7. bv the name of Saluiamimr altera : and bee 
addes, Use eelore Japore eft Abfwthij ,flercquerubcnte : Thar is, This hath the fmell and, tafte of 
VV ormewood, and a red floure : but ours (if my memorie faile me nor) hath a whitifh flotire : iris 
a tender plant , and muft be carefully preferued from the extremitie of Winter. I firft faw this 
Sagewith M 1 . Cannon ^ andby hiniitwas communicated to fome others. 
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