Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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it. The leaues are faftned for the molt part by fines vpon one rib or (tern , twoon either fide , and 
one in the midftor point ftanding alone ; which leaues are broad like thofeof Iuy,but not corne- 
red at all .-among which come forth clufters of white floures,and after them great tufts of flat 
feeds, each feed hauing a fine white plume like a feather faftned to it, which maketh in the winter 
a goodly fhevv, couering the hedges white all oner with his feather-like' tops. The root is long, 
tough, and thicke, with many firings faftned thereto. ‘ 5 
2 Clufius hath let forth a kind of clematis, calling it f/nw tie Bxtiea, hauing a maruellous lone 
fmall bianch full of ioynts,with many leaues indented about the edges like thole of the pcare tree 
but differ and finaller, comming from euery ioynt 5 from whence alfo at each ioynt proceed two’ 
fmall clafping tendrels, as alfo the fmall foot-ftalkes whereon the feeds do Hand, growing in great 
tufted plumes or feathers, like vnto the precedent, whereof itisakinde. The floures are not cx- 
prefled in the figure, nor feene by the Author, and therefore what hath been faid fliall fuffice. 
i Viorna. 
2 Clematis Elicit. 
The Spanifh Trauellers Ioy. 
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«T The Place. 
The Trauellers Toy is found in the borders of fields among thornes and briers, almoft in euerie 
hedge as you go from Grauefend to Canturbury in Kent . in many places of Eflqx,and in moftof 
thefe Southerly parts about London, but not in the North of England that I can heare of. 
The fecond is a ftranger in thefe parts : yet haue I found it in the Ifle of Wight, and in a wood 
by Waltham abbey. & 
The Time. 
The floures come forth in Iuly : the beauty thereof appeares in Nouember and December. 
i The Names. 
T ne firft is called commonly Vierna, qnafi vias ornans , of decking and adorn ing'waies and hed- 
geSjWhere people trauel ; and thereupon I haue named it the Trauellers Ioy : of Fnchftw it is called 
Vitts nigra: oST>odonatu,Vitalba : of Matthiolus, Clematis altera • of Cordus, Vitis alia .- of Dio/corides, 
Vths fjluejlris of Theophraflut, Atragene : in Dutch, &fnen : in French, as Rucllitu writeth ,v,orne. 
The Temperature and Vertues. 
Thefe plants haue novfe in phyficke as yet found out, but are efieemed onely for pleafure, by 
rralon ot the goodly fhadow which they make with their thicke bufhing and clyming, as alfo for 
the beauty of the floures, and the pleafant fent or fauor of the fame. 
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