Lib. i. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
bout fiich tilings as (land ncerevnto it, but one- 
ly Icancth and lycth vpon thole things that are 
prepared to fuftaine it about arbors and banque- 
ting houfes in gardens, by which it is held' vp. 
The (talks therbf are long, round, branched, min- 
ted or kneed ,andofa green colour, hailing with- 
in a white fpungeous pith. The leaucs ftand vp- 
on a middle ribbe, fet together by couples like" 
thofeof the afire tree, but much (mailer, of a 
deepegreene colour. The Routes grow at the 
vppermoft part of the branches, (landing in a 
fmal tuft, far fet one from another, fiveet in find, 
of colour white. The feed is flat and broad like 
thofe ofLupines.which fcldome come to ripe- 
nefle. The root is tough and threddie. 
2 Label reporteth that he fa w in a garden at 
Bruxels, belonging to a reuerend perlon called 
M '.John Boifot , a kinde of Gelfemine, very much 
differing from our Iafmine, which he nourifhed 
in an earthen potdt grew not aboue, faith he, to 
the height of acubit , diuided intodiuers bran- 
ches.wherupon did grow leaues like thofe of the 
common white Iafinine, but blacker and roun- 
der. The floures to the fhew were moil beautiful, 
in fhape like thofe of the common Iafmine, but 
foure times bigger, gaping wide open, white on 
thevpper fide, and of a bright red on the vnder 
fide. 
3 There is a kind hereofwith yellow floures: 
but fome doe deferibe for the yellow lafminq* 
the fhrubbieTrefoile, called of fome tnfohum 
fruticans : and of others, Poicmonium. But this yel- 
low lafimne is one, and that is another plant, differing from the kindes of Iafmine,as (hall bedecla- 
redin his proper place. The yellow Iafmine differeth not from the common white Gefmine in 
leaues, (talks, nor fafhion of the floures : the onely difference is, that this plane bringeth forth vel- 
low floures, and the other white. ^ J 
4 There is likewife another fort that differeth not from the former in any refpe<ft,biit in the co- 
lour of the floure ; for this plant hath floures of a blew colour, and the others not fo, wherein confi- 
(leththe difference. 
% The Place. 
Gelfemine is foflcred in gardens, and is vfed for arbors, and tocoucrbanquettin^ houfes in <r a f- 
dens : it groweth not wilde in England that l can vnderftand of.rhough M'.Lyte be of another opi. 
nion : the white Iafmine is common in mod places of Englandithe reft are ftrangcrs,and not feene 
in thefe parts as yet. J 
5T The Time. 
They bring forth their pleafant floures in Inly and Auguft. 
51 The Names, 
Among the Arabians Scrapio was the fit ft that named Geflemine, Zambach : it is called Iafmi. 
<num, and Iefemimim^nd alfo Gef.mimm : in Englifii,Iafmine,Ge(Temine,and lefie. 
There is in Diofcondes a compofition of oile of Iafmine, which he faith is made in Perfia of the 
; white floures of Violets, which Violets feeme to be none other than the floures of this Geflemine- 
for D ofiondes oftentimes hath reckoned faire and elegant floures amongft the Violets; fo that it 
i mu ft not feeme ftrangethathecalleth the floures of Geflemine Violets^fpeciflly feeing that the 
plant it felfe was vnknowne vntohim,as it is cuident. 
5f ThcT emper at urc. 
Geflemine, and efpecially the floures thereof be hot in the beginning ctf the fecond degree as 
Scrapio reporteth out olMcfne. 
The Vertices. 
The oile which is made ofthe floures hereof, wafteth away raw humors, and is good amiinft cold A 
rheumesjbut in thofe that are of a hot conftitution it caufeth head-ache, and the oucrmuch fmell 
thereof maketh the nofe to bleed,as the fame Author alfirmeth. It is vfed (as Diofcondes vvriteth 
ffff '' . and 
j Iafminum luteum. 
Yellow Iafmine. 
