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B. 3. 
Of the Hiftory of Planes. 
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THE THIRD BOOKE OF 
THE HISTORIE OF 
PLANTS. 
Containing the Defcription/Place , Time , jfames, jfature,and Vertue s, 
of Trees , Shrub sfBufhes, Fruit-bearing TlantsfRpfinsffmis^pfes, 
Heath, AMoJfes : fomefndian Tlants , W other rare Tlants 
not remem bred in the Troeme to thefirjl 'Boo he. Alfo 
cSATujhroms, (for all, and their feue- 
rall kftdes, &c. 
The Proeme. 
jpfl Auing finiflied the Treatife of Herbes and Plants in general!, vfed for meat, medicine.ot 
flgl'l hveet fmelhng v fe,onely fome few omitted for want of perfeft inftru<ftion,and alfo bein'® 
hindered by the llackeneife of the Cutters or Grauers of the thofe ; which wants we intend 
to (uppliein this third and laft part. The Tables as well general! as particular ihall be fet forth in 
the end of this prefent Volume. 
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HAP. I. 
Of %ofes. 
TbeKindcs. 
JHe Plant of Roles, though it be a fhrub full of prickles, yet it had beenmofe fit and 
conu'enient to haue placedk with the moft glorious floures of the world, than to in- 
lert the fame here among bafe and thornie fhrubs : for the Rofe doth deferue the 
chiefeft and moft principall place among all floures whatfoeuer . beeing not onelv 
efteemed for Ins beautie,vertues,and his fragrant and odoriferous fmelljbut alfo be- 
caufe it is the honodr and ornament of our Englifh Scepter, as by the coniunftion 
appeareth m the vmcmg of thofe two moft royal I houfes ofLancafter and Yorke. W hich pleafant 
floures deferue the chiefeft place in Crownes and garlands,as AnacrconThtm a moft antient Greeke 
Poet (whom Henricas Stef bantu hath tranflated in a gallant Latineverfe)affirmesin thofeverfesofa 
Rofe, beginning thus 
To p.t^r to ? ?£$»7 
Rof.i hones ,decufcp florum , 
Roft,cura,amorq ■ Vtris. 
Ro(a,c&litum ualuptas, 
Rofe is pier Coheres . 
Caput implicit Corollis , 
Cbaritum C boros frequent ans. 
The 
