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Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
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Ihe DcfcriptioiJ. 
1 np He Angle Muskc Rofe hath diners long fhootsofagreenifh colour and wooddiefub- 
X ftance.armed with very fliarpe prickles, diuidingirfelfe into diners branches -.whereon 
do grow long leaues, fmooth & fhining,made of diners leaues fet vpon a middle rib, like the other 
roles : thefloures grow on the tops of the branches, of a white colour, and pleafantfwect fmel! like 
that of Muskc, whereof it tookehis name ; hauing certain yellow feeds in the middle, as the reft of 
the rofes haue : the fruit is red when it is ripe, and filled with fuel: chaffie flocks and feeds as thole 
of the other tofes : the root is tough and wooddie. 
2 The double Muske rofe differeth not from the precedent in leaues, ftalks, and roots, not in 
the colour of the floures, or fvreetnefTe thereof, but onely in the doublenefle of the floures, wherein 
confifteth the difference. 
3 Of thefe rofes we haue another in our London gardens, which of mod is called the blufh rofe- 
it floureth when the Damaske rofe doth : the floures hereof arc very Angle, greater than the othe? 
Muske rofes, and of a white colour, dafht ouer with a light waft of carnation, which maketh that 
colour which wee call a blufh colour : the proportion of the whole plant, as alfo the fmell of the 
floures,are like the precedent. 
3 Rofe rJUofchaU jp erics mater. 
The great Muske rofe. 
4 RofaHoloferice.t. 
The veluet rofe. 
red with 5 Jr rofe grovyeth alwaies very low, like vnto the red rofe, hauing his branches cot 
harme the moft r 5 f ° F pnckk 7 raat ter,as fine as haires, yet not fo fharpe or ftiffe that it w 
at t”e too o^he ftali. f 11 . 1 If ’• : , r r e kaue l are ]ike tlle of the white roferthe floure s gre 
colour XmbL ft rr J 0Ub r ed W1 , th l ydI ° W thrums in the midft > of a dce P e and blacke r 
floures betfded rir d fn mr0n vv f h « cu P on f °me haue called it the Veluetrofe : when t 
the others. d d> f ° 1Iw red bcmes fll!1 ofhard feeds > wrapped in a downe or woollineffe li 
eftare^vJmt 1 ,° fc * hkh / as diue ' s do by Art focoloured, and altered from his fi 
h iscoSfbLJtfsr it r0 , r< ; vpon a Br ° ome ftalke; whereby (fay they) it doth not onely chan 
l iencf iJ Jnl ff T , BUt °u my Pait 1 c hamn g found tb ’ c contrarie by mine owne , 
p ence,cannot be induced to beleeuc the report: forrheroots ar.d off-fprings of this rofe ha 
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