Of the Hiitoryof Plants. 
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2 The fecond fort of Cijlus, being another kind of the male Cijlus, which Pena calls Cijlus mas 
cum Hypocijtide, is like vnto the former, but that from the root of this kinde there commethacer- 
taitie excreicenceor out-growing, which is fometimes yellow, fometimes greene, and fometimes 
wjiite ; from which is drawneby an artificial! extradion acertaine iuyee called in ihops Bypo- 
3 This kinde Cijlus hath many wooddy ftalks diuided into diners brittle branches ofaruf- 
let colour ; whereon do grow rough leaues fomewhat cut or toothed on the edges, and ofan ouer- 
uorne colour: the floures grow on the tops ofthe branches, in forme of aMuskeRofe, but ofan 
excellent bright, purple colour : after which come round knops, wherein is contained fmal reddilii 
lecd : the root is tough and wooddy, 
4 This fourth fort of Cijhts hath diners wooddy branches, whereon are iet, thicke thru ft toge- 
ther, diners lmal leaues narrow like tholeofWinter Sauorie,butofan ouerworne ruflet colour:the 
root and floures are like the precedent. 
There groweth vp fometimes vnder the fhrubhard to the roots, a certaine excrefcenee orhypo- 
cift, which is thicke, fat, grofle, full of iuyee, without leaues, wholly con lilting of many lirdeca- 
fes or boxes, as do thofc of Henbane or of the Pomegranat tree; ofayellowifh red colour in one- 
kinde, and in another white, and in certaine other greene or grallie, as Diofcondes faith. 
The Dcfcription. 
i f I Hefirft kinde o {Cijlus groweth vp like a fmall bulb or fhrub, of a wooddy fubftance, 
| three or foure cubits high, garnilhed with many fmall and brittle branches, fet full of 
crumpled or rugged leaues very like vnto Sage leauesiar the top of the branches come 
floures ofa purple.colour, in fhape like vnto a (ingle Brier Role, hauing leaues fomwhat wrinkled 
like acloath new dried before ic be finoothed, and in the midft a few yellow chines or thrums : the 
floures for the moft part do perifh and fal ! away before noone,and neuer ceafc flouring in fuch ma- 
ner from the moneth of May vnto the beginning of September, atwhich time the feed is ripe, be- 
ing ofa reddiih colour, and is contained in an hard hairie huske not muchvnlike the husk of Hen- 
bane. 
I Cijlus mas an<rttJlifolius . 
The male Holly Rofc. 
CestTcS UeCcelAtA-S'. 
2 Cijlus mas ctmi Bypocijlidc. 
The male Holly Rofe with his excrefcence.' 
, j Cijlus 
