Of theHiftory of Plants. 
IZ 7.9 
1 2 The Ioiv or bafe Ciftus of Auftria groweth likewife leaning to the ground , hauing many 
wooddy branches very firme and tough, couered with a blackifli barke ; whereon do grow very ma- 
ny rough and hairy leaues in fhape like thofe of the finali myrtle, of a (hining greene on the vpper- 
iide, and of an aftringent tafte : on euery branch ftandeth one floure, feldome two, in forme like the 
other, but confiding of one leafe deeply diuided into flue parts, and ofa white colour tending to a 
flcfh colour. 5 
*3 This low fort of Cidus hath many long tough branches trailing vpon the ground, of a red- 
ailh colour, whereon do grow fmall leaues like thole ofwilde Tyme, ofa darke green colour very 
thicke and fat, and fomewhat hairy : thefloures grow at the top of the branches, of a yellow gold 
colour, confiding of fine fmall leaues of a very fweet fmell. The root is thicke, hard and 
Wfinnn * 5 
14 This ftrange and rare plant of Lobels obleruation I haue thought meet to be inlerted a- 
mongft the kindesof Ciftus, as a friend of theirs, if not one of the kinde : it hath leaues like vnto 
the male Ciftus (the firft in this chapter defcribed) but more hairy, bearing at the top of his bran- 
ches a imall knop in fliape like a rotten Strawberry, but not of the. fame fubftance ; for it is com- 
padt ofa fcaly or chaffie matter fuch as is in the middeft of the Camomill floures, and of a ruder 
colour. 
14 Ciftus exoticus Lobelij , MyrUciftus Tho.Pennei Angli. 
branches are long or brittle, whereon do grow long leaues like thofe of the Willow, of anouer- 
n’otne ludct colour : the floures are fmall, confifting of flue little yellow leaues : the whole plant 
being well viewed feemeth to be a Willow, but at the firft fight one of the Ciftus • fo that it is a 
plant participating of both : the root is wooddy. t Bitiihine iudges this (which our Author out of 
T them, figured and named Ciftus adulterinus ) to be the Ciftus fet forth in the eighth place of the 
next chapter faue one : but I rather iudge it to be of the Ledum Silefucum fet forth in che eleuenth 
place of that chapter, and againe in the twelfth, where you may finde more thereof, t 
1 6 This kinde of Ciftus, which D r . Penn y (a famous Phyfitian of London deceafed) did ga- 
ther vpon the Iflands of Majorica or Majorca, and called it by the name in Latine,t_^«<;- 
ciftus Balearica, is a (drub growing to the height ofthree cubits, hauing a very rough barke, be- 
fet roundabout with rough and fcabbed warts - 3 which bark wil ofit felfe eafily fall away from the 
D r . Penny his Ciftus. 
1 5 This adulterine or counterfeit or forged Ciftus growes to the height ofa hedge bulb : the 
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