L i b. 3. Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 12.85 
The Place. 
Their feuerall titles haue touched their naturall countries: they grow in rough, dric, and funnie 
places, in plainc fields and vpon mountaines. . -* , 
Thofe of our Englifh growing, I haue found in very many places , efpecially in Kent, vpon 
the chalkic bankes about Grauel-end,Southfleet,and for the moll part all the way from thence vnu 
toCanturburieand Douer. 
'The Time. 
They floure from Inly to the end of Auguli. 
The Names . 
Tragus calleth dwarfe Ciftus in the high Dutch tongue, pfflpC : in Latine, Gratia Dei- 
but there is another herbe called alfo of the later Herbarifts Gratia Dei, which is Gratiola: Valerius 
Cordtis namech it Hclianthemum, and Solis flos, or Sunne floure; of Clafttu, Chamacijlus , or Dwarfe 
Ciftus. 
Pliny writeth.that Heliantht groweth in thechampion countrey Temifcyrain Pontus, and in the 
mountaines of Ci 1 ’cia neere to thefea : and he faith further, that the wife men of thofe countries, 
and the kings of Pcrfia do annoint their bodies herewith, boiled with Lions fat,a little Saffron, and 
wine, of Dates, that they may feerne faire and beautiful 5 and therefore haue they called it Heliocali. 
den or the beautie of the Sun : t jHatthiolus faith, that Helianthemum is taken of fome to be Panaces 
Chironium,ox Chirons All-heale : but it is nothing likely ,as we haue faid. 
The TemferatureandVertues. 
The faculties and temperature are referred to thekindesof Ciftus, for it healeth wounds, ftan- A 
cheth blond, and ftoppeth the fpittings of blond, the bloudie flixe, and all other ilfues of bloud. 
The fame boiled in wine healeth vlcers in the mouth and priuie parts,if they be wafhed there- ^ 
with: to be briefest ioineth together and ftrengthneth : which things doe plainely and euidently 
fhew , that it is not onely like to Ciftus and Ledon in forme, but in vertues and faculties alfo, and 
therefore it is manifeft,that it is a certaine wilde kinde of Ciftus and Ledon. 
Chap. 7. Of (jjlut Ledon, and Ladanum. 
«[ TheKindcs. 
T Here bedtuers lotts of Ciftus,whereof that gummy matter is gathered, called in {hops Ladd 
mm, and Labdamim , but vnproperly. 
The Defcripion. 
• 1 A^Iftus Ledon is a fhrub, growing to the height ofa man, and fometimes higher$bauing 
many hard wooddie branches, couered with ablackifh bark : wherupon do grow leaues 
fet together by couples, one right againft another like vnto wings, of an inch broad, of a 
blacke fwart greeneon the vpperfides,and whitifh vnderneath : wl ereon is gathered a certain clam- 
mie tranfparent or through ihining liquour, ofavery hot fweetfmell, which being gathered and 
hardned,is thatwhich in lhops is called Labdamm : the floures grow at the ends of tne branches 
like little roles, confifting of fine white leaues, enery one decked or beautified toward the bottome 
with pretty darkepurplilh fpots tending to blacknefle, hauing in the middle very many yellow 
chiueSjfuch as are in the middle of the Rofe : after come the knaps or feed veflels,full of moft fmal 
reddifh feed- the whole plant being dried, groweth fomewhat whitilli, and ofa pleafantfmell, the 
which it retaineth many yeares. 
2 The fecond groweth likewife to the height of an hedge bufli, the branches are long, and very 
fragile or ea fie to breake,whereon do grow leaues greener than any other of his kinde, yervnder- 
neath of a hoarie colour ; growing toward winter to be fomewhat reddifh, ofa fower and binding 
taftc:the floures arc like the precedent : the forme whereof the Grauer hath omitted, in other re- 
fpefts like the former. 
3 ThethirdfortofCiftusLedongrow'ethvptotheheightof a fmall hedgebufh, hauing ma- 
ny tvviggie branches; whereon do grow leaues like thofe of the Poplar tree, fharpe at the point, co- 
uered ouer with that clammie dew that the others areithe floures grow at the tops of the branches, 
ofa white colour like the precedent. 
