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S ■•Tiieeighch gro veth vp like a little hedge bin'll,' hauing leaues like the common female Ci- 
ftus, fining that thole of this plantare fprinckled ouer with that clammy moifture" and tne other 
not fo : the Homes and feed are alfo like, from the root of this plant commeth filch like c-xcref- 
cence called L'mt ioronj)ro!>inche^ or there doth from the firffc male Ciftus, wherein it 
differeth from ill the reft vnder the name Ledon. 
9 The ninth hath diuers brittle ftllkes of an ath colour tending to a ruffet ■ whereon are fet 
very many leaues like chofe of Thyme, of an ouerworne colour : the floures are white, with certainc 
yellow chiues in the middle,which the graaer hath omitted in the figure. 
10 The tenth groweth vp like a fmall fhrub, hailing brittle ftalkes, couered with ablaclufh 
barke, andditiided into diuers branches - whereon are fet vpon fhort truncheons or fat footftalkesj 
foure or fine like thole the Myrtle tree, of a ftrong fmell : the floures are likevvifeofa white co- 
lour. 
12 Cift m Ledum Rorifntirini folio . 13 Cifim Ledum MMthioli. 
Ciftus Ledon with leaues like Rofetnarie. Cilhis Ledon of Matthiolus defeription. 
Ii. ti. The twelfth klnde of Ciftus Ledon groweth vpright with a ftraight body or ftocke, 
bringeth at the top many fmall twigs or rods of a cubit long, couered with a barke of the colour of 
allies, which diuide themielues into other branches, of apurplifh colour,be fet with long and nar- 
row leaues, not much vnlike to Rofemary, but longer ; of a greene colour aboue, but vnderneath 
hauing as it were a long rib, made orcompadfcof woollor downe • ofa lw.ee t and plealant fmell, 
and fomewhat (harpe in tafte :on the tops of the branches grow knops or heads, compact as it were 
of many fca!es,of an iron orruftie colour : out of which commeth and proceedcth a cetaine round 
and long mane, or hairy panickled tuft of floures, with many long, tender, greene, and fomewhat 
woolly ftalkes or twigs growing vnto them, of a fvveet fent and fmell : the floures confift of fine 
little white leaues, within which arc contained ten white chines with a long ftile or pointal in the 
midft of the floure : when the floures be vaded, there fuccced long knops or heads which are fine 
cornered in fhape and bignefle like vnto the fmitc and berries ofam^which being greene, are 
befpeckled with many filuer fpots,but being ripe, are of a red colour -conteining within them a 
loner yellow feed, which is fo fmall and (lender, that it is like to the dull or powder that falleth our 
ofworme ho'es. t This is the Ledum Silefiacum of CMw, and the Ledum Rmfmartmfilit of Taber- 
wnemunut - it is alfo the of iM* tthiolus • and Chxmtfeuce of Ctrdm -• and I am 
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