Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
turn into little feed, like the feed of Rocket, but leffer : the whole plant is of the fubftancc of heath 
andwooddie. • 
2 The fecond figure fetteth forth the dried plant, as it is brought vntovs from beyond the Teas- 
which being fet into a difhofwarme water, for halfe an houre, openeth it felfe in formers when 
it did grow, and taken forth vntill it be drie, returneth Unit vpagaineas before. 
qj The Place. 
It groweth in the barren grounds of France, and other hot regions, among the Heath and fuch 
like plants :it isaftrangerin England, yet dried we haue them in great plenty, $ I haue not read 
nor heard that this grows wilde in France; buc Belloniw faith itgrowes in Arabia defirta : Bauhme 
faith it eafily grew and flourilhed many yeares in his garden at Baiiil. f 
The Time. 
The feed being fowne in our cold climate, is fowne in Aprill ; itperiiheth when it is fprungvp 
and bringeth neither fioures nor feed. b ” 
<([ The Names. 
Th is kinde of Heath is called Rofa Hiericonteafit de Uicrichofhtt Rofe of Ierico: offome the Rofe 
ofIerufalem,and alfo Rofi CMarix : in Englifii,the Heath Rofe. 
The Temperature and Vert ties. 
There is not any of the antient nor later writers' that haue fet dovvne any certaintie of this plant A 
as touching the temperature and faculties, but onely a bare picture with a flender defeription. 
Aaaaaa % 
% The 
C h a p. 54. Of the Qhajle Tree. 
I Vi t ex, five Agnus Cajius. 
The Chafte tree. 
£ 2 Vitex latiorc ferrate folio. 
Chaite tree with cut leaues. 
