Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 141I 
C h a p. 7 1. Oj the <£\£yrtle Tree. 
T he Defer ipttoti. 
I npHe firft and great ell Ottyrtm is a fmall tree, growing to the height ofa man,hauing ma- 
* ny faire and pliant branches, couercd with a browne barke, and fet full o( leases much 
like vnto the Laurell or Bay leafe,but thinner and fmalIer,fomewhat refembling the leaues of Peru- 
incle, which being bruifed do yeeld forth a mod fragrant fmell, not much inferiour vnto the fmell 
of Cloues,as all the reft of the kindes do : among thefe leaues come forth fmall white floures, in 
fhape like the floures of the Cherry tree, but much fmaller,and ofa pleafant fauour, which do turn 
into fmall berries, greene at the firft, and afterwards blacke. 
I iMjrtus Latire a maxima. % 2 MytutBat'tcalatifol’a. 
The Myrtle tree. Great Spanifh Myrtle. 
2 There is alfo another kind of Siirttu called CMytus Baltic* latifolid, according to Clufimtijr* 
Us La; L.that hath leaues alfo like Bay leaues, growing by couples vpon his pleafan. 
dies in a double row on both fidesof the ftalkes, of a light greene colour and fomevyhat thicker 
than the former,in fiat and fmell fwcet : the floures and fruit are not much differing from the firft 
kl j dC There is likewife another kinde of CMyrtus called Exotica that is ftrange and not common : 
it groweth vpright vnto the height ofa man like vnto the laft before mentioned but that it is reple- 
niLd with greater plenty of leaues, which do fold in themfelues hollow and altnoft double ,broa- 
Sen Pointed, and keeping no order in their growing, but one thrufting within another, and as it were 
rrniw one anothercoMufedly-in all other points agreeing with the precedent 
flat an 1 p!aine,and not crumpled or folded at all, they are alfo much f.mUer than any “V 
mer The fruit is in ftupe like the other, but that it is ofa white colour, whereas the fruit Oi the 
°tj Cr Thiels' 'alfo another kinleof Myrtle , called Mytus minor , or noble Myrtle, as being the 
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