Tr IB E. 1. 
The Theater of Plants. 
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Wooddy, and fpreadeth in the ground: the whole plant is of a 
Wrong f'weet fcent, but the heads of flowers much more.and more 
piercing the fences, which are much ufed to bee put into linnen 
andapparell, There is alio a kinde hereof chat beareth white 
flowers, and fomewhat broader leaves but it is very rare, and 
kept but with a few with us, being more tender, and not fo able 
to endure our cold Winters. 
:. Lmetdula minor five Spica, Small Lavender or Spike. 
The Spike or fmall Lavender is very like unto the former, but 
groweth not fo high, neither is the head orfpike fo long, but 
fhorter and (mailer, and the flowers of a deeper purplifh blue co¬ 
lour : the leaves alfo are a little harder, whiter, and fliorter than 
the former : the icent alfo is fomewhat (harper and ftronger.This 
is nothing fo frequent with us as the firft, and is nurfed up but 
with few,that take delight in rare hearbesand plants, and kept 
in a warmer place. 
$,Lcivcndnlaminorflare alto. Small white Lavender or Spike with 
a white flower. 
This final! Lavender is in all things like unto the other fmall La¬ 
vender, but that the whole plant is fmaller, and the flowers are 
white, which maketh it to differ from the other. 
4 . Lctvendulctfolio mnltifido. lagged Lavender. 
This fmall Lavender rileth up with fquare rough and hoary 
branches, to the height of a foote and a halfe, bearing thereon 
many hoary whitifh leaves, very much jagged or torne on the 
ed^es, into many parts unto the middle ribae, and each part cut 
or jagged, ofa fharpe fade, and a pleafant fcent.yet much weaker 
than in the other (mail Lavender: from among which rifefoure- 
fquare hoary (hikes, without any leaves on them unto the toppes, 
where they beare fmall (pikes of purple flowers, like unco the 
fmall Lavender or Spike, but that the flowers feeme to (land 
fquare, or in foure parts or corners: the roote is hard and wood¬ 
dy like unto the other. 
7'he Place, 
The three firft forts are found naturally in many places of Spaine 
and Nurbane in France, where the other groweth, although both ~ 
forts with white flowers, are much more rare, and feldome, and 
nurfed up as I faid with us in their Gardens that are curious. The 
laft was found by Clujius both about CMalaca in Spaine and Mur - 
extin the Realrne of Granada: it groweth alfo fometimes in the 
gardens of thole that are curious of all rare hearbs and plants, 
The Time . 
Thefe all flower about the end oflune, and beeinning of ruly 
and although Clufuts faith hee found the laft about AUlaca in 
flower in February, and in March about CMurcia, yet it doth not 
flower in thefe colder Countries untill Iune at the looneft, or 
Iuly. J 
The Names, 
Lavender is called in Latine Lavandula, and LttvenittU, and of 
fome Layanda, quia lavacris expetitur, becaufe it was much ufed 
in warnings. The ordinary great Lavender is called by Matthio. 
Narauf Italic a, and Tfeudonardus. Tragus calleth it Spica 
Nardus Germanic a. but mod other Authors Lavcndiila major mas’ 
as they doe the fmaller, minor & ftmina. Talechampius npon 
p 7 Would make it to bee Coffin alba, as hee would alfo have 
Roimary to be Caff a nigra, and of fome to be the Iphium ofTheo- 
Tg’ajtnu It is thought of many, to be the Cneorum that Pliny faith 
Migrans called C*fia . which was frequently planted in the oar- 
dens ot Italy for their Bees to feed on, and was alfo ufed in Gar¬ 
lands,whereof Virgil in his Georgickj and Bucolicks maketh men¬ 
tion, Before Higinus or Phnies time, in thefe verfes. 
Lavendula. ntitjoy fine itu*gp.ris. 
Garden Lat'endei). 
F tore 
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% Lavendu’af olio mnltifido. lagged Lavender; 
Turn Cafa^atcjue alijs intexens fttavibus her bis 
Mollia luteola pin git vaccinia caltha, and againe 
Tix humiles apibus cetfias , roremejue miniftrat. and 
lYec circum cajia virides , & olentia late 
Serpjjlla , er gray iter fpirantis copia thymbrx 
< Floreat , irriguumque bibat violariafontcm , 
