X r i b e 2, c Ihe c [beater of‘Plantes. Chap.^i. 
abide greene all the winter; the flowers are very fmall, fcarce to be fecne, and come forth betweene the leaves 
and the ttalke, of a pale yellow colour, confiding of three fmall leaves, after which come fmall blackifh berries 
three ufually fet together: theroote fpreadethnot much in the ground but is hard andwooddy, dying often¬ 
times if it be not well defended in the extremitie of winter. 
6 . Sanamunda prima (flttpi. 'lire fir ft Spanifh Spurge Olive of Cluftts. 
This kind of Spurge Olive hath diverfe flexible pliant branched flalkes, riling up to a foote and a halfe high, 
covered with a blackifh barke, and under it with a gentle fmooth one, which may be eafily feparated into long 
threads : having many fmall and fomewhat long hairie leaves thicke fet on them, fmaller lharper and thicker 
than thofe of ChsmiUa or Dwarfe Bay, and commeth fomewhat neere in likenefle to the Sea Tithymall , or Sea 
Spurge, but fomewhat hayrie, of a bitter fharpe and burning tafle, fomewhat clammie orgummie in chewing: 
the flowers grow with and among the leaves on the branches,con(ifling of foure frrfSlljellow leaves a peeceiafter 
which come fmall biack'fh berries fomewhat like unto the lad : theroote is thicke long and vvooddy. Clttftm 
inentiOneth another hereof with fhorter leaves,and whiter or downie, and fmall yellow flowers in tufts. 
7. Sanamunda 3 Clttfi. The third Spanifh Spurge Olive of Cluftts. 
The third Spanifh kind of Spurge Olive, hath whiter and more pliant flalkes, covered with a thicker barke, 
very hard co breake, the fmaller toppe branches being almoft wholly white with dounc, which bend againe to¬ 
wards the ground, whereon are thicke fet a number of whitifli leaves, and thicke, covered as it were with cot- 
ten or dounc, fmaller than the laft, and very like to thofe of Stonecroppe of a fharpe hot burning tafle: the 
flowers are fmall and greeniih or pale (faith C Unfits like unto the others, the roote is thicke and vvooddy like the 
former. 
8. Scfamoides minusTTalechampU. A different Spanifh Spurge Olive. 
There is another fort of this plant as I thinke,that hDalechampitts as Lttgdmenfis faith,tiled to call Sefamoidesmi- 
war, thatisincomparifonofthe greater kind, was fet forth by him a little before, not underflanding th e-minus 
o(T)iofcorides, which is a farre differing plant: but this Sefamoides minus Dalechampii, hath fmall pale greene 
lea'-es, fet about the woolly flalkes: the flowers come forth at the j'oynts with the leaves, which arefmalland 
white,and notyellow, very fvvectc in fent, farre differing from all the reft in fweetenefle, 
p. Sanamnnda Monjpe/iacag/abra. Smooth French Spurge Olive. 
This greene or fmooth fpurge Olive, hath a thicke white wooddy roote, covered with a pale coloured gentle 
pliant thicke barke, from whence flioote out many fmall (lender branches, full of j'oynts, and of an hand breadth 
high: on each fide whereof are placed diverfe fmall fhort and narrow greene leaves, feldome round pointed, 
fomewhatlike unto the \ew.soi Poly gala MilkewortorGangflower: the flowers are (mail and yellow (lan¬ 
ding with the leaves and amongft them : the leede hath not beene obferved. 
10. Sanamundatydfricana. Spurge Olive of Africa. 
This African plant hath diverfe pliant [talks riling from the roote full ofj'oynts,and two fmall and almofl round 
leaves ar them, which fometimes lye fo dole to the flalke, that they feeme to be onely thicker joynts than the 
other: the flowers are yellowifh growing at the toppes of the llalkes: the roote is long and tough, with a rugged 
barke. 
The Place. 
The firfl groweth in many places in Spaine, as alfo in ftaly in Hetmria and about Trent as GManbioltis faith, and 
like wife in Narbone of Frame. The fecond in Germanic,Bohemia,2nd A«firia:Thc third in many places of Cjerma- 
nie alfo: The fourth in the mountaincs of Savoy : The fift in Trovence and Spaine ; the fixt in the Countries of 
Granado and J’alentia in Spaine as Clttfms faith. The feaventh both upon the liils, and neere the fea in fome pla¬ 
ces of Spaine. The eight by the Sea fide in the Ifland of Corf a, and is feldome feene, either in Spaine, Italy , or 
Trance.Thc ninth was found upon the hill neere Mompelier called Horttts Ttei.l he lad by Boeiius often remem- 
brcd in this and my former worke in Barbery. Alloft’nemare very tender, loving onely the wormer Countries, 
and will not without extraordinary care be kept in ours. 
The Time. 
The firfl flowreth not in Spaine untill Iuly and Augull,blit the red fome in Tanuary or February, and fome in 
March and April!, in their natural! places, and many with us not untill June or July, if they be preferred in the 
Winter. 
The Names. 
euua.aia. in Creeke is called ThymeUa in latine alfo with all writers, yttaf TithymeUa, cx Titbymah & Olea 
df.ttHa. The Arabians call this Mefercon promifcuoufly with ChamaUa Germanica, and Tricoccos, the Greekes 
call the berries hereof, properly ;},e.r.ot Coccum Cnidiurr. or gnidinm, as fome have it, butas Diofcorides 
faith, arc notthofe of ChameUa, yet affuredly the properties arenot fo farre differing, but that the berries of 
ChameUaany very well be ul’ed in the want of the other: Diofcorides faith that the leaves were called Cneontm 
in his time, whereupon Guilandinus rookt this to be Cneontm nigrum of Tkeophrttftas, as he doth the ChameUa to 
be Cneontm albxm(yfmSn Gan.11 tranflateth Cafa) for hereof they made two kinds,the one white the other black. 
Cordus in his bidory of plants calleth the Cneontm 'JMatthioli ThymeUa minor whom Eaubinus followed) (and fo 
doe I ) calling it ThymeUa afinis facie externa. But if I fhould in this place, upon this occafion.tofave the often 
repetitions in other places, fhew you all the opinions of other writers concerning (fneorttm, whereunto they doe 
referre them, and their contraries, I thinke I Ihould not doe amide: Angmllara maketh Lavendala to be Cneo- 
rum album, and Kofmarium to be nigrum, whom Matthialus refuted thus, that Thcophraflas faith both forts of 
Cneontm , fend downe long rooteslnto the ground, and the branches are pliant and gentle, fit to bindc things 
withall, neither of which properties can be found in Lavander or Rofmary, Matthiolus in his lad Latine editi¬ 
on, fetteth forth 2 figures of Cneorum, the one in the chapter of Cttumm, which he faith hath the true notes of 
Cneorum album 7 heophrafi, and the other in the chapter ot ThymeUa, which he thinketh to be nigrum: and in his 
third booke of Epidles, in that unto Ioannes frato, and in his fourth booke of Epitlles, in that to Bartholomews 
Maranta, as well as in his Commentaries upon Diofcorides, in the Chapter of Cinamon he is perfwaded that 
Tbeophraftus his white or fwcete Cneontm is the C a J’ ,a whereof Virgill in his line dick: and Geprgickes maketh fo 
often mention, and which Plinyc alfo from the teflimonies of Higimts, calleth Cajfa the fwcete herbeandnoc 
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