Ta I b e 5. 
Tbe Theater of Tlants. 
Chap.87. 66 5 
in my former booke, comming ncaretothe forme of Bay leaves, otadarkefhininggrcene colour on theupper 
fide, and grayifn underneath, which are clammy in feeling as the young fihoots andftalkes artalfo, and of a 
ftrong fweet lent to be felt a great way off.efpecially in the hot Summer time,& in the naturall places,much more 
then in thefe conutries : at the toppes of every branch come forth fingle white flowers, made of five broad round 
pointed leaves, fometimes without any fpots in them, as is alfo to bee fecne in that other with narrow 
leaves formerly d. feribed, and fometimes having a darke purple fpot at the boctome of every leafe pointed up¬ 
wards,which in forne are greater mothers leffer, with divers yellow thredsin the middle: after the flowers are 
pall there come in their places fomewhat round great hard heads, conteining within them fmall brownifh feede; 
the root is wooddy.and lpreadech many branches but not very deep. Label maketh mention of a fort hereof which MyrtifoU- 
beecalieth Latifoliumoy Mjrtifal'mm, which hath fundry leaves comming forth together in other things little am feu La* 
differing from the former. 
2. Cishti Lriian Popultieaf/owle major. The greater fwcete Ciftus with Poplar like leaves. Lobetj. 
This greater Iweete Ciftus rifeth not fo high as the former, but about three foote, the brittle branches have 
leaves fet on them, in the fame manner that they are in the former, thatistwo ata joyntone againft another, but 
are larger then in any fort of Ciftus, being like unto the leaves of Ivie, or the blacke Poplar tree, broadell at the 
flalke, and pointed long at the end, greene on the upper fide and grayifh underneath, fomewhat thickc and 
rough in handling, not having while they are young any da'mminefle or fweereneffe on them at all, but onely 
when they are growne old : the flowers are wholly white,and fmaller then in eyther of the former, yeeldin" five 
fquarc pointed heads,with fmall blackifh feede in them. 
3. Ciflfu Ledon Populnea fr.or.de miner. The fmaller fweet Ciftus with Poplar leaves. 
This other Ciftus is in all things like the laft, but that it groweth much lower, and the leaves although of the 
fame forme, yet much fmaller. 
4. CjJlttJ Ladanifera Cypria. The fweete Gum bearing Ciftus of Cyprus, 
This Candy kindc of fweete Guin Ciftus groweth with his blackifh fpreading branches not much above two 
foote high, whofe blackifh greene leaves are not fo large as the firft here fet forth, nor fo narrow as that kind 
which is exprelTed in mp former booke but betweene them both, plentifully ftored (no doubtJ in the na¬ 
turall countrey with that Iweete clammy dew or gum that is in the others of this kind,although nothin-* fomuch 
in thefe colder Tranfalpine countries: the flowers are white like unto the fecond fort here expreffed, and fo are 
both heads and feede. 
y. Ciftw Ledonhirfutnmjive quartern Chtfii. The fweete Gum Ciftus with hairy leaves. 
Theieavcs of this Ciftus are fofterthen in others,and fomewhat hairy,being long and narrow, but round poink 
ted,let on the (lender weake branches that are (carle two foote high, but as full of that clammy gumminefle 
as in any other, as well when they are young as old : the flowers are fmall and white like untorhofe of the' 
female Ciftus: the feede that followcth therp in great skinny heads is black but larger then in any of the reft. 
