Tkeatrum!Botanicum 
ther,hanging downe.and are of a hr all lent; the flowers being paft, there come fomecimes, but not often in out 
Country,long and flat cods,confiding as it were of two fides, with a thin skin in the middle, -wherein are contai¬ 
ned two long flattilh red (cede : the rootes are llrong and grow deepe in the ground. 
a. Lilac five Syringa fieri Utteo five argent eo. The lilver coloured Pipe tree. 
This Pipe tree differeth not from the former,either in liemmeor branch,either in lealeor flowers.or manner of 
growing from the laft, but onelv in the colour of the flower,which is of a milky filver colour, which hath a (View 
of blew therein,comming fomewhat neere unto an aflicolour. 
3 • Syringa Perfca five Lilac Perfcum incifis foliys lafminnm Perfcum clichim. 
The blew Per fun Ialmine or Pipe tree. 
This Terfan Iafmine (or Per fan Lilac, whether you will)is a Ihrub.or (hrubby plant, never riling into a tree 
like the former, yeclding many tvvigges, or ftems and fuckers from the toote, whole wood is loft having a pith 
in the middle, as the other, feldome riling above a mans height, having a fmooth blacldfh greene barke, with 
fundry winded leaves thereon, on all Tides, lome whereof as well thole below as above, will be whole without 
any divilion therein, relembling a Privet iealc, others will be cut in on the one fide or the other, or both, and di¬ 
vers will be halfe like,or wholly like the poftnre, and divilions of the Catalonian Iafmine refembling it io neere!-/ 
that thereby it esme to be called a Ialmine : at the toppes of the fptigs and branches Hand many tufts of flowers, 
in a long fptke,of fo.ure leaves a psece,fol:ketinco the tormcr Lilac, that at the firfl view of them you mav tmely, 
define it to be a Lilac, the colour onely excepted, which in this is more purplilh, and of as fweetea lent or la¬ 
ther flrongcr: after the flowers are paft,follow the like irr.all long blackilli leede, indofedin lomewhat long and 
pointed h.iskes like the former but letter. This doth in every pare, except the growth and leaves, come ncei eft to 
our ordinary Lilac,and doth in nothing but the leave - rclemblea Ialmine: for both the wood is white and pithy 
and the flowers grow in tufts or fpikes, and appearc in May when no Ialmine doth,but the Lilac : the feed like- 
wife is contained in hard huskes,asthe Lilac and not as the lafmine.hke a Lupine,of a fofc fabftance,and laifly the 
tide of this is (cm. what harfli, with lome altriftionin the end, and the Iafmine hath a bitter lharpe biting talic, 
and very aflringetst withall. Yet as I faid before, ihisismoftlikclyto be Serapio bis blew Iafmine. Theroote 
fpreadeth many branches with fibres to them, underground, and may very well be propagated by the (uckers: 
this holdeth his greene leaves in the Winter,no more then the others doe. 
Thisaflir edly is the Icfminum caruleum of Serapio, whereof formerly there was great doubt among Herbarifts 
whether there were fuch a thing in rerum natura, very many denying it.becaule they either never law this or ne¬ 
ver considered it. 
4. Syringa jLr: albo fimplici. The fingle white Pipe tree. 
This Duflr never beateth any great ftem or body, but fhooteth forth moft ulually many pliant brow nifh twigs 
01 fhootes, andgrayifh when they grow elder,being pithy in the middle like the former, ar each joync Hand two 
lea-, es lomewhat like the former,tut more rugged or crumpled, a little pointed at the ends, and dented about the 
e'ges: the flo-.vers grow at the toppes ofthe branches,many let together, confifting of foure leaves, as large as 
the Muske Rofes, and of the fame cteatr.c colour,with many linall yellow threds in the middle.ol a ftrong fweer, 
full and heady lent, not pie (r-g to a great many, by tealonof theftrong quickenefle of the fentafter which 
folloiveth the finite,flat at the head, with many leafy fcalescompalfingir, wherein is enciof.d Imall long iced : 
the tootes runne netdeepe intotb-groundnut Ipread with many fibres thereat. 
5. Syringa Arabica jhre duplici. Hie double white Pipe tree. 
The double Pipe tree from a Ihort thickeftumpe, r.ot riling h-gb above the ground, fliooteth f.-rth disc r. Iona 
and (Under branches,whereon grow large leave-, fotr.e What tike unto the laft,but not to rough or hard, ... r dc - 
ted ;r ail about the edges, two alwaies Handing cne againft another at the/oynts, but fctor’dilpoleJ or. c.-.i-traty 
fries, and not upon two oaely; acche ends whereof come forth three or foure flowers, wre ry one on a ftr-'.kel-/ 
it Iclfe, which aie long and hollow below,like the white Iafmine, and have a double ro w of white romiipai - 
ted leaves; tireor fixe in atow atthetoppe, Iteming like unto a double white Ialmine flower tut Lv:mc with 
lome yellownefl'c in the middle, which is hollow, of a very flrang and heady Iweete lent like the fingfekindc, 
and abide long flowring.efpecially in the hotter Countries,but is very tender, and not abiding the leaft cold wt 1- 
ther with as,the cold windes greatly moleflir.git in the hotter Countries, and muft therefore be kept with us as 
charily as Orengc trees,or ratlier more. 
The PLiceznd Time . 
The firfl groweth in Arabia as cMatthiolm thinketh, who had it from Cmttantinop/e : but now is plentifully 
to be found in many Gardens of cur Land as well as others. The fecond is a ftranger with us as yet. 1 he third 
is very like to come firfl out of PcefajH the name importeth.it is now to be feenc with Mailer Tradefcant,iz South 
Lambeth. The fourth is almoft as frequent as the fitfl, but the originall place is not certainely knowne. The 
laft hath the originall from Arabia , as the name impoiteth. The firfl,fecond, and third, doe flower in Alay, the 
fourth in June ,and the laft later. 
The Llama. 
1 Some have taken thefe to be kindes of lalini .es, and that therefore the Arabians Sdmbac, doth as fitly agree to 
thefeastothe Iafmir.es, for Cefalpmm taketh the firfl, which Mattbio/m called Lilac, and lo divers others after 
him,to be the lafmir.um ctruleum Afaaritamrunt, or the Liguftntm (neither of which itca-ibe, for the 
c rP r ‘« Plirij, as I have (hewed you before, may moft fitly be called by that name, and the blew Iafmine is as I faid 
-•■cry probable to be the third,which we call the Perfian Iafmine) C lt, f i,u fiamerariws and others, call it Syringa 
• 1 , Yc,and Label and others Syringa carnica Lufitanica, it is thought that BeUoniw underftandeth this plant,where 
oe latch mat the Tier bes have a flirub with Ivy leaves alwayes greene, bearing violet blew flowers on a long 1 oi- 
ked ilalke many together.of the bignefle and fafhion of a Foxccale.and thereupon called Foxetale in their tongue, 
yet this of ours beareih noc greene leaves in Winter, as Bclionim (mb.lib.3 .c-.50.that doth,whether it doe there¬ 
in differ from ours, or whether he be miftaken, it refteth doubtfull. Some tisLugcbiner.fi faith, have taken this 
plant to be the Oflryt 0 - Oflrya, of Thtophraftm, becaule it bcareth fmall leede like unto Barley, and feme would 
have the white Syringa here fee forth, robe his Oy?r^/likewife for the fame caufe, but I have (hewed you the 
.r-ue 0 •Irys Tbeorhrajii be fore,as Gtufm hath fofficiently declared It. The fecond is remembred in no Atithour 
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