Tribe 16, Tbe Theater of 'Plants. Chap,53, 1469 
but the horttu Eyfietenfir. The third is called by Projper Alptntu., in his ftookz de plantij exotica Liguflrum nigrum } 
by which name itcame firftto Bauhinu* y is he faith,out of Italy , and afterwards from Signiou r Contarenibh Gar¬ 
den, by the name of Syringa UcimatU folijs, which he altcretb to Ligafirnm lacinhtis folijs y but itfeemeth he hid 
but onely a branch to lee, without flower,as it is in his defeription .and therefore could not further determine up¬ 
on it,but I have often feene it both in and out of flower, and doe he e give you both a full and true defeription of 
the plant, and the name that both we and Iacobus Cornutus let it out by, in his Booke of Canada plants, •zd*.. A gem - 
Ulag Perfamm y which as he faith fignifieth Lilac Perficum. A gem enim Perfideni ftgnificat, & Lilac florem, but 
came to us by the name of lafiminam /Vr/cww.becaufemany ofthc leaves are formed very like thole of Iafiminum 
Catolonicum y as I have {hewed you in the defeription, yet the trueft name to be impofed on it, is Lilac Perficum , 
as I have before fhewed you, and this is that Lilac laciniatis folijs t that J gave you undemanding of in my former 
Booke. The fourth is called Frutex coronarim by Clufiu* and Syringa alba by all other Authours but Label , who 
calleth it Syringa Italica, not chat he ever law it growing naturally \v»lde in Italy, but that he there found it very 
frequent in their Gardens, Tauhinus calleth it Syringa alba five phyladelpbus Athsnai. The laft is called Sambac 
Arabtimfive Iafminum ex Cjine , fo that it may not unfii ly be referred ro either, it is called Syringa Italicafiore albo 
p/e no, by Befier, who let out the great Garden of the Bifhop of Byfiot, although Bauhintu fcecne to make two 
forts of ic, ashiscuftome is in many other things,which ic is likely he never law,but upon Alpimu his refetnbling 
the leaves unto thofe of the Orenge tree, for thereby he maketh his diftineft ion. We may call it in Snglijb, either 
the double white Syringa or Pipe tree, or the double white Iafmine, according as ic is in Latine, which you will, 
although the Angle white hath nothing the likerefemblance in the flower to a Iafmine- 
The Vert ties, 
ThcreisnoufcofanyofthefeinPhyficke, that I know, and are but as ornaments in a Garden, and for the 
beauty and Iweeccneflc of the flowers there cherifhcd, unlefi'e any would make a perfume ofthc flowe'S, by m- 
fufingthem in the Sunne with oylcoflwccte Almonds, or draw aChymicall oyle out from the laidflowcrs, 
by diiiillation, onely the laft Alpmus fheweth the Egyptians doe ulc more for ornament to trimmeup and perfume 
themlelves, then for to helpe them in their difealev, neverthelcfle, they make faith he an oyle thereof, which 
their women uie in their bathings to mollifie the hardnefle and warme the coldneffe of the mother, for by their 
experience they have found it to be very helpefull for hard kernels and tumours in the flefh, and to caufc a more 
ealie and Ipeedy delivery in travaile of childbirth by drinking this oyle warme and annoyntiog the wombe alfo : 
Somculelikewifeto drinke that oyle warme, and to annoint the ftomacke outwardly therewith, againft the 
cough and fhorrnefle of breath,and againft the dangerous pleurilic, where one can hardly bring up the flegmc, or 
their lpittle,and againft Impoftumations in the lungs, and againft the violent paines in the ftomacke, bowels, or 
privities: the oyle is made after the manner aforelaid,either with oyle of Almonds or S efantum, and the flowers 
fteeped and funned. 
Chap, Bill. 
I. Oleander five Lauries Rofea , 
The Role Day or Oleander. 
SHereis of this Rofebay two forts, the one with 
' ci imfon coloured flowers, the other with white, 
, which are both fo like in leafe and growing, that 
' very hardly they can be diftinguilhed, lx fore they 
be in flower, and therefore one defeription flafll 
1 rve for them both, and fo might one figure alfo, but that I 
had them both ready cut in my hand, as 1 had m3ny others,that 
are inferted into this Woike. Thcftemmc or trunke hereof 
growethin vimewithus (but much more in the hotter cli¬ 
mates) to be as big below asarealopable mans wrift, anddi- 
videth it felfe upwards into many ftalkes, three for the moft 
part riling at a place and from each of them likewise, three o- 
ther branches, and to by degrees from three to three,as long as 
it groweth, the lo weft part of thebranches being bare with¬ 
out leaves,and keeping them only at the tops al the Winter,be¬ 
ing long & fomewhat narrow,more like to thole of the Peach, 
then Bay tree, but thicker and harder, of a darke greene above 
and ytllowifh below, the flowers come forth at the tops one¬ 
ly of the branchesjof a deepe crimlon colour while they are in 
the bud, and being blowne conlift of foure long and narrow 
leaves, with round ends,Come what twining themfelves, ofa 
paler red colour,tending to a deepe blufb, and in the other are 
white, without any mixture of other colour therein, butthe 
greene leaves are paler or frefher: after which come long 
crooked pods, hard or wooddy almoft on the outfide, and 
browne in the hot Countries, but was never feene to beare 
ripe pods-I thinke in our Country wherein is contained brow- 
nifti flat feede,wrapped in a great deale of moft fine brownifh 
yellow downe,as fine almoft as filke, the pods being lomewhat 
like unto the pods of A/clepias or Periploca> but larger, flatter, 
andnarder. 
x. Oleander fiore ruhro. 
The Rote bay vwthred tiowers. 
2 . Nerij 
