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The Theater of'Plants. Chap-60, 1481 
1. erica vulgaris. Common Heathe. 
The Heath that groweth mod frequent in our Land, isalovv fhrubby plant, little above halfe a yard or two 
foote highjWith rough wooddy browntfb (hikes and lundry branches,plentifully Aored with (mall fhorr greene 
leaves like tothofe ot'Tamariske, foure ufuatly fee together, from the middle to the ends of the branches, Hand 
fmall bottle like bright purplifh flowers at feverall dillanccs about the llalkes, and ending in foure corners, in 
which grow fmall ltedc when they arc palltthe roote ipreadethdeepe, lometimes this is found with vt htte flow- Flotealh 
ers.but very fcldome. 
2. erica vnl?Arii hirfutior, Common rough Heath. 
This other Heath groweth like the former in all things, but iomeu, hat higher,the leaves whereof are alike alfd, 
but more rough, and ofa hoary greene almod white : the flowers alfoaie like, but lomewhat falcr, and herein 
confi(leththe !5 chicfcft difference : the rootes of both grow downe.and are ftrongly fallned in the earth : theleed 
is like,and fo is the roote. 
3. gricaGrua Pher.a diCht. The Greckilh common Heath. 
Bclhmm in his firft Booke of Obfervations, and the 5 3. Chapter, thac giveth us the knowledge of this Heath, 
faith, that meeting certaineboyes that had gathered bundles of Heath about Syderocapfa in Macedonia to burne, 
which they called Phan*, wasdefirous toknowthe difference betweene it and common Heath, and by them 
he learned this, as one efpeciall note of differencc,that it is eaftly pulled up by the rootes, without any iulUuraent 
to digge the ground,when as the other common fort cannot be gotten out without a fpade to digge it. 
The Place and Time , 
The firfl groweth tftfoughout the Land in watte grounds.that are called Heathes, becaufe this kinde of plant 
groweth mod plentifully thereon t the lecond groweth on ivindfor Heath, where Clnfius faith he found it, and 
the lad in many places of Greece,the firlf and lecond arc found fomccimes twile flowring in the j eare uluallys in 
Inly ana AnguflpmA fometimes in the Spring alfo. 
The Names, 
The genera'll name for Heathe in Greeke is t utTetralix by the Athenians as Pliny faith, in Latine Erica; 
and of lomc Afyrirnqmiftaking it, ye:by farm sifara ,but that particular fort here flrewed von in the third place 
is called Phana now adayes by the Greekes. Marcellas was in a vtry great etrour, that made Heath a kindeof 
Broome,becauleit ferveth to the fame ufc,thatis,colvveepe houfes. I he firft is by all called Erica vulgarity and 
Erica Myricafolioby LobelmA fluftm who alio fo calleth the fecond.,which Bauh'mw laiih, lometooke to be the 
Selagofl'miy. The lad is ludiciently exprefled in the defetiption, and here before. The Italians call it Erica, the 
Spaniards QttctriSjthe Erench'Eruicre , the Cjermaties and the 'Hatch Hcyden t and we Heath, 
Chap. LX- 
i. Erica feru folio maxima alba t 
The great white flowred Heathe. 
lfr=atWXS : His Heath groweth the greateft afany, even as tall 
H as a man, and yec fometimes much lower, with 
wooddy brownedalkes and branches, the leaves 
being fmall,round arid fhort, lomewhat like ihole 
of Coijy let in a quadripartite forme, or erode fa- 
fhion. the flowers hkewile grow fottte togetherar a ipacc, 
from the middle of the branches upwards, forming a very long 
fpike ofa foote long, and arc like imall long and hollow white 
bottles lomewhat fweete.the leede and rootes ate like the for¬ 
mer kindcs. 
a. Erica Co is folia maxima pttrpt/rafcens. 
The great purple flowred Heath. 
This dlffereth from the former in nothing, but in having 
(knderer dallies,yet as high, and in til. flowers, which are long 
and hollow like them,but ol a purplifh colour. 
Another like hereunto Matthulm lecteth forth with flowers 
onely atthetoppes of the branches. 
3. £ricama]orfloribtts exherbaccopurpurcis. 
Greene Heath with purplidi greene flowers. 
This likewifc dlffereth little from the lad, but onely that it 
is lower and more largely (p'ead,and hath darker greert leaves, 
foure fet together all along the branches, and flowerslikewife 
up to the toppes in forme like them, but of a whitifh greene 
purple colour being fully growne. 
4. Ericafcoparia. Erufh Heath. 
The Brufh Heath groweth dole and round, with fundry 
flender branches, and fmall greene leaves on them, which 
quickely fall away from the dallies being a little dry, and the 
flowers two together far the mod part, fmaller then the for¬ 
mer, and ofan herby greene co'our, but hollow as the other: 
befides thefe, it likewise fotnerimesbeareth Imall fcaly heads 
oflcaves,like unto thofe of the common hard Time, 
2. Erl'a Coris folia maxima purpurofeem. 
The great purple flowed Heath. 
