| 1 | Colutæa vulgaris. Ordinary bastard Sene. |
| 2 | Periploca recta Virginiana. Virginian Silke. |
| 3 | Colutæa Scorpioides. Scorpion bastard Sene. |
| 4 | Spartum Hispanicum. Spanish Broome. |
| 5 | Ligustrum. Priuet. |
| 6 | Saluia variegata. Party coloured Sage. |
| 7 | Maiorana aurea. Guilded Marierome. |
Chap. CXXIIII.
Periploca recta Virginiana. Virginian Silke.
Lest this stranger should find no hospitality with vs, being so beautifull a plant, or not finde place in this Garden, let him be here receiued, although with the last, rather then not at all. It riseth vp with one or more strong and round stalkes, three or foure foote high, whereon are set at the seuerall ioynts thereof two faire, long, and broad leaues, round pointed, with many veines therein, growing close to the stemme, without any foote-stalke: at the tops of the stalkes, and some times at the ioynts of the leaues, groweth forth a great bush of flowers out of a thinne skinne, to the number of twenty, and sometimes thirty or forty, euery one with a long foote-stalke, hanging downe their heads for the most part, especially those that are outermost, euery one standing within a small huske of greene leaues, turned to the stalkeward, like vnto the Lysimachia flower of Virginia before described, and each of them consisting of fiue small leaues a peece, of a pale-purplish colour on the vpperside, and of a pale yellowish purple vnderneath, both sides of each leafe being as it were folded together, making them seeme hollow and pointed, with a few short chiues in the middle: after which come long and crooked pointed cods standing vpright, wherein are contained flat brownish seede, dispersedly lying within a great deale of fine, soft, and whitish browne silke, very like vnto the cods, seede, and silke of Asclepias, or Swallow-wort, but that the cods are greater and more crooked, and harder also in the outer shell: the roote is long and white, of the bignesse of a mans thumbe, running vnder ground very far, and shooting vp in diuers places, the heads being set full of small white grumes or knots, yeelding forth many branches, if it stand any time in a place: the whole plant, as well leaues as stalkes, being broken, yeeld a pale milke.
The Place.
It came to me from Virginia, where it groweth aboundantly, being raised vp from the seede I receiued.
The Time.
It flowreth in Iuly, and the seede is ripe in August.