2. Lauendula minor seu Spica. Small Lauender or Spike.
The Spike or small Lauender is very like vnto the former, but groweth not so high, neither is the head or spike so great and long, but shorter and smaller, and of a more purplish colour in the flower: the leaues also are a little harder, whiter, and shorter then the former; the sent also is somewhat sharper and stronger. This is not so frequent as the first, and is nourished but in some places that are warme, and where they delight in rare herbes and plants.
The Place.
Lauender groweth in Spaine aboundantly, in many places so wilde, and little regarded, that many haue gone, and abiden there to distill the oyle thereof whereof great quantity now commeth ouer from thence vnto vs: and also in Lanquedocke, and Prouence in France.
The Time.
It flowreth early in those hot Countries, but with vs not vntill Iune and Iuly.
The Names.
It is called of some Nardus Italica, and Lauendula, the greater is called Fæmina, and the lesser Mas. We doe call them generally Lauender, or Lauender Spike, and the lesser Spike, without any other addition.