THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE A HISTORY OF PLANTS. (T

ontdining the Defiription, ‘Place, Time,._7\@mer,:-Wture, amt’ ertzzesgf of Trees, Slmzés, ?Bu/her, Frztibévearing ‘Pl4nt.r,7{0flm,- §um.r,‘I{ofl::, Heeztb, ciflloflegfome Indian ‘Plants, mm’ at’/Jer rdre Tlaizts not i rememérecz’ in the Troeme to t/Jefir/Z Boo/Qe. e,/1 M2 Mzg/bromi, Comll, mm’ t/aeirfiuemfl Kinda: , (re;

The Proenie:

' Auiiig Eniihed thetreatife of Herbs and Plants in genera’!-,vf'ed for mea't,medicine,or fweieti , fmelling vfe, only fome few omitted for want of perfea infiru élion 5 and alfo being hinde- pl _‘ red by the flacknelfe of the C litters or grauers of the Figures: thefe wants we intend to (up. V111 this third and laft part. The Tables as well general as particular [hall be let forth in the end

this prefent Volume.

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CHAP. I. 0ffR0/I’-V-‘ ti} The Kindes.

, ’~ He 15lant of Rates, though itbe a {limb full of prieldes, yet it had bin more fit and con- ' <2 uenient to haue placed it with the molt glorious oures of the w0rld,than to in let: the 3’'~-‘ fame here among bafe and thorny fhrubs:for the Role doth deferue the chief and pfimt:

an ' place among all floures whatfoeuer ; beeing not onely elteemed for his beanty,vertues, Ii his fragrant and odoriferons fmell ;bn't alfo becaufe it is the honor and ornament of out Eag- La S°€pter,as by the conjiinélzion appearetli, in the vniting of thdfe two molt Royall Houfes of nfzafler and Yorke. Which pleafant floures deferue the chiefell place in crownes and garlands: Latihficteon T/Jim a moll antient Grecke Poet (whom {Ienricm Step/Jam: hath tranllated in a 33113“ €Verfe) affirmes in thol°eVerfes ofa Rofe,‘ beginning thus;

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