¶ The Description.
1 THe Orpyn with purple floures is lower and lesser than the common Orpyn: the stalkes be slenderer, and for the most part lie along vpon the ground. The leaues are also thin∣ner and longer, and of a more blew greene, yet well bodied, standing thicker below than aboue, confusedly set together without order: the floures in the tufts at the tops of the stalks be of a pale blew tending to purple. The roots be not set with lumpes or knobbed kernels, but with a multi∣tude of hairy strings.
2 This second Orpyn, as it is knowne to few, so hath it found no name, but that some Herba∣rists do call it Telephium sempervivum or virens: for the stalkes of the other do wither in winter, the root remaineth greene; but the stalkes and leaues of this endure also the sharpenesse of Winter; and therefore we may call it in English, Orpyn euerlasting, or Neuer-dying Orpyn. This hath lesser and rounder leaues than any of the former: the floures are red, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 root fibrous.
‡ 3 Clusius receiued the seeds of this from Ferranto Imperato of Naples, vnder the name of