To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
1 DIoscorides that gaue so many rules for the knowledge of simples, hath left Hyssope al∣together without description, as beeing a plant so well knowne that it needed none: whose example I follow not onely in this plant, but in many others which bee com∣mon, to auoid tediousnesse to the Reader.
2 The second kind of Hyssope is like the former, which is our common Hyssope, and differeth in that, that this Hyssope hath his small and slender branches decked with faire red floures.
3 The third kinde of Hyssop hath leaues stalkes, branches, seed, and root, like the com∣mon Hyssope, and differeth in the floures on∣ly, which are as white as snow.
4 This kinde of Hyssope of all the rest is of the greatest beauty; it hath a wooddie root tough, and full of strings, from which rise vp small, tough, and slender flexible stalkes, wher∣upon do grow infinite numbers of small Fen∣nel-like leaues, much resembling those of the smallest grasse; of a pleasant sweet smel, & aro∣matick taste, like vnto the rest of the Hyssops but much sweeter; at the top of the stalks do grow amongst the leaues smal hollow floures, of a blewish colour tending to purple. The seeds as yet I could neuer obserue.
‡ 5 This differs from the first descri∣bed, in that the stalkes are weaker and shorter, the leaues also narrower, and of a darker co∣lour: the floures grow after the same manner, & are of the same colour as those of the com∣mon kinde. ‡
We haue in England in our gardens ano∣ther kinde, whose picture it shall be needlesse to expresse, considering that in few words it may be deliuered. It is like vnto the former, but the leaues are some of them white, some greene, as the other; and some green and white mixed and spotted, very goodly to behold.
Of which kinde we haue in our gardens moreouer another sort, whose leaues are wonderfully curled, rough, and hairie, growing thicke thrust together, making as it were a tuft of leaues; in taste and smell, and in all other things like vnto the common Hyssope.
I haue likewise in my garden another sort of Hyssope, growing to the forme of a small wooddie shrub, hauing very faire broad leaues like vnto those of Numularia, or Monywoort, but thicker, ful∣ler of iuice, and of a darker greene colour; in taste and smell like the common Hyssope.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 figure in the third place was of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 2. of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉.