¶ The Description.
1 FRench Lauander hath a bodie like Lauander, short, and of a wooddie substance, but slen∣derer, beset with long narrow leaues, of a whitish colour, lesser than those of Lauander: it hath in the top bushy or spikie heads, well compact or thrust together; out of the which grow forth small purple floures, of a pleasant smell. The seede is small and blackish: the roote is hard and wooddie.
2 This iagged Sticadoue hath many small stiffe stalks of a wooddy substance; whereupon do grow iagged leaues in shape like vnto the leaues of Dill, but of an hoarie colour: on the top of the stalkes do grow spike floures of a blewish colour; and like vnto the common Lauander Spike: the root is likewise wooddie. ‡ This by Clusius who first described it, as also by Lobel, is called La∣vendula multisido folio, or Lauander with the diuided leafe; the plant more resembling Lauander than Sticadoue. ‡
3 There is also a certaine kind e hereof, differing in smalnesse of the leaues onely, which are round about the edges nicked or toothed like a saw, resembling those of Lauander cotton. The root is likewise wooddie.
‡ 4 There is also another kinde of Stoechas which differs from the first or ordinarie kind, in that the tops of the stalkes are not set with leaues almost close to the head as in the common kinde, but are naked and wholly without leaues: also at the tops of the spike or floures (as it were to recompence their defect below) there growe larger and fairer leaues than in the other sorts. The other parts of the plant differ not from the common Stoechas. ‡