¶ The Description.
1 PYrola hath many tender and verie greene leaues, almost like the leaues of Beete, but 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in my opinion like to the leaues of a Peare-tree, whereof it tooke his name Pyrola, for that it is Pyriformis. Among these leaues commeth vp a stalke garnished with pret∣tie white floures, of a verie pleasant sweet smell, like Lillium Conuallium, or the Lillie of the Valley. The root is small and threddie, creeping farre abroad vnder the ground.
‡ 2 This differs from the last described in the slendernesse of the stalkes, and smalnesse of the leaues and floures: for the leaues of this are not so thicke and substantiall, but very thinne, sharpe pointed, and very finely snipt about the edges, blacker; and resembling a Peare-tree leafe. The floures are like those of the former, yet smaller and more in number: to which succeed fiue cor∣nered seed vessels with a long pointell as in the precedent: the root also creepes no lesse than that of the former, and here and there puts vp new stalkes vnder the mosse. It growes vpon the Austrian and Styrian Alpes, and floures in Iune and Iuly.
3 This is an elegant plant, and sometimes becomes shrubbie, for the new and short branches growing vp each yeare, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 remaine firme and greene for some yeares, and grow straight vp, vntill at length borne downe by their owne weight they fall downe and hide themselues in the mosse. It hath commonly at each place where new branches growe forth, two, three, or foure thicke verie greene and shining leaues, almost in forme and magnitude like to the leaues of Laureola, yet snipt about the edges, of a very drying taste, and then bitterish. From among these leaues at the Spring of the yeare new branches shoot vp, hauing small leaues like 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vpon them, and at their toppes