A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of the Rose.

THe Rose sayth Theophrast, (although it hath but one name for so sundrie kindes) yet it is knowen well inough in his kindes, ei∣ther by number and accoumpt of leafe, either else by sharpenesse, lightnesse, colour, or smell. They of this kinde for the most part haue fiue leaues: there are some found that haue .xij. o∣ther some .xx. other some haue farre many mo. There be also sayth he, which bene called hun∣dreth Leaues. Whereof many came from Phi∣lippos, which being first brought from Pan∣geus the verie armehole or elbow of Thrace, are now set and do grow in many other places Those be saith he of most swéete smell, which growe in Cyrena: and hereof is made with the Apothicaries a moste swéete confection or

Ointment. In Cyrena also there is the best Uiolet, and that which is of pure smell.