❀ The Description.
[ 1] THe first and the most cōmon Cypres, is a small tree or shrubbe of wooddy substance, with vpright braunches, bringing forth small, narrow, long and roūd, ragged or purled leaues, at the top of the braunches or stems groweth fayre Orenge-colour floures, like the floures of Tansey, but greater. The roote is of wooddy substance, with many strings or threddes hanging at it.
[ 2] The other Cypres is much like to the first in stalkes, leaues, floures, & fasshion, sauing that the braunches that bare the leaues are smaller, & set or couered with long small leaues, the floures be paler & smaller, and the whole herbe is not of so strong a sauour, but smelleth more gen∣tilly, and pleasantly.
[ 3] The third kind his leaues be smaller, & shorter, almost like the leaues of heath.
[ 4] The fourth kinde his leaues be more single, and like the leaues of the Cypresse tree, but they are white.
[ 5] The fifth hath softe wollie leaues, as it were layde with a certayne downe or fine Cotton: with stalkes creeping alōgst the ground. The floures of these three kindes, are not vnlike the floures of the first kinde.