Buxus.

The box-tree

Perpetuo viridis, crispóque cacumine buxus,
Unde est disparibus fistula facta modis,[1]
Deliciis apta est teneris & amantibus arbor:
Pallor inest illi, pallet & omnis amans.[2]

The box-tree is evergreen, with crinkly shoots. From it was made the pipe with its variously pitched notes. It is a tree appropriate to tender delights and to lovers. Box-wood is pale and so is every lover.

BUxus amasiorum naturam conditionémque re-
fert. habet enim perpetuum virorem, lignúmque
pallidum, quo tamen tibiae & fistulae componuntur:
Sic illi in amore perpetuò virent, sed tamen ex af-
fectibus plerisque biliosis pallorem contrahunt, ni-
hilominus sermone blando ac suavi oratione sem-
per aliquid concinunt.