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Show Cwar.7, Theatram Botanicnm. Theleat Snapdragon, {mall and blacker then the former,andthe roote perifheth alike and is fo alfo raifed againe, Banhinw hathanother of this fort with red flowers,whofe leaveshe faith are like Serpiikm,Mother of Time. The Place npr paid sabia : : Thefe grow wilde in Spaine,Italy,France,and otherp! lacea,but we have chem ontly in Gardens, where ¢ ey that mubeak them, thalllightly oa them continually, ifthey will fuffer them to fhed their feede being ripe, and are in flowerfrom I#/y untotheend of Augnjt. [ The Names, Theyare called Antirrhinum (yluefire, and arven{e majus, and. medium minusox miximem by all our moderne Writers, yet fome call them Orontium or Aurantium,and Os ternis : Honoris Bellwa in his {ccoud Epiftie ro Cln- fim caileth it Phyteuma, andfaith that in Candy the peoplecall it 20xevex, je Uertues, i Theres aslittleufe ofthefe wilde kindes in Phyficke,as of the garden kindesin our dayes,although Afatdhiolne faith chat theicaves, fowers, and feede aré goodforthe rifing of the mother, .to be mixed with Rofe waterand honey, and that che herb: doth caufe the Scorpion prefently to lofe the force of his poyfon, as{ooneias he feeth it, and that the herbe applyed to the forehead taketh away the pin and webin the eyes. See se pei nn Cuar. VII. $. Linum f\luefire axgd/tifolium ceruleo vel albo flove majoré: | Narrow leafed wilde Elaxe,with either white or blew Bowers. This wilde Piaxerifethtia fomeames but ‘with'sone ftalke,and often with more; a foote or fometimes more high, whichareftiffe, thicke,and hairy,fer with greater and broader hairy leaves, ‘then in any of the other forts, the ftalkes branch forth towards the toppes,bearing fiaialler leavesthen thofe below, and latger flowers, ¢vén'as great as Mallowes, of adeeperor paler blew colour, the heads containing the fecde are fet inthe greene huskes; that held the'flowers, whichropen being ripe, fhewing a blackeflat fhining feede like the re(t, the roote is'great andlivéth after feede time, {hooting new ftalkes with Woolly leaves on them, and fo abide all the Winter: this gtoweth it Mangary and Aufria, ; Ofthisfortthere was obferved by Clufind in Spaine, ers were white with purple veines in the leaves. 4 the manured kinde,and rather {peake thereof together,then diftin@ly ina Chapter byit felfe. 1. Linumfativem. Manured Flaxe, ; ‘The manured Flaxe hatha {lender round pliantftalke three foote high, befet with narrow long and foft leaves without order, branched at the to pe intothree or foure {mall’branches , each of them bearing two or three faire blew dowetemdde offive round pointed leaves apeece, with fome thredsin the middle, after which come round buttens pointed above, whercinis contained flat fhining {mooth browne feede : the roote is {mall and threddy,perifhing every yeare. 2. Linnmfylveftre vielgativs, The more common wilde Flaxe. This wild Flaxe groweth like the former,but hath greater and higher {talkes,more more {tore of biew flowers onthem,‘the feede al(o is like the former, but the feede branched at the toppes, and veflele therein,and not breake open with the heate of the Sanne, when it is ripe, asthe manured will hold the feede kinde will doc; which mutt be prefently gathered and kepr, 3. Lisam and ftiff:, with large leaves on them, and not hairy buthard: the dowersare many thar ftand’at'the toppes ofthe ftatkes,and large, ofa faire fhining yellow colour, wit» fome threds in the middle, the feede' veffels are'flat~ ter,and the fecde blacker then the other, and not (hinine like them: the rooté is thicke and crooked, with fibres thereat.and peritheth not butabideth many yeates. Baxbinus maketh mention of one with broad leaves, whofe ftalke is glutiaous orclammy, and the flower'ofa red colour which grew on the hills by Bovonia, and-aboitt Ingalftad in Germany. 5. Linum /ylveftre anguftifolium caruleo vel albo flore magno, Narrowleafed wilde Flaxe, with either white or blew flowers. This Flaxe hathfundry ftalkes, of a foate high,and ma- eh enORSSD Aving divérs forts ofwilde Flaxe to fhew you inthis Chapter, thoughtit fitto prevene them with fi 3. Lizum/ylueftre latifoliam cernleum. Broadleafed blew wilde Flaxe. i Cwar.7. 3+ Lindos fylvefive tarifolinm ceruleum, Broad leated blew wilde Flaze, 4. Linum /ylveftre latifolium luteum, Broadleafed yellow flowred Flaxe. The divers ftalkes of this Flaxe ate round browne; Linumfativum &fylvefire, Mawured and wilde Flaxc, =HD hs TheTheater ofPlants. one with large broad woolly leaves likeit, bat the fow- —— ole Trese t5. So Linumativwm fue yolgarss Manwed Flaxe, Antivrbinum (ylvere wisimem, 1. Antirrbinum fyluefire medians. ‘Thegreater wild Snapdragon. Saxatile Baubini Trine15. ee Sy Os a 1334 |