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Show Of the Hiftorie.of Plants. 466 Lite, floures; the whichbeing paft,there followflat and rough huskes,of'a whitith colour,in fh ape lity little targets or bucklersavherein is contained flat feed like tothe feeds of tock Gillofloues hi bigger, Thewhole huskeis‘of the famefubftance, fafhion,and colour that thofe areofthewhite Sattin. Thefe Plants are fowne now and then in Gardens, efpecial ly for therareneffe of the Ms the feede beeing brought out of Spaine and Italy ,ftom whence I receiued fomefor my Garden, ; @ The mie, Theyfloure and flourith in May..5 thefeede is ripein Auguft, the fecond yeare after theiy fowing.” j = Then Madwoort,or Moonwoort is called Englith, Galeas Madwor H fentremedyfor them tharare bitten ofa Antidotis, in Antoninus Cous his c verylike to Horehound,butrougher, and tending to blew of Grecian lath the name thereof,becaufe itisa pre. ; den writeth;who in his fecond-booke pe t inthefe words: Madwoort isan hetbe more full of prick les about thefloures:it beareth'a fou The fecond by p Diofior id 5 Gefucr mames L nd others, is reputed to bee the 4hfin of nd Colzmma,L Galen faith it is fea cured, as setfely ture meanlydriedicett “2 <Montanum Lunatum, $ q The Names, It ts called Conftantinopolitanus flos, and Lychnis Chalcedonica » of Aldrouan > Flos Creticu s , of Floure of Candy ofthe Germans, flas Hierofo lymitanus,or Floure ofIerufalem : in Englif h,Floure of Conftantinople , of fome, Floure ofBriftow, or None-fuch, | The Temperature andVertues. Floure of Conftantinople, befides that grace andbe auty which ithath in ga is,for ought we know, ofno vie, tHe vertues thereof being not as yet found our, Cuar, 126, 1 Lychinis Coronariarubra, RedRofe Campion, Of Rofe-Campion. 2 LychnwsCoronariaalba White Rofe Campion, ofa mad dogge,whichtherebyar yartificiall applicaD5 tion or method atall, The whichexperim phewand Su : of the Latines cAlyffiom: in : OftheHiftory ofPlants, confifteth of aroot full oflife 3 and endureth long, and.can away with the cold of our clymat e, n the working thereof. It is of tempcu- fomething fcoureth withall:for this caufeit taketh awaythe mor. > Authouraffirmeth, inde ofSideritis, I haac here omittedchat I may giueyouit mote fitly amongtt there SSEee 7s he Rindes. "Here be diuersforts of Rofe Campions; fome of “ the Garden,andothers of the Field : thewhich hal bedinidedintofeueral| chapters:andfirft ofthe Cam: pion of Conftantinople. The Defcription, 1 He Campion of Conftantinople hath fundryyp- | right ftalks,two cubits highand ful of ioyft ES 4 certaine roughneffe ; and at euery ioynt wvolage leaues,o fa browne greene colour, Thefloures §} thetop like Sweet-Williams,or rather like Dan oy olets,of the colourof red lead, or Orenge tawny The Toot is fomewhat fharpe in tafte. es + There are diuers varieties of this, as with and bluth coloured floures,as alfo a double kine verylarge, double andbeautiful floures ofa Vem colour like as the fingle one here defcribed . 7 x a ThePlace. “ale The floure of Conftantinopleis planted in 9# dens , ands very common almot eueric : # Thewhite and bluth fingle, and thed are moterare,and not to be found but in theG our primeFlorifts, = ith { d. The toot is lon g and threddy, h -dent in ftalkes, leaues,o rfathion of the ne Houres ofthis plant are ofa milke @ The Time. Tt floureth in Tune it is planted , and s very Knotty and woolly ,andat eueoly foft leaues like Mullei ne, but leffer, and €top of the flalke, ofa perf ect red colour; July tie 468 many yeares aiter 5 “ of Srowing differs not from the former, burt cd of fome three or foure rankes or orders of @ The |