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Show The Garden ofpleafant Homers. The Garden of pleafant Flowers. s OO eaeeeie. ac withthe any dayes together, tohelpe themthat are troubled i th herbe and rootein ofbo ee ie he viet l Ce s eyc ee Gan s of {wounings,which the wine, withalittle Ambargrife, againft thofe kind utti- ,and other ob@tr Greekes call euraute: The feedeis vfed for the iaundife us Rapard, ce of Francifc ons of theliver. Clufuswriteth from the experien en and drunke achiefe Phyfician of Brugesin Flanders, that the feedeeabeat {peedy deliuerie, ocur is effetuall to womenin trauell of childe, topr betaken if the firft fucceede and aduifeth a fecond draught thereof fhould rhabatbsrum, by vealon that therootes being yellow,haue an Opening qualitie, and drying as Rubarbe. In Englith what other fit Namesto giuc thefe then I haueexpreffed in the titles, [know not. The Vertues. Theare alittle hovand diying withall, good for old Vicers,4s Diofcorides faith, tobring themto cicatrifing : in Iraly they ate vfed' agair.ft the Plague,and in Saxonyeagainit the laundife;as Cartiéraritis faith. notfufficiently. —<— Cuar XLVIITE Cuar. XLVI. Thalitrum Hifpanicum, Spanih Tufts, or Tufted Colombines. for thismy Rom amongthe dinerfities ofthis plant, I haue {elected out twop forts to be entreated uing g |the other E garden,as hauing more beautie thenall thereft;leauin inferted them,for of, where all in generall may be included., I haue in this place t, and ina Chapponden corref rt otherpa no in eing only,b thelikeneffe of the leaues terby themfelues, as it is moft fit. Thalidrum Hipanicam album. White Spanith tufted Colombines. Thefe plants hauc both one forme,in roote, leafe and flower, and therefore neede Colom but onedefcription. The leaues are both for colourand forme folike ynto bines leaues (although lefferand darker, yet more fpread, andon larger ftalkes) that they mayeafily deceiue one, that doth not marke them aduifedly , for the leauesat the ftalkesat much more diuided,and in {mallerparts,and notfo round atthe ends : three patts, or two into ng out branchi round, ftrong, and three footehighat theleaft, with leauesat the feuerallioynts of them, at thetoppes whereof ftand many flowets which are nothing but a numberofthreads, made like vnto a {mallroundtuft, break- ing out of a white skinne, or leafe, which inclofeth them, and being vnblowne, thew like vntolittlebuttons: the colour of theferhredsor tufts in this are whitifh withyel- low tipson them, and fomewhat purplithat the bottome,hauinga {trong but no go fent, and abiding in their beautie (efpecially if they grow in the thade, and. nottod hotinthe fun) a great while,and then fall away,like fhert downeorthreds: the feed veffels are three fquare, ‘containing {mall,long, and round feede; the reotes acm ny long yellow ftringes, which endure and encreafe much. Thalidtrum Montanumpurpwrewm. Purple tufted Colombines. This purpletufted Colombinediffereth onely from the former, in thavit isnot fo highnorfo large, and thatthe colour of the flower ortuft is of a blewith purple CO" lour with yellow tips, and is much morerare then theother. : Radix tana. Hollow roote. T= likeneffé of the Ieaues likewife of this plant with Colombines, hath caufed mee to infett it next the other, aad although fomieofthis kinde bee of finall refpeét, being accounted but foolifh, yet let ic fill vp a wafte corner; that fono place be vnfurnifhed. z 1. Radix Cana maior flore aloo. The white Hollow roote. The leaues of this hollow roote breake not out of the ground, vntill theend of March,or feldome before, and are both for proportion and colour fomewhatlike vntothe leaues of Colombines, dinided into fiuc parts, indented about theedges, ftanding on {mall long footeftalkes of a whitifh greene colour, among which rifevp the Ralkes, without any leaues from the bottome to the middle, where the flowers fhoote forth one aboue another,with euery one finial fhort leafeat the foote thereof,which arelong and hollow, with.a {purre behinde it, fomewhatlike vnto the flowers of Larckes {purres, but hauing their bellies fomwhat bigger, andthe mouthnotfo open, being all of a pure white colour: after the fowersare paft, arife {mall long andround cods, wherein are contained round blackifh feede: therooteis round and great; ofa yellowith browne colour on the outfide,and more yellowwithin, and hollow vndegneath, fo thatit {eemeth buta fhell: yet being broken,euery part will grow : it bidéth greene aboue ground but a {mall time. 3. Radix Cause maiorflere caruco. Bluth coloutd Hollowroote. The blufh Hollow rooteis in all things like vnto the formér, but onely that the flowers hereof are of adelayed red or purple cofour,which wecall blufh : and fometimes of a very deepe red or purple colour; but very rare to mete with, 3. Radix Cawa minor, few Capaosfabacta radice. Small hollow roote. This'fmall kinde hath his leaues of a blewifh greene colour, yet greener and frial- lerthenthe former, growing more thicke together : the flowersare like in proportion Vntothe formerin all refpects, but leffer, haning purplifh backes, and white bellyes ftanding clofer andthicker together vpon thé fort ftalkes : the rooteis folid or firme, The Place. round and alittle long withall, two being vfually ioyned together, yellowifh both Within and without: but I haue {eene the dry roots that came from beyond Seahither, Thefe growboth in Spaine andItalie. The Time. They fowerintheendof May, orin Iune, and fometimelater: The Names. that hawe beene as fmalias hafell nuts, and fomewhat flat with the roundteffe, diffeTing from thofe that growe’ with vs; ‘whether the nature theréof is to alter by Manuring, I know not. The Place. Some doe eallthem Thaltetram, and fome Thalifirum, Others Rat4 pala ot Pfu frie, and Rare pratenfis, and some Rhabarbar an Monachornt?, phabarbarm™ The greater kindes Clufius reporteth he founid'in many places ofHungarie; |