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Show The Garden of pleasant Flowers: The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, The Place. The Vertues, Allthefe, and the reftbe found wilde in diuers Countreyes,as France Spaine, Italie, &c. but wee onely cherifh themin our Gardens forour ge light. The properties hereof, no doubt, may well bee referredto the fingle kinde; beeing of the fame qualitie, yet as I'take it,a litthe more mildean d ‘ i temperate. The Time. They flowerinthe end of Tune, and in lily, orthereabouts. Cuar-LVIL Partheniumflorepleno.. Double Featherfew. Theyare'called Melanthiam,cith, and. Nigella, and of fome FlisDin Sa SS The Namies. Catherine. We mayeither callthem Nigel according to the Latine name, or the Fenell flower, asfome doe; becatifethe double blew Nigella hath fmall Fenell-like leaues bearing vp the fower, as I fhewed beforein the de. {cription. The Vertues. Thefe Nigella’s are nothing fo hotin qualitie as the fingle Romanekind is, as may well be knowne by the fmell ofthe feede thereof, and therefore are not fit to be vfed in the fteedof it,as: many ignorant perfons v{cto doe: ~ forthe fingle R omanefeedeis vfed to helpépaines,and cold diftillationsin the head,and to dry vp therheume.: Pena faith,that the preffed oyleofthe feede as well taken inwardly as vfed outwardly is an excellent remedyfot the hardneffe and fwelling of the fpleene. Preecaino that beareth-donble flowersiis fo like vntothe finglekinde, that oe one cannotbe difcernedfrom theother, vntill it come to ower, hearing broadj pale or fefhigreene leaues; much cutinon the fides : the ftalkes hau¢ fuch-like ieaues onthem as grow below, fromthe toppes whereof .comefotth many double white flowers, like vnto the-flowers. of theformer wilde Pelletory, butlargenjand like alfo vntothe flowers of the double'Camomill :.thefent whereof isas ttrong’as of the fingle. a ThePlace. Wehauethis kinde only in Gardens, and.as it isthought by others, is pe» culiar only to our ewne Countreys _ TheTime. Itfowreth in the end of May,andinIuneandluly. | Curae. LVE The Names. It iscalled diuerfly by diuers :Somethinkeitto be Partheniam of Dio- Prarmicafiluefiris florepleno. Double wilde Pelletory. T=: double wilde Pelletorie hath ftraight and flenderftalkes, befet with long and narrow Icaues,{nipt roundabout the edges, :in all pointslike ynto thei gle wilde kinde, that groweth commonwithys almoft euery where : onthe toppesofthe ftalkes ftand foureor fiue, or more white flowers, one aboueanothe, with a gteene leafe at the bottome oft the -focteftalke of euiery. one of them, beeing fmall, thicke, andvery double, with alittle yellowifhneffe in the middle of euety flower, like both for forme and colour ynto the fower of the double Featherfew, but {maller : the rootes are many longftrings, running here andthereinthe ground: this hath no {mell atall, but is delightfome only for the double white flowers, The Place. {corides,but not of Galen; forhis Partheminzs is a fweet herbe,and is though to bee \_Amaracus, thatis Marierome .;> others call it A¢atricaria ; and {ome Amarella, Gazatranflateth it 44uralegm,. Theoph.tib.7. cap.7. Itis generally in thefe parts of our Country called Double Feaverfew, or Featherfew. The Vertues. Itis anfwerable to all the properties of the fingle kinde-which is vfed for womensdifeafes, to procure their monthly courfes chiefly, Itis held to bee a fpeciall remedyto helpe thofethat haye taken Opinmstao liberally; In Italy fome vie to cate the fingle kinde among other greene herbes, as Carmerariusfaith, but efpecially tryed with egges, and foit wholly lofeth his ftrong and bitter tafte. Itis only cherifhed in fome few Gardens, foritis very rare. The Time. Cuar. LVEII. Tt fowreth in the end of Iune or thereabouts. Chameuselum, Camomill. The Names. Ttis called of moft Prermica;or Sternutamentoria, of his qualitie to pte uoke necting; and of fome Pyrethram) of ‘the Kotbiting tafte. We viually call it Doublewilde Pelletoric,and fomeSneefewort, bur Ellebor ees alr 8 viually fo calledjand I would nortwo things fhould be called by one name forthe miftaking and mif-ufing of/them, The Vr ordinary Camomill is well knowneto all, to haue many fmal trayling branches, {et with very fine {mal teaues, buthing and {preading thicke ouer the ground, taking rooteftillasit (preadeth: thetoppes of rhe branches haue white flowers, with yellow thrummies in the middle,yery like vnto the Featherfew, before defcribed, but fomewhatgreater, not fo hard, but more foft and gentle in andlingand the whole herbe tobe of avery {weet fent. Bb 2.Cha- |