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Show The Gardenof plealant.Flowers. The Garden of ptcalant FloweS. difcoloured or {potted onthe outtide,the n the greaterkinde is. Thereis a lefler king then this, notdiffering in any thing from this, but thatitis leffer. 4. Lupinasfore latea, The yellow Lupine. The yellow Lupiric growethnor viually fo high, but with larger leaues then th finall blew Lupine ; the flowers grow in wvo orthreerundles or tufts, round abon yellow colour, like inf, the ftalke and the branches at the ioynts, of adelicate fine fhion vntothe other kindes, being larger then the laft, but nothing fo large as th greater kindes, and of afinefmall fent: the feedeisround, and notflat, butmtichs. bout the forme and bigneffe of the fmall blew, orfomewhat bigger, of a whitithc. leur on the outfide, {potted with many fpots. The Place. Thefirft groweth in many places of Greece, and the Eafterne Conintris beyond it, where1t hath beene ancientlycherifhed for their foode, being often wateredito take away the bitterneffe. Itgroweth alfo in thefe Welten parts, bucfill where it isplanted. Thegreat blew Lupine is thoughts come from’beyond the partsiof Perfia, in Caramania. Theleffer blewis found very plentifully wilde,in manyplaces both of Spaine andItaly/The taft hath beene broughtvs likewife out of Spaine, whereasit is thoughtit groweth naturally. They all grow now in the gardens of thofe,’ thatare curious louers of\thefe delights. The Timé They dowerin Summer,and their feedeis 1ipe quickly after, The Names. They are generally called Lupisi. Plautus in his time faith, they wett vied in Comedies in ftead of money, when in any Scene thereofthere was any fhew of payment, and therefore hecalleth them Aarwm Comic And Horacehaththis Verfe, Nec tamen ignerant, quid distent era Lupinis, to thew that counterfeit money (fuch as counters are with vs,or as thele Lik pines were yfed' in thofe times) was eafily knowne ftomtrue and curtatt coine. In Englith weevfually call them afterthe Latine name, Lupines; and fomeafter the Dutch name, Figge-beanes, becaufe they are flat an round as a Figge thatis preffed ; and fome Flat-beanes for the fame realom Somehaue called theyellow Lupine, Spanith Violets = but other foolilt names hauebeenegiuenit, as Virginia Rofes, and thelike, by knauith Gar diners and others, to deceiue men, and makethem beleeue they weretlie finders out, or great preferuers ofrarities, of no other purpofe, butt? cheate men of their money : as you would therefore auoyde knauesaa deceiuers, beware of thefe manner of people, whereof theskirts ofout towneare toopitifully peftered. The Vertues. Thefirft or ordinaryLupine doth {coureandcleanfethe skin from{p% morphew, blew markes, and other difcolourings thereof, beeing vied 5 ther ina decoétion or ponther. Wee feldome vie it ‘in inward medicins not that it isdangerous, butof negleé, forformerly it hath beene much vied forthe wormes, &c. 1.Lathy |