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Show Tbe Gardemof pleafant Flowers. The Garden ofpleasant Flowers. {mall brownith feede ¢ therooteperifheth the fame yeareit beareth feede, for often, times it dowreth notthefirft yeare it is fowne. 11. Scorpioides mains co minus. Great and {mall Caterpillers. Vader one defcription I comprehend both thefe forts of Scorpions graffe,or Cater. pillers, ot, Wormes,as they are called by many, whereofthe greaterhath beenknown but oflate yeates ; and ioynethem to thefe pulfes, not hauing a fitter place whereto infertthem. It is buta {mall low plant, with branches lying vpon the ground, and fomewhatlong,broad, and hard leaues theron,among which comeforth-{mall ftalkes, earing atthe end forthe moft part,two {mall pale yellowith flowers,like vato Tares er Vetches, bur fmaller, which turne into writhed or crooked toughcods;in the grea. ter fort they are mach thicker, rounder and whiter, and leffer wound or turnedtoge. thertheninthefmaller, which are flenderer, more winding, yet not clofing like ynto the Snailes, and blacker more-like vato a Caterpiller then the other, wherein are contained brownithyellow feede, muchlike vntoa Jedica : the rootes of bothare {raall and fibrous, perifhing euery yeate. ThePlace. Thefe are found feuerally in diuers and {euerall places, but wee fowand plant them viually tofurnifh our gardens. The Vertues. The Medica’s are genetally thoughttofeede cattell fat much more then the MedowTrefoile, or Clauergraffe, and therefore I hauc knowndiners Gentlemen that haue plowed vp fome oftheir pafture grounds,anid fowen themwith the feedes of fomeMedica’s to makethe experience. All the other fortsarepleaforesto delight,the curious, and not any way profitable in Phyficke that know. aa Car. LXXX. Ponias Peonie. aE: Here are twoprincipall kindes of Peonie, that isto fay, the Male and the Female. Ofthe malekinde,.Lhaueonelynknown onefort, butof the Femalea great many; which arethusto be diftinguithed... Lhe Male hisleafe is whole, without any particular divifionynotch or dent onthe edge,& His rootes long & round, dinided into many branches, fomewhatlike tothe rootes of; Gentian or Elecampane, and net tuberousat all. The Femaleofall forts hath the leaues diuided or cut mon the edges,moreorleffe, and hath alwaiestuberous rootes, thatis,likeclogs or Afphodil rootes, with manlygreat thick round peeces hanging, or growing/at theend of {maller ; firings, and allioyned tothe roppe of the maine rootes..; ., The Time. = _ They doe all fower about themoneths of une and Tuly,andtheir feede istipe foone after : byt the fecondis earlier then the reft. "The Names. Thefirkt is called Clymsexum of Matthiolus, and Lathyris of Lobelandothers 2 but Lathyrés in Greekeis Cataputiain Latine, whichis ourSpurge, farre differing from this Pulfe, and therefore Zathyrms is more propett0 diftinguifh them afunder, that two plants fo farre valike fhould not bee called by onename: this is alfo called Lishyras latifelins, becanfethert is another called auga/tifolias, that differeth from it alfo : Itis moft viually called withvs, Pifamperenne, and in Englifh Peafe bloffome,or Peafeeuetlafting. The fecond is called by Glufius, Qrobus venetus, becaufeit was fent him froma Venice,with anotherof the famekinde that bore white fowetss yet differcth but little or nothing from that kindhe found in Hungary,that Ithinke the feuerall places of their growing on! y.canfethemto beare feuerall names, and to bethe famein deede. Although I yeeld vnto Clufiusthe Latinename which dothnotfufficiently contentmee 5 yet I haue thoug good to giue ita ditfering Englifhname; according ede isin thetitle. Tne third, becaufe I firft receiued it among other feeds from Spaine,] have giuea inthe nam e,asitis entituled.Thefourth is called:of {ome Sandalids Cretiesy oe Lotus fitiquolas lore rubella, Lotys ketragonolobus Pifuas rubram, OFifs quaaratum » Wewfually call itin Englifh, Crim fon Peafe,or {quare Pealts The Medica Cochleataiscalledof, Dodonzus Trifolium Cochleatum, burg indgedtobe thetiue Medice.. Weecall itinEnalifh, Medick fodder,sals Clauer, oras it isin thetitle, and fo the:reft of the Medica’saccordinglf The Hedy/aram clypeatnm, ox, Seckridecaiis called of Dodonzus Onelril® aiter'a, and.we in Englith forthe likeneffe,'The red Sattin Aower, althous® fome foolifhly, call it, the redjor French Honyfuckle,, Thelattis called by Lobel, Scorpisides buplewrifolio, Lhaue called it minus, because thegrex™ fort which came tome out of Spaine wasnotknownevate him: in Engl” they aregencrally called Caterpillers, : rhe Lie I fiz f 3 j 13 1, Paonia mats “The-MaléPeonies-} < The Male Peonierifeth vp with many brownith Ralkes, whereon doe grow winged Ieaues, thatis, many faire greene,and fometimesreddith |caues,one feragainit another ftand at vpona ftalke, without any particulardiuifion inthe leafe at all. z),.the flowers red the toppes of the ftalkes, confifting of fiueorfix broadeleaves, of a faire purplith after colour, with manyyellow threds in the middle; ftanding aboutthe head, which podslike rifeth to be the feede veffels, divided into tWo,three or foure roughcrooked g edge to anhornes, which when they. are ful ripe, openand.turn themfelues downon the other backeward,thewing within them divers round black fhining feede,which are hichare graines, crimion redor many alfo having d true feede, being full and good,an t lancke and idle, intermixed among the blacke, as.ifthey were good {eede, wherebyi ground, inthe eading long,{pr ickand great,th rootsare the fhew: pretty ery makethav and running downereafonable decpe. 2. Peonid famina onlgarisAare fimplics The ordinaryfingle Female Peonie, leanes onthem This ordinary Female Peonie hath many ftalkes,with more ftoreof or nickeddithen the Malekinde hath, the leauesalfo are notfo large, but diuided cursor diuiuerfly onthe edges, fome with greatand deepe, and others with finaller sareof a ftrong, headyfent, fions, and of a darke or dead greenecolour i+ the flower ending toa murrcy colour, purpler amore of e,'and themal then {maller moft vfually hath: theheads With yellow thrumes about the head inthe middle, as the male kinde ut leffe fhining: blacke,b is alfo feede the , or hornes with feed are like alfo but {maller faftened atthe clogs, tuberous fhort and icke manyth of faid, I as confift, the rootes fhort,and qand isghick which roote; the of head she from ,andall endsof long ftrings e male. tuberous alfo, ofthe fame or the like fent withth 3. Paonia femina culearis flore plemo rubro. The double red Peonie. 4) is fo frequent in cucric This double Peonie as well.as the: former fingle meft labour in vine inds.al that ey, Countr cucry through Garden of note, Ff 3 ; |