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Show The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, {be Garden of pleafant Flowers. oeee very great, but full of ftrings, {ticking tothe inward pu Ipe the roote is not frofts. quickly perifheth with the firft CHarEXX xix. Stramoninm mins flore geminato parpurante. Tabacco. Indian Henbane,or Tabacco. Inthe flowerof this plant, confifteth the chiefeft difference from the former,which s, Ts hath beerie formietly- butthrée kindes of Tabacco knowne yntovs, two ofthem called Indian, and the third Englith Tabacco. In thefe lateryeares,we haire had in our gardens about London(before the fupprefling of the planting) The {mall double dowred purple Thorne- Apple. and beareth twoflower isas large asthe laft , pointed into more hornes or corners, other Ike vato {tandingin one huske, one ofthem rifing out fromthe middle of the before defctis hofe, in Hofe or double, called Oxclips, and s Cowflip of thofe kindes the bed, which are of a pale purplifh colour on the outfide, and almoft white within it bein flowey, fruit is round like the laft , and beareth fuch like feede, fothatvntill laft, although their difference can hardly bee difcerned : this is more tender thenthe vs. euenit is fo render, that ic {eldome beareth ripe feede with willhaueas it were double flower the kind) another not is it think I Flore duplicie es(for Sometim rowes ofleaues,clofe fettogether , and not confifting of two, rifing fo diftindly one aboue another. ThePlace. Alithefekindes haue been broughtor fent vs out of Turkic and Egypt; but Garcias,and Chriftopherus Acofta,with others, affirmethatthey grow in the Eaft Indies. Theleffer kindesare veryrare withvs, becaufe they {el domecometo maturity ; and therefore weareftill to feeke of new {eedeto fowe. Thegreater kindes are plentifull enough in our Gardens, andvill wellabidesandgiue ripe fruit. . The Time. The fmialler kindes flower later then the greater sand therefore thet fruit arethefooner {poiled with the cold ayres, dewes , and ftofts, that omeatthe latter end ofthe yeare : but the greater kinds aeuermiffelight!) to-ripen. | { The Names. Both the greaterand fmaller kindes are generally called Stramonise, Stramionia, Pomum fpinefwm, and Datars. Bauhinus vpon Matthiolushis Comentaries on Diofcorides, calleth it Selanwm fetidum /pinifam. Some learned menhaue referred itto Wax AZetel, of the Arabian Authors. Wee call them generally in Englifh, Thorne-Apples, anddiftinguifhthem Pt theirtitles ofgreater andleffer,fingle and double. The Vertues. The Eaft Indian lafciuious womien performeftrange acts with the feedth thefmallerkinde, as 1 fuppofe, orit may be ofeither) giuitig it cheir il bandsto drinke. The wholeplant, but efpecially the feed, is ofa veryfo and foporiferous quality,procuringfleepand diftraction offenles. ofthe feeds fteeped and giuerin drinke,will caufe them that take it to 1 ftarke dranke or dead drunke3 whichfit will within afew houresWo" way, and theyrecouer their fenfes againe, as.a drunken manrayled@ fleep from his wine. It may therefore (in my opinion) be offafe and gov vfe to one,that isto hauea legge oranarmecut off,orto be cut for thie {tol orfomeotherfich like cureto be performed,totake away the feate of po forthetimeof doing it ; otherwife holdit not fit to be ¥fed_without$ caution, Butthe greene leauesof thegreater kindes (as alfodfthe left, that with vs they are not fo plentifull)-are by tryed expericnee;to oad aw2y any excellent goodfor any {calded or burned part, as alfototake waxe, inflammations, being madevpinte a falue or ointment withfuct, roflin, &c, or with Axangia, that is, Hogs larde. Cis® three or fourt otherforts acthe leat, and all of the Indian kindc, hauing fome efpeci- , all difference, cythcrin leafe,or ower, or both : And inregardthe flowersof fome of thefe carry a pretty fhew,| (hall only entreate ofthem,and notof the Englith kind. Tabaccolatifolium, Broade leafed Tabacco. The gréat Indian Tabacco*hath many very large, long, thicke, fatand faire greene leaues, ftanding foreright for the mot part,and compafling the ftalkesat the borrome ofthem; being fomewhat pointed atthe end: ithe ftalke isgreene and round, fixe or feuen foote highatfometimes, andin fomeplacess, in others not paft three or foure foote high, diuidedtowards the roppeinto,many branches,with leaues at euery ioynt, and at tlietdppes of the, branches many flowers, the bottomes hereof are long and are hollow, and the toppesplaited or folded before they areopen, butbeingopen, diuided fomctimesinto foure, or moreyfually into fiue corners, fomewhatlike vnto other of the Bell-Aowers, but lying alittle farteropen, of a light carnation colour. The fedeis very fmall and browne, containedin round heads,that are clammy while they are greene,and pointed attheend: the roote is great, whitifh, and woodyatthe licad, difperfing many long branches, anid fimall fibres vnderthe ground, wherebyitis left abroad ftronely fattened, but petifheth with our violent frofts in the winter,ifitbe rootes inthe garden, but if: it be houfed, orfafely prouided for againft the froftes,the afrefhthenextyeare; (pring will ltuejand long as the former, Theteis ofthis kinde another fort,whofe teaues areas largeand butthicker, atid of amore dead greene colour, hanging downe tothe ground-ward, : the and fcarce anyftanding forth-right,as the former, valeffethey: beeveryyoung flowers ofthiskinde arealmoft whole,without any greatfhew ofcdrnersatthe brims oredges;in’all other things thete isno difference. at the Thereis another, whofe largeand thicke fat leaues doe compaffetheftalke ofa flowersare boromie; and are as it were folded together one fide vnto another: the corners:thenin any of deeper bluth,ot carfiation colour, and withlenger points and and is the forinér¢ and inthefé twothings confifteth the difference fromthe others, called Verines Tabacco. chefe hauefhort footeAnother hatlvhis leaues not fo large and long as the firft, and as the other doe : the ftalke compatfethe not doe and ftand, they ftalkes, hereon flower hereofis like the firft,but fmallerjand ofa little paler colour. Tabacco angufrifolinm. Narrowleafed Tabacco. ftalkes; then any of the brhis kinde of Tabacco hath fomewhat lower, and (malletnotalcogetherfothicke, and’ er, narrow nd ller'a former = the’leaues hereof are{ma a footftalke,an inchand a halfe long but tote pointed, andeuery one ftanding vpon , vpon the {mall branches,fome¢s together icker ftandth ereof fowersh ‘the : t atthelea corners then:inany the for inent oreem and colour, whatlager, of a deeper bluth be brought into mets the {eed and roots arealike, atid perifhintike manner, vnileffe it Waater che of tic extrenti the from it defend to couert, fuch atellar, gr other The Place. America orthe Weft Tiidies is the place whereall thefekindes doe grow Peru, Trinidado, naturally, fdmejn ahe place, and fonic in another, asin Hifpani- Hh z |