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Show 4 ox: The Garden of pleafant Flowers, 7 The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. are full ripe,are to be feen an innumerable company of white {ced ,ftandingout amone the fhort chrums, and do theneafily fall away with alittle touching ,cnery aneofthele white fee d hath as it were an holc halfe bored through therin: the rootis a great buthof firings, {preading inthe ground; wherebyitis ftrongly fattened, yet perifheth cuery yeare,after it hath giucnhis feede. The Place. All thefe plants growein the Eafterne Countries, as Perfia, Syria, Ate bia, &c. except the greateft, which hath been broughtout of the Wetthh. dies, whereit is much vfed , efpecially the feede : they are all, exceptir, nourfed vp with much care in our Gardens, and yct in a backward orcold yearethey will notthriue,for that they defire muchheate: but the greatel doth alwayesgiuc ripe {eede eucry yeare. The Time. They bearetheir gallant tuftsor {pikes for the moft part in Auguft, and fome not vatill September. The Names, The name Awaranthas is giuento all thefe plants; taken fromshe Greek word cuaesnvG, on marce/cens, or non fencfcens, that is, neucr waxing old, andis often alfo impofcd on otherplants, who haue the fame property,that is, thattheir towers being gathered ina fit feafon, will retaine their native colour a long time,as fhall be fhewed in the Chapter following, ‘Diners do thinke the firftto be Phlox, or Flamama of Theophraftus. The rhirdis called Gelofia, or Celofia of Tragus. Spigelius in his //agoges {faith , itisgenerally taken to be Sephenis, whereof Plinie maketh mention ; and Lobel to bee the Perfians T4eombroron ofPlinic. Theltalians, from wbom hadit (by themeanes of M?. DoGorIohn More, as I haue had many other rare fim ples) call ic, Blite dé tré colori, A three. coloured Blites:.; Fhe fifth, which the greateft,hath been fent from the Welt Indies by the nanic of Quins as Clufius reporteth. The name Flower-gentlein Englifh, and Flotamut, which isthe French,of Flos amoris,atid Pe/fe veloars, as is before faid, Veluet flower, according to the Italian, Frér ve/uto, are equally iginentoal ie plants » with their feuerall diftin@ions, as they areexpreffedin thett titles. iv The Vertues. Diuers fuppofethe flowers of thefe plants doe helpeto ftay the lust of -bloud in manor woman, becanfethat ther things thatare red ot Pur ple doe performe the fame. But Galen dif}proueth thacopinion very Nie tably,in /ib.2.c 4. de fimpl. medicament, facultatibue,: St Cuar,XCilt. T Helichryfisras, fine Ameavanthyws latetss, Golden Flower-gentle, Goldilockes, or Gold-fAlower. He propinquity ofproperty.(asI before faid) hath caufedthe affinity in.oa™) and foin neighbourhoodin thefe plants, wherein there arefome diuerfity™ althoughthey differ from them before in many notable paints, yet they . @tcewith chemfelucsia the golden,or filucr heads or tufts they beare; and hereti> . ge The leter parple Flower & Amaraschgs parpurems maior The Wieder. Var.able Flower-gentle 2rci An Pidlinmmestacum, Cats forte. Guaphalim erefoom. feeme Golden Cafidonie. 7 Helischryfam £0 ( lower gearle (renseum. Candy Goldilockes. 8 G The Coston Rok, grace (pies, Carnation f crisamem, Liuslong 0 |