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Show The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 374 haue comprifed them in one Chapter,. and willbegin with that which commethney re(t vnto the Helichry/am of Diofcorides , or Awrelia (as Gazatranflateth it) of Theo, phraftus. 1. Heliechryfum. The Goldenfloweroflife. This firftt Goldentuft rifeth vp with manyhard, round, white ftalkes,a foote and, halfe high, whereonat certaine diftances ftand many fine cut leaues,or ratheronelee cut into many (mallfine parts, almoft asfmall as Fenell,but grayifh,like yntothe Gud. “weedes or Cotton-weedes (whereofcertainly thefe are {peciall kindes) at the Loppes ofthe ftalkesftand many round flowers, ofa pale goldcolour, in an vmbell-clofeto. gether, yet eucry flower vponhis owneftalke , andall ofan even height , whichwill keepe thecolour, being gathered, and kept dry for along timeafter, and are of ahot “and quickefent : the reoteis fmall and wooddy, {preading vnderthe vpper cruft of the earth’, afd liueth longin his owne naturall place, but very hardly endureth the cold ofour Winters,valeffethey be milde,or it be well defended, 2. Helichry[um Creticum. Candy Goldilockes. Candy Goldilockes hath two or three {mall flender white branches, fet here and there very {catteringly, withfall, long, and narrow hoary leaves, hauingyellow heads offlowersat the tops made into vmbelsortufts’, not fo round and even as the former, but longwife onc aboue another, the heads being made asit wereof {eales, loofly, and notfo clofely fet together, asin the next following, which whenthey ae fullripe, doe paffe into doune, and are blowne away with the winde, hauing a {mull reddith feedeat theend ; but will abide along time, as the other in his beauty, being gathered in time,as the reft will doe. 3. Helichry/um Orientale Sine Amaranthus luteus, Golden Flower-gentle. This moft beautifull plant is very likevato the former Candy Goldilockeslaftde {cribed,but growing vp higher,with many more branches, and more hoary, whitt and woolly, hauing alfo long and narrow white leaues, but fomewhat broader, amd thicker fet onthe branches : the tufts of fowers or vmbelslikewifedoe conlilt o longerandlarger heads, more fcaly,-and clofer compact together , of an excellet pale gold yellow colour, and fhining , with fome yellow threads or thrummesin the middle : the roote dyeth noteuery yeare,but liueth long, efpecially inthe South and Eaft Countries, where no colds or frofts arefelt ; but will require extraordinary a and keeping, and yet {carce fufficient to preferueit in thefe cold Countries. 4. Chryfocome fine Stechas Citrina, Golden tufts or Golden Caffidony. This Golden flower is fomewhatlike the formerofthefe two laft defcribed,haultf hoary ftalkes and leaues, (tanding confufedly on them, being long, and narrowerth®™ any ofthe former: the topsoftheftalkes are dinided into many parts, each bearing! {mall long yellow heador flowerat the toppe, with fome yellow thrummes in theth artic ae Be rut , are diffuledly fettogether, likealoofe or {parfed vb eeping their cet ti Bgches co iefore they wither, and whenthey are ripe, hane be be i i io like Mariorome{eede, but fmaller, the rooteis fmall and bla a osi plant,as well leaucs and flowers, as rootes , are ofa ftrong fharpe feat, }* 2 5. Argyrocome fine Czaphalium Americanum, Liue long or Life euerlafting. This filuer tuft or Indian Cotton weede, hath many white heads of leafesat thet firft {pringing out of theground, couered with a hoary woollineffelike cotton," rifing into hard,thicke round ftalkes, containe {till the fame hoarincfle vpon them alfo vpon the long and narrowleaucs which are fet thereon, efpecially 08 the i TheGarden of pleafant FloKers. fide, for thevpper fidesare ofa darke fhining greene colour : theftalkes arediuided at fee heads have: many f{caly" tufted cach whereof : theteppe into manyFi {mall branches, vor * 7 together, couered ouer with cotton before their opening, and then diffeuering one from another, abiding very white.on the outfide, when theyare fullygrowne, but witha{mall yellow thrume in the middeof cuery flower, whichin time turne into yellow doune,aptto be blowne awaywith cuery winde: the rootsare long and black on the outfide; creeping vnderground very:much. veel : 6. Guapbalium montenumlore albo Clorepurpured, White and purple Cats foote. This fmall Cudweede or Cottonweede, hath manyfmall white woolly leaues growing fromthe roote, which is compofed of a few fmall blackith threds,and lying vpon the ground fomewhat like vnte the leaues of afmall Moufe. eare, but fmaller ; from among whichrifeth vp a {mall ftalke of halfe a foote high or thereabouts, befet hereand there with fome few leaues, at the top whereof commethfortha tuft of {mall flowers, fet clofetogether, in fome of a pure white, in others of apurpleorreddifh anid purple mixt togecolour, iz fome of a pale red or bluth, and in others of a white ther, which for the beauty is much commended and defired, but will hardly abide to ' bekept in Gardens, fo vnwilling they areto leaue their naturall abiding. 7. Gnaphalium Rofeum. The Cotton Role. growing asthe Thislittle rofe Cotton weede hath many fuchlike woolly leaues, igh, in fa former fromthe roote vpon finall fhort branches,not fullan hand breadthh ; at the toppe of roundpointed fhion fomewhatlike vnto Dayficleaues, but leffer,and of fmall white euery ftalke or branch, ftandeth one flower, compofedof two rowes head leaues, layd open like a Starre ora Rofe,as it beareth the name, hauing around inthe middle made of manyyellow threds orthrumes, which falling away, therering and threddy. fethvpa (mail round head, full of fmall feedes : the rootis fmall,lo The Plate. The foure firft plants dee grownaturally in many of the hot Countries of Europe, as Spaine, Italic, and Prouince in France ;_ as alfo in Candy, Barbary,and other places, and mutt becarefully kept with vs in the winter time. The Liuelong was brought outef the Welt Indies, and groweth plentifully in our gardens... The twolaft doe grow as well in the colder Countriesof Germany,as in France and otherplaces. The Time. heir a i CK i r beauty 1 out their l thew theywil er,if theend of Septemb They all flowerin at all, colour faire no haue they atall with vs, for fometimesitis fo lae,that efpeciallythe foure firft forts. The Names. e foure Variable and many arethe namesthat feuerall Writers do callthef or Elichrylum. El; oc bryfums, firft forts of plants, as Helichry/am,Helochry/am, Aurelia,with Citrina,and Chryfocome, Coma aurea, Amaranthus luteus, Stoechas for this worke, to giue others, needlefle hereto.be recited : it is fufficient are exprefled ae you knowledge thattheir names are fufficient as they Clufius, from thelikenefle Carolus inmby Guaphal called fiftis The titles: faid be- white : forasI of the vmbels or tufts of heads, though greaterand tufts : I hat gan fore,the Cotton weedes are of kindred with the golden latting, : called byour Englifh Gentlewomen, Liuc long, and Lifecuer Thetwolaft are ~ beauties caufe of the durabilitie of the flowers in their liz ; rae |