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Show The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. Verbafeum xigram, as any one but meanely the fe isa Andalthongh Plinie faith, that Moths doe rr quently haunt where Blattari« either groweth, or islaid, yet it isnotob. ferued fufficiently in our Country fotodoe, notwithftanding the nameof Moth Mullein is generally giuenthem. The laft is generally called with vs Laniums Pannonicuns, butcertaincly it is the Galeofis maxima Pannonics of Clufius. The Vertues. g Cie: — I aefound hath been allotted vnto the Blattarigor oth Mullein, then thofe of Plinic,to engender Moths, W thefe plants inPhyficke in thefe daies. . a Cuar. XCIX. Valeriava, Valerian. T= manyforts of Valetian (or Set-wall as many doecall them) arefitterfora generall worke, ora generall Phyficall Garden of Simples, thenthis of de. lightfull fowers. I will therefore felect outa few, Wanhyor theplace, and , offer them to your confiderations. 1.Valeriaua rabra Dedonei. Red Valerian. This Valerian hath divers hard but brittle whitith greene ftalkes rifing fromthe roote,full oftuberousorfelling ioynts, whereat ftand two leaues on eachfideone, and now andthen fome{mall leaues from betweene them , which ate fomewhat long and narrow , broadeft inthe middle,and {mall at both ends, withoutcither divifion or incifure onthe edges of a palegreenecolour : the ftalkes are branched atthetop into diuers parts, at theends whereof ftand many flowers together as it were inal vmbell ortuft, fomewhat likeyntothe flowers of our ordinary Valerian, but with longer neckes,and ofa fine red coleur, very pleafant to behold. but of no fent of any Valerian : afterthefe flowers haue ftood blownea very great while they fodainely fallaway , and the feedeis tipevery quickly after, whichis whitith 5 ftanding vpoa the branches naked, asthe Valerians doe, and verylike vntothem wich a little white doune at the end of euery one of them, whereby they are foone carried away with the winde : the rooteis great, thicke, and white, continuing long, and fhooting out new branches euery yeare, and {melling fomewhatlike a Valcrian, , 2. Navdus Moutans toberefe. Knobbed Mountaine Valerian. This kindeof Valerian or Spiknard, if you will focalli i anes lying onthe ground,withoutany diuifion in bake atall, being Geecativast ere colour, which fo abide all the winter; but thofe that {pring vp after and whenitm neth vpto flower, are cut in on the edges, very like vnto the iagged leaues of thegrett garden Valerian, and fothe elderthey grow, the more cutand iagged they are ¢ © ftalke and flowers are vety likethe ftalke with flowers of the garden Valerian, but ofa darke or deepe red colour, and more ftoreof them thruft together, -by doublet umberalmoft : the feedeis like the feede ofthe great Valerian : the rootis tuberous atna sie! round about, aboue and belowalfo, with fome fibres fhoo , hereby it.isencreafe j the roote: oftheg ardes Sellimecoot eae — {nelleth very like in with a purple flower. 3 Verbafinms Malle: 2 Blastaria | flare purpareo Moth /aleriana Graca t Blattaria flere albo Moth Mullein with a white flower. n Dodene!. Red Valerian. 6 jopis, Ethiopia Mullem, § Valersana ruvra le Cuckowe flower or Ladies fmocks, qxerinm Mattioli. French Sage. 4tb frore plans. Dovb mne Carda @ Gretk Valerian, 7 Lemixm Pannen. Hungary dead Newtle. Kk 2 |