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Show 596 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. Lin..2. It growes naturally on diuers places of the Alpes. Gefner called it cat ufens fi ordi Mufcofus - and Clafins, Caryo hy lus pumilio Alpinus 9. 9 t : TheTime. : This leafe-lefle Pinke (as the Grecke word doth feeme to import) hath many final] rufhy or benty leaues rifing immediately froma toughrufhy root :among which rifevp ftalkes like ei ruthes, ofa {pan high, without any ioyntat all, but {mooth and plaine ; on the top whereofor, etha {mall floure of a blewifhorsky colour, confifting of foure little leaues fomewhat iagged a the edges, not vnlike thofe ofwilde flax. Thewhole plant is very bitter, and ofa hor tafe. = 10 The white mountaine Pinke hath a great thicke and wooddy root ; from the whichimme diately rife vp very many f{malland narrowleaues, finer and leffer than graffe, nor valike Bs the fmalleft ruth : among whichrife vp little tender ftalkes,ioynted or kneedbycertaine diftances et withthe like leaues cuen to the top bycouples, one oppofite againft another : at the top w Lecol growpretty fiveet fmelling floures compoled offiue little white leaues. The {ced is {all and blackith. Bes. 1r There is awilde creeping Pinke which growethin our paftures neere about London, a in otherplaces, but efpecially in the great field next to Detford, by the path fideas yougoe fon Redriffe to Greenwich; which hath many fimall tender leaues fhorter than anyoftheother Pinkés, fetvponlittle tender ftalkes which lie flatvpon the ground, taking holdofthe Gmei fundryplaces, whereby it greatly encreafeth ; whereupon growlittle reddith foures, Theron fal], tough, and long lafting. : 12 This Virgin-like Pinke is like vnto the reftof thegarden Pinkes in ftalkes, leaues, an roots. The floures are of a bluth colour, whereofittooke his name, which theweththe diffeteice from the other. + Thiswhofe figure I giue youfor that {mall leaued one that was formerlyin this place, bat They floure with the Cloue Gillofloute, and often after, q The Names. 2 Stattice : ofFuchfius and a yor The Pinke is called ofPliny and Turner, Cantabrica and : in French, Se Oi ve Superba Fuchfius, and ofLobelius : wicaaltera,and Vetonica altilis : in Eng)ifh, Pinkes,and Sma Clams Spanith, in : Garosé and Garofol7, violettes herbues : in Italian, Honefties. The Temperature. Gillofloutes. The temperature ofthe Pinkesis referred vnto the Cloue pare : q] The Vertues. and Noire, aE aot Garlands vfein their for efteemed but Phyficke, in vfed not are Thefe colour, as - oe a. Ry are goodtobe putinto Vineger, to giue ita pleafant tafte andgallant plague;and that‘ e ~ ofthe infection the againft commended are Fuchfins {aith,that the roots to cure them that likewife and forth: driveit to and ftone, thereofis profitable towafte awaythe haue the falling fickneffe. Cuar. 184. 1 Armeria alba. Of Sweet SaintFobns and Sweet Williams. 2 Armeriaalba cy rubra multiplex. Double white and red Iohns, Whiter Tei Iohns. flender ftalkes fome {pannehigh, fet with two long narrowhard fharpe pointed Jeaues at each ioynt. Thefloures (which grow commonlybut one onaftalke) confift of fiuelittle fhiptle ofalight purple colour, rough,and deeper coloured about their middles, with twolittleer threds orhornes: the feedis chaffie and blacke : the root long , and creeping : it floures in Apmill and May,andis the Flos caryophyliews(ylucftris tof Clufins. i 13 Clufius mentionsalfo another whofe ftalkes are fome three inches hich :the leaue } der, fofter, and greener than the former: the floures alfo that growvpon the top of the ftalkes are larger thane he former, and alfo confit of fiue leaues ofa deeper purple than the former, with lon ger haires finely intermixt with purple and white. : a SegSiccaomdeeiy yrget fends vp fuch ftalks as the former, whichare feta the fting of fine muchdivided aise ‘ ihauingtwo or threds a ee cine floures ale white,fweet-fn ce §0 1 aucs, or hornes in their middle.It floures i May and it isthe Caryophyllus (ylueftris quintus of Clufins. 7 branchestrailing vpon th le ground RARessessemr aePinke, but of anold hoary cox garden ling t to whiteneffe,as oft rel "Efea anePlants. hheetrde: ° éateee reThe floures growat the top of 7 the: alks indfhapfe xen itch-wort, and ofawhitith colour, Neither thefeeds nor feed-veffels haue lays obferued : the rootis tough andfingle, eects ete vet i found growing in ploughedfields, aemer oe ties Sous which ky . oe me oot —— {pred vpon the ground oA kee ere ° Steet diieenoe, Ben. k Ee sof the height of a foot, fet with the likeleanes dy 7 : 1oures growat the top manytogether, in manner of te Willilam, ofa ae or fometimes : 5 a white, a light red colour. The root is fmal!, tough,andlor +Pa k, This is isak isakicind men inde of of Gra Grame , Lencanthemum , or Holoften . f m Ruel, defcribed in the 38. Chag KC, i . 17 Clufiusm =ake sthis a Lychnis : and Lobel(whom I here follow)a Pinke,calling it © minimus humili many branches edheeerie Som. This from creeping roots fendeth vp cus ivynt : the floures whi - ag Sa etter high, fet with two long narrowgreene leat of Biceing oe on on the tops of thebranches are ofa pleafing white coloune re sethleWiese. After the floures are gone there fucceed round tu of the other Pinks. This cous or clatuipiave tie blackith flat feed like toorthat Catch-flies. Clufius makes fritdicias, © € likeas that of the Mufcipula’s Zo @ The Place, Thefe kindes of Pinkes do grow for the moft part in gardens,and likewife many other ae Tet WICH we re Ouer long tow 4 riter ofparticularly. Thofe that bewilde doe growvpon mount ftony rockes,and defart pl : aces. The teft are{pecifiedin their defcriptions. The Defcription. Weet Iohns haue round ftalkes as haue the Gillofloures, (whereof they are a kinde) 4 cubit high, whereupon dogrowlong leaues broader than thofe of the Gillofloure, ofa greenegraffie colour: the floures growat the topoftheftalkes,very like vnto Pinks, hite colour. fecond differeth not fromthe other but in that,that this plant hathred floures,and the Ddd 3 We |