Lib. 



Oftl 



1 



Hiftorie of Plant?* 



4*P 



Thomy Stockc 



I 

 I 



This kinde of Stockc Gillo floure that 

 beareth floures of the colour of a Violet, 

 that is to fay of a blew tending to a pur- 

 ple colour, which fetteth forth the diffe- 

 rence betvvecne this plant and the other 

 ftocke GilloflourcSjin eticry other refpeft 

 is like the precedent. 



$ 2 There were formerly three figures 

 of the fingle Stockes^ which differ in no- 

 thing but the colour of their floures ; 

 wherefore wee haue made them content 

 with one, and haue giuen (which was for- 

 merly wanting) a figure of the double 

 Stockof which there are many and pretty 

 varieties kept in the Garden of my kindc 

 friend M after Ralph Tuggyc at We/lmin- 

 fter, and fet forth in the bookes of fiich as 



purpofely treat of floures and their varie- 

 ties. 



3 To thefe I thinks it not amifle to • 



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Jpivofu 



Creticum. It growes fome foot or more 

 high, bringing forth many ftalkes which 

 are of a grayiflj colour, and armed at the 

 top with many and ftrong thorny prickles: 

 the leaues which adorne thefe ftalkes are 

 like thofeof the ftocke GilIouer,yet Iefle 

 and fomewhat hoary ; the floures are like 

 thofe of Mulleine 3 of a vvhitifli yellow co. 



* the floures 



^containing a little feed in them. They vfe, faith Henoritu Befa, to heat ouens therewith in 



Candy,whercic plentifully growes - and by reafon of the fimili 

 haue with Statk and the white colour>they call it Gala StivUa s o 

 yceldsmiIke,whichG4/4fignifies. ± 



tude which the prickles hereof 

 Galajiividi y and not becau/e ic 





I 2 



<J[ The Place. 



fe kindes of Stocke Gillofloures do grow in mod Gardens throush 



^J The Time. 



They floure in the beginning of the Spring,and continue flouring all the Summer long. 



Gillo floure 



^ Thc<Nj 





floure T **" : m Ef * Il(h ' St ° cke GilIofloure,Gamfey Violet, and Caftle Gillo- 



% The Temperature and rertucs* . - 



in p\ h y1cke rC C xceot amonaft ™ aI : flou Mthough in vcrtue much inferiour -yet are they not vfed 

 whichfotmoScSl C 6 Em P ericks and Quackfaluers, about loneandluft matters, 



^^i±Sum^^^ * C ,° nferuc madc ° rchc floures of Stocke Gi «ofioure,and of. 

 B dittUled water thereof,preferueth from t he Apoplexie, and helpeth the palfie. 



A 



B 



HAP. Hi, 



Of Sea Stocke (jillo-floures. 



«g The Kindes. 



P Stock 



r feri ng « wclib^I!! *? grov,r neere VDt0 the Sea there ^>ee diners and fundry forts, dif- 

 k*i Dg% * -«W«*«« as floures, which rtull bee comprehended in this Chapter next /of- 





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