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Si Paft> I 1 '" 6 fo . 1Iow flat and rough huskes of awhitirti colour, in mape likeTitrtelTrT^ 

 bucklers, wherein is contained fiat feed like to the feeds of ftocke Gillofloures but to J 8 *?? 

 whole huske is of the fame fubftance/amio^and colour that thofe are of the white Safin ^ 



H The Place. 



I neie plants arc fovvnc now and then in gardens, efpecially for the rarenelTe of tl 

 being brought out of Spain and ItaIy,from whence I receiued fome for my garden. 



i n i n IF The Time. 



They floure and flourifh in May,the feed is ripe in Auguft the fecond yeare after their fo» i 



% The Names. §• 



Madvvort or Moonvvort iscalled ofthe Grecians **,«**: of the Latines^/v/W . in Fno 

 l^^Madvvort^nd of fome,HeaIe-dog , and it hath the name thereof, becau&i* a L r " g * 

 remedie for them that are bitten of a mad dog,as Galen writeth,/,*. 2 . de Amtdotis, in Intel r ? 

 hiscom P ofuiondefcribingitinthefewords ; Madwort is an herbe very like toHoreCnd^ 

 rougher,and more full of prickles about the floures ; it beareth a floure tending to blew ' "' 



fcoridis 5 Gejher names it Lttnaria ajp 



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^ The Temperature andvertues. 



Galen faith it is giuen vnto fuch as are imaged by the biting of a mad dogge, which thereby are 

 perfeaiy cured, as rs knowne by experience, without any artificial! application or methTd a t a ' 

 The which experiment if any fhall proue,he (hall find in theworking thereof,it is of temperature 

 meanly dr^digefteth.and fomthing fcoureth withall : for this caufe it taketh away the mc " 

 and fun-burning.as the fame Author affirmes. 



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»S ki»d«dhc r «f™r! t,y fiSMr<d In thC feC ° nd P Uee ' bein S a kinde » f «W* I h»«ch«rc omic«ed,th« r»ay giucyou i, more H,ly among th««« of*. 



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hap. 12,5. Of%ofe Campion. 



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Lychnis Cbalcedonica. 



Floure of Conftantinople 



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% The Kindes. 



Here be diuers forts of Rofe Campions , fomc of 

 the garden,and others of the field, the which iTiali 

 be dimded into feueral chapters j and firft of the Cam- 

 pion of Conftantinople. 



^[ The Description* 



He Campion of Conftantinople hath fundry yp- 

 right ftalks two cubits high & full of joints,with 

 a certain roughneiTe, and ateuery joint two large 

 leaues of a brown green colour. The flours grow at the 

 top like fweet- Williams or rather like dames Violet, 

 of the colour of red lead or orenge- tawny. The root i$ 

 fomewhat fharpe in tafte. 



$ There arc diuers varieties of this, as with white 

 and blufli coloured floures,as alfo a double kinJewitb 

 very large double and beautifull floures of a Vermis 

 on colour like as the Angle one here defcribed. $ 



qi The Place. 



The floure of Conftantinople is planted in gar«n$ 

 and is very common almoft euery where. 



$ The white and blufh fingle and the doubie or* 

 are more rare,and not to be found but in the gardens 

 our prime Florifts. $ 



•J The Time. , 



It floureth in Iune ond Iuly , the fecond ycarcaa 

 it is planted, and many yeares after 5 for it conIt ^ r00r 



