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Oi the Hifbrie of Plants. 



IB. Z. 



$ 3 Lychnis Coronaria multiplex 



Double Rofc Campion. 



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% The Place. 



.The Rofe Campion groweth plentifully 

 moft gardens. * 



% The Time. 



They floure from Iune to the end of Auguft 



^[ The Names. 



The Rofe Campion is called in Latine.D**/- 



narum Rofa, MAriana Rofa, Call Rojk, Call fl ts . f 

 Diofcorides, \»y>\< rn«^w' ' that is, Ljdnu c 0rf . 

 naria oxfativa : Gaza tranflateth^ifc, LmtmL 



becaufe the Ieaues thereof be foft,& fit to mate 

 weeks for candles,according to the teftimony of 



Vtofcorides, it was called Lychnis or Lycfmides 



that is, a Torch or fuch like light, according to 

 the fignification of the word, cleere, bright, and 

 light-giuing floures : and therefore they were 

 called the Gardeners Delight, or the Gardeners 



Cl#t8e$ 



and oo/ftt Z)/># .-in high- 

 land ^tmmel toftlro 



fatten tof= 





«g The Nature. 



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The feed of Rofe Campion,faitb Galenas hot 

 and dry after a fort in the fecond degree. 



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«J The Femes. 



The feed drunk in wine is a remedy for them 

 that are flung with a fcorpion 3 as Diofcorides te- 

 ftifieth. 





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HAP. 





12,7 



Ofmlde%ofe Qampion 



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*j[ The Defer ipion. 



1 



He wild Rofe Campion hath many rough broad Ieaues fomewhat hoary and woolh 

 among which rife vp long foft and hairy ftalks branched into many armes/et with the 

 like leaues,but JeiTe. The floures grow at the top of the ftalks, compact of flue Ieaues 

 of a reddifli colour : the root is thicke and large,with fome threds anexed thereto. 



t There alfo growes commonly wilde with vs another of this kind with white floures, as alio 

 another that hath them of a light blufh color, t 



2 The fea Rofe Campion is a final herb,fet about with many green Ieaues from the lower par 

 vpward j which Ieaues are thicke,fomewhat lefler and narrower than the Ieaues of fea Purflane. 

 hath many crooked ftalks fpred vpon the ground a foot long, in the rpper part whereof there 1* 

 fmallyvhite floure infafhion andfliape likealittlecuporbox,afterthelikeneiTeof^W*** 

 Spatling Poppy,hauing within the faid floure little threds of a blacke colour, in tafte falt,yet n 

 vnpleafant. 



M r Tho.Hesket reported vnto me,that by the fea fide in Lancafliire from whence this plantcafflti 

 there is another fort hereof with red floures. - &il 



$ I This brings many ftalks from one root,round,long,and weaker than thofe of the nr 

 fcribed,Iying vfually vpon the ground : the Ieaues grow by couples at each joint,long,folr» «J ^ 

 ry 5 among which alcernatly grow the floures,about the bignefle of thofe of the flrft de fcriw r 

 of a blufh colour j and they are alfo fucceeded by fuch feed-velTelSjContaining a reddifli ieea. 

 root is thicke and fibrous,yet commonly outliues not the fecond yeare. 



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