5po 



Of the Hiftorie of Plams. 



Lib. 2. 



Dffc 



I 



nc great carnation umo-floure bath a thick round w^jj,, r 



vp many ftrong joynted ft*lks fet mth long gr^S^ LT 1 , Wtlch " fcth 



ftaiks do grow very fair floures of an except C^^t^cl £ °P ° f lhc 



)fittooke his name. mcu >* na Pliant Carr^aonco. 



lour,whereof it tooke his name 



The Cioue Gillofloure differeth not from the Carnal™ k.,* : * 



i as Ieaues.The floure is exceeds well knnin! T."^ S? ^.V" 8 reatncfrc as »'*» »f the 



wherefore I will not ftand long vpon the defcription. 



$ Caryopby II m (imp [ex major 9 



The fingle Gillofloure or Pinke. 



% The place 



i 



rnati 



Thefe Gillofloures, efpecially the Ca.... w 



ons,are kept in pots from the extremitie of our 



cold Winters, The Clouc Gillofloure endu- 



reth better the cold,and therefore is planted in 

 gardens t 



The Time. 



They flourifo and floure moft part of the 



Summer. 



«f The Names. 



The Cloue Gillofloure is called of the later 

 Herbarifts Caryophylltus Flos , of the fmcllof 

 cloues wherewith it is pofTelTed.in Italian, C* 

 rofolf :in Spanittifilauel : in ¥Tencb % Oeiltttz : in 



Jow.Dutch,d5ino(feibloemen : in Latmcof 



Bam all 



j j — j — ,,„„___ w — „ j _ 



Barbaricadn Englifh, Carnations , and Clouc 

 Gillofloures. O f fome it is called Vcuniupnd 



Heria tunica. The which Bernardus Gordonius 



hath fet downe for Diofcoridcs bis tolcmwum. 

 That worthy Herbarift and learned Phyfiti- 



on 



A 



B 



Caryophyllus to be Camahica^which ?lin % lib. ly 



**/>• 8.wri tetb to haue been found out in Spaine 

 about Auguftus time, and that by thofc of Bit 

 cay. 



Iohannes Ruellius faith, That the Gillofloure 

 was vnknowne to the old writersavhofe judge- 

 ment is very good^efpccially becaufe this herb 

 is not like to that oiVctonicafit Cantabnc*. Icis 



.._.., maruell, faith he, that fuch a famous floure, fo 



plcafant & fweet,fhouId lie hid 3 andnot be made known by the old wrirers:which may be thought 

 not inferior to the rofe in beautie^fmel^and varietie. 



f The Temperature. 



The Gillofloure with the leaues and roots for the moft part arc tempcrat in heate and drmcfie 



^ TheVtrtues. . . 



The conferae made of the floures of the Cloue Gillofloure and fugar is exceeding cordial^ 

 wonderfully aboue meafure doth comfort the heart, being eatennow and then. , 



It preuaileth againft hot peftilentiall feuers, expelleth the poifon and fane of the dilcale , 

 greatly comforteth the ficke, as hath of late been found out by a learned Gentleman of Lee w 



M 





c 



HAP. 



183. 



Of Tinfaor mlde gillofloures, 





«g ThtVtpipion 



I 



fmall joynted ^ 



XHedouble purple Pinke hath maniegraflle leaues { f v P^ m XS double P »'P Ic 

 A couples , one oppofite againftanother, whereupondoe grow pleaiant av r^^ 



