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woort : the floures ftand at the top of the fpr ingy btanches forth oflongcupsor h u s k77iTf<v~ 

 of eight or ten fmall leaucs,yellow vnderneatb, on the vpper fide of a deeper yellow tendin ^ 

 colour of a darke crimfon veluet, as alfo foft in handling : but to defcribe the colour in w^J^ 

 is not poflible,but this way ; lay vpon paper with a penfill a yellow colour called Mafticot°i h } 1! 

 being dryjay the fame ouer with a little fafFron fteeped in water or wine,which fetteth forth 

 liuely the colour. The whole plant is of a moft ranke and vnwholefome fmell and n«;n, T ft 



4 Tlos'^iphricanu* minor fimfliclfii 



The fmall French Marigold. 



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They are cheriflied and fowne in gardens 

 uery yere : they grow euery where almoft in A 

 fncke of themfelue5,from whence wee firft bad 

 them, and that was when Charles the fifths m. 

 peror of Rome made a famous conqueft of Tu 

 nisjwhereupon it was called Flos ^bricanm,ot 

 Flos Tamtams. 



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 They arc to be fown in the beginning of A. 

 pril,if the feafon fallout to be warm,othenvife 

 they muft be fown in a bed of dung,as(tallbc 

 fliewed in the chapter of Cucumbers. They 

 bring forth their pleafant floures very late, and 

 therefore there isthemore diligenccto bevfed 

 to fow them very early, becaufe they dial I doc 

 be ouertaken with the froft before their feed be 





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The Africane or French Marigold is called 

 in Dutch, <Cf)tttM0 blOf ttlCtl J in high-Dutch, 



3[tlDtamfC^ncgeUn:thac is,the fiourc,or Gil- 

 lofloure of India.in Latin^Caryophyllus Indtcm\ 

 whereupon the French men call it 0* ///rf s ^ f- 



i&. CWjw ca 1 1 s i t Tanacetum Peruvianum, of tfc e 



JikenelTe the leaucs haue with Xanfa* aDcl ot 

 Peru a Prouince of America, from whence hec 

 thought it may be 5 it was firft brought into En- 

 xo^.Gefaer calleth it C alt ha Aphricana^nd faith that it is called in the Carthaginian tongue/'^* 

 fotne would haue it to be Petiliusflos plinij^ but not properly : for Petiliusflos is an Autumn floure 

 growing among briers and brambles. Andreas Lacunacalkth it Othonna, which is a certain berbc 

 of the Troglodytes,growing in that part of Arabia which lieth toward iEgypt, hauing leaucs full 

 of holes as though they wereeaten with mothts.Gale* in his firft booke of the faculties of Simple 

 medicines maketh mention of an berbe called Lycoperjicitm, the juice whereof a certain Centurion 





did 

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carrie out of Barbaric all ^Egypt ouer with fo ranke a fmell,and fo lothfome, as Galen i himlciw 

 [I not fomuch as taft of it,but conie&ured it to be deadly«yet that Centurion did vfe it again 

 the extreme pains of the joints 5 and it feemeth to the patients themfelues,tobeofavery cod rem* 

 perature^but doubtlefle of a poifonfome quality,very neere to that of Hemlockes. 



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A The vnpleafantfrael,efpecially of that common fort with fingle floures (that ft " ffetb .Lfotnc 

 like to that of Hemlocke,fuch as the juice oUjceperftum hadjdoth fhew that it is of a poiio ^ 

 and cooling qualitie ; and alfo the fame is manifefted by diuersexperiments:for I ^^^ ' jid 



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Dodontus, that I did fee a boy whofe lippes and mouth when hee began 



fwell extreamely ; as it hath often happened vnto them, that playing or piping 

 of Hemlockes, do hold them a while betweene their lippes : likewife he faith,we gaoc l "^", irt ! 



with frelh cheefc, fliee forthwith mightily fwelled, an . 



floures with their cups, tempered witntreihcneeie,inee roruiwiuj ""&""*'' VTj ' Al!»' f 

 whileafter died : a!fo mice that haue eaten of the feed thereof haue been found d eaa -^ art - 

 ihings doe declare that this herbe is of a venomous and poyfonfome facultie 5 ana . nc; 



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