* 



j 5 z Of the Hiftoric of Plants. L i b. i. 



2 The other golden floure of Peru is like the former/airing that it is altogether lowered the 

 leaucs more jaggcd,and very few in number. 



3 The male floure of the Sun of the fmaller fort hath a thicke root,hard, and of a woody fub- 

 ftancc f with many threddy firings anexed thereto, from which rifeth vp a gray or rufTet ftalk to the 

 height of fiuc or fix cubirs,of the bignefle of ones ar me, whereupon are fet great broad leaues with 

 longfootftalks,veryfragi!loreafictoto 



what cut or hack t about the edges like a faw : the floure groweth at the top of the ftalks,bordcrcd" 

 aboutwithapaleof yellow leaues: the thrummed middle part isblacker than that of the laft 

 defcribed : the whole floure is compared about likewife with diuers fitch ruffet leaues as they are 

 that grow lower vpon the ftalks,but leffer and narrower. The plant and euery part thereof fmeils 

 ©f rurpcntine,and the floure yeeldeth forth mod cleare turpentine, as my felfehauc noted diuers 

 yeares. The feed isalfo long and blacke^ith certain lines or ftrakes of white running aloogft the 

 fame : the root and euery part thereof periiheth when it hath perfe&ed his feed. 



4 



wooddy 



fraootb 



i 



row 



coIour,the middle part is of a deeper yellow tending to blacknefle,of the forme and fliapeofa fin- 

 gle MarigoId,whereupon I haue named it the Sun Marigold.The feed as yet I haue not obferued. 



^ The Place. * 



. Thefe plants grow of themfelues without fetting or fowing,in Peru,and in diuers other prouin- 

 *es of America,from whence the feeds haue beenebrought into thefe parts of Europ. There hath 

 bin feen in Spain and other hot regions a plant fowne and nourished vp from feedjto attaine to the 

 height of 24 foot in one yeare. 



€fi The Time. 

 The feed muft be fetor fownc in the beginning of April,if the weather be temperat,in themoft 

 fertill ground that may be,and where the Sun hath raoft power the whole day, 



^[ The Names. 

 The flour of the Sun is called in Latine Flos Solis^oi that fome haue reported it to turn with the 

 Sun,which I could neuer obferue,although I haue indcauored to finde out the truth of it : but I ra- 

 ther thinke it was fo called becaufe it refemblcs the radiant beams of the Sunne,whereupon fome 

 haue called it Corona SW/*,and Sollndianusfhz Indian Sunne-floure :others,C hrtfanthmum Pernio 



w 3 or the Golden floure of Peru : inEnglifh,the floure of the Sun,or the Sun-floure. 



^J The Temperature. 

 They are thought to be hot and dry of complexion. 



qf TheVertues. 



A There hath not any thing bin fet down either of the antient or kter writers^concerning the ver- 

 tues of thefe plants,notwithftanding we haue found by trial!, that the buds before they be floured 

 boiled and eaten with butter, vineger 3 and pepper, after the manner of Artichokes, are exceeding 



** The fame buds w 



procuring bod 



f pOQ 



a 



the like prop 



Chap. 160. 



* 



Oflerufalem arfrticbofy; 





Ne may wel by the Englifh name of this plant perceiue,that thofe that w) &^yj^S- 

 to plants,haue little either judgement or knowledge of them : for this plant hatn ■» ^ 

 tude in Ieafe, ftalke,root,or manner of gronring,with an Artichoke,but only a little i j 

 of taftc in the diefled root j neither came it from Ierufalem, or out of Afia,but out or a« ■ 



Farnefi 



lifter PeruvMnus 



