DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 153 



former and is [a blank space]. The root is small and yealowe with 

 some threeds. The whole plant (except the doblenes of the flowers) 

 is like the single Damaske Nigella. — MS. f. 11 1. 



Nigella hispanica L. 5'° Sept. 162J 



Nigella elegans ex Hispania. 



This beutifull Nigella hath small round straked upright stalks, 

 devided into branches, whereon growe iagged leaves of a pale greene 

 color, whose iaggs are not so broad as those of Nigella fiore albo 

 plena, nor so narrowe or small as those of Nigella Damascena. At 

 the toppe of ech stalk and branch groweth one greate pleasant 

 flower, bigger then anie of the other sorts of Nigella, made of 

 5 sharpe pointed wrinckled leaves, everie leafe beinge about anynch 

 both in lenght and bredth, of a beutifull purple color above, and of 

 a whitish greene with a little shewe of purple underneath. In the 

 midle of the flower groweth the head havinge sometimes but 7 or 8 

 most comonlie 12 or 13 homes, at the first small of a deepe 

 murrey or obscure browne redd color, about which groweth manie 

 cheives of the same color, next and close above the leaves of the 

 flower, there groweth spread abroad 8 small forked leaves of a blewe 

 color, with a reddish line crossinge them at the first, and afterwards 

 havinge a white line close adioyninge, and one small short pointell 

 appearinge neare the midle of ech of those leaves. The leaves 

 of the flowers beinge readie to fall away, the heads appeare greater, 

 and are rough sett as it were with fine redd spotts, and the homes 

 are wound or turned round in the end. — MS. f. iii. 



[Both of these descriptions of Nigellas were sent to Johnson but 

 were not included in the Herbal, cf. p. 1085.] 



Convolvulus purpiircus L. var. 

 Convolvulus coeruleus Bryoniae nigraefolio. 7 Sept. i6ai 



flos Noctis. non script. 



Hath manie small weake round hairie browne redd branches, 

 growinge from one root, windinge wrappinge and turninge them 

 selves against the sunne, round sticks or poles that are sett by them 

 for that purpose : whereon by certaine distances growe greate 

 broad leaves, in a manner round, yet picked at the toppe, without 

 anie corners like Ivie leaves, verie like those of Bryonia nigra but 

 rounder, somewhat rough above and smooth underneath. Forth of 

 the bosomes of the leaves growe longe slender hairie footstalks, on 

 the toppe whereof growe 2 or 3 most beutifull flowers, not flowringe 

 all at a time but one after another, those that will open in the 

 morninge make some small shewe overnight, onlie wound together, 

 and not of half their growth, erlie in the morninge they appeare in 



