1 90 The Garden of pieafant Flowers. 



flowers, and likewife that the Flowers of this, which ftand not on both fides, are of a 

 deeper red colour, and flower later, after all the reft are paft : the roote hereof being 

 netted as plainly as any of the former, is as plentifull alfo to giue encreafe, but is more 

 tender and lefle able to abide our fharpe cold Winters. 



Gladiolus jiore rubente. Blufh Corne Flagge. 



This blufh kinde is like vnto the French Corne Flagge in all refpecls, fauing onely 

 that the flowers are of a pale red colour, tending to whitenefTe, which wee vfually call 

 a blufh colour. 



Gladiolus Jlore albo. White Corne Flagge. 



This white Corne Flagge alfo differeth not from the laft, but onely that the rootes 

 are whiter on the outiide, the leaues are greener, without any browneffe or darkneffe 

 as in the former, and the flowers are fnow white. 



Gladiolus purpureus minor. The fmall purple Corne Flagge. 



This alfo differeth not from any of the former, but onely in the fmallneffe both of 

 leafe, ftalke, and flowers, which ftand all on the one fide, like vnto the French kinde, 

 and of the fame colour : the roote of this kinde is netted more then any other. 



The Place. 



They grow in France and Italy, the leaft in Spaine, and the Byzantine, 

 as it is thought, about Constantinople, being (as is faid) firft fent from 

 thence. lohn Tradefcante allured mee, that hee faw many acres of ground 

 in Barbary fpread ouer with them. 



The Time. 



They all flower in lune and luly, and the Byzantine lateft, as is faid be- 

 fore. 



The Names. 



It hath diuers names; for the Latines call it Gladiolus, of the forme of a 

 fword, which the leafe doth refemble. The Romanes Segefa/is, becaufe it 

 groweth in the Corne fields. Some call it ViSlorialis rotunda, to put a diffe- 

 rence between it, and the longa, which is a kinde of Garlicke. Plinie faith, 

 that Gladiolus is Cypirus, but to decide that controuerfie, and many others, 

 belongeth to another difcourfe, this being intended only for pleafure. Ger- 

 rard miftaketh the French kinde for the Italian. 



The Vertues. 



The roote being bruifed, and applyed with Frankinfenfe (and often of 

 it felfe without it) in the manner of a pultis or plaifter, is held of diuers to 

 be fingular good to draw out fplinters, thornes, and broken bones out of 

 the fleTh. Some take it be effecluall to ftirre vp Venerie, but I fomewhat 

 doubt thereof: For Galen in his eighth Booke of Simples, giueth vnto it a 

 drawing, digefting and drawing faculty. 



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