234 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Time. 



They flower for the moft part in the end of May, and fometimes fooner 

 or later, as the yeare falleth out. 



The Names. 



The firft is called by Matthiolus, Cotyledon alter a Diofcoridis, and Vmbili- 

 cus after, but it is not the true Cotyledon altera of Diofcorides ; for Sedum 

 vu/gare maius, Our common Houfeleeke, by the confent of the beft mo- 

 derne Writers, is the true Cotyledon altera of Diofcorides, or Vmbili- 

 cus Veneris alter. I hold it rather to bee a kinde of fmall Houfeleeke, as 

 the other two likewife are. The fecond is called by fome Aizoum or Se- 

 dum minus ferratum. The third hath his name in his title. Wee doe call 

 them Nauelworts in Englifh rather then Houfeleekes, Euphonies gratia. The 

 laft may be called dented Sengreene with reddifh f potted flowers, but fome 

 of our Englifh Gentlewomen haue called it, The Princes Feather, which al- 

 though it be but a by-name, may well ferve for this plant to diftinguifh it, 

 and whereby to be knowne. 



The Vertues. 

 They are all held to be cold and moift, like vnto other Houfeleekes. 



CHAP. XXXIII. 

 Soldanella Alpina. Mountaine Soldanella or blew Moonewort. 



THis beautifull plant hath many round and hard leaues, fet vpon long foote- 

 ftalkes, a little vneueniy cut about the edges, greene on the vpperfide, and of a 

 grayifh greene vnderneath, and fometime reddifh like the leaues of Sowbread, 

 which becaufe they doe fome what refemble the leaues of Soldanella marina, which is 

 the Sea Bindweede, tooke the name thereof : the ftalkes are (lender, fmall, round, and 

 reddifh, about a fpan high, bearing foure or fiue flowers at the toppe, euery one hang- 

 ing downe their heads, like vnto a Bell flower, confiding but of one leafe (as moft of 

 the Bindweeds doe) plated into fiue folds, each of them ending in a long point, which 

 maketh the flower feem to haue fiue leaues, each whereof is deeply cut in on the edges, 

 and hauing a round greene head in the middle, with a pricke or pointell at the end 

 thereof : the flower is of a faire blew colour, fometimes deeper or paler, or white, as 

 nature lifteth without any fmell at all : the middle head, after the flower is fallen, rifeth 

 to be a long round pod, bearing that pricke it had at the end thereof, wherein is con- 

 tained fmall greenifh feede : the roote hath many fibres fhooting from a long round 

 head or roote. 



The Place. 



This groweth on the Alpes, which are couered with fnow the greateft 

 part of the yeare, and will hardly abide tranf planting. 



The Time. 



In the naturall places it flowreth not vntill the Summer moneths, lune, 

 luly, and Auguft, after the fnow is melted from the Hils, but being 

 brought into Gardens, it flowreth in the beginning of Aprill, or there- 

 abouts. 



The 



