266 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



CHAP. X LI 1 1. 



Linum Jiluejlre & Linaria. Wilde Flaxe and Tode Flaxe. 



ALthough neither the manured Line or Flaxe is a plant fit for our Garden, nor 

 many of the wilde forts, yet there are fome, whofe pleafant and delightfull 

 afpeft doth entertaine the beholders eyes with good content, and thofe I will 

 fet downe here for varietie, and adioyne vnto them fome of the Linarias, or Tode 

 Flaxe, for the neare affinity with them. 



1. Linum Jiluejlre flore albo. Wilde Flaxe with a white flower. 



This kinde of wilde Flaxe rifeth vp with diuers {lender branches, a foote high or 

 better, full of leaues, (landing without order, being broader and longer then the ma- 

 nured Flaxe : the tops of the branches haue diuers faire white flowers on them, com- 

 pofed of fiue large leaues a peece, with many purple lines or ftrikes in them : the feede 

 veflell as well as the feede, is like vnto the heads and feede of the manured Flaxe : the 

 rootes are white firings, and abide diuers yeares, fpringing frefh branches and leaues 

 euery yeare, but not vntill the Spring of the yeare. 



2. Linum Jiluejlre luteum. Wilde Flaxe with a yellow flower. 



This wilde Flaxe doth fo well refemble a kinde of St. lohns wort, that it will foone 

 deceiue one that doth not aduifedly regard it : For it hath many reddifh ftalkes, and 

 fmall leaues on them, broader then the former wilde Flaxe, but not fo long, which are 

 well ftored with yellow flowers, as large as the former, made of fiue leaues a peece, 

 which being part, there come fmall flattifh heads, containing blackifh feede, but not 

 mining like the former : the rootes hereof dye not euery yeare, as many other of the 

 wilde kindes doe, but abide and fhoote out euery yeare. 



3. Linaria purpurea. Purple Tode Flaxe. 



This purple Tode Flaxe hath diuers thicke, fmall, long, and fomewhat narrowifh 

 leaues, fnipt about the edges, of a whitifh greene colour, from among which rife vp 

 diuers ftalkes, replenished at the tops with many fmall flowers, (landing together one 

 aboue another fpike-fafhion, which are fmall and fomewhat fweete, while they are 

 frefh, fafhioned fomewhat like the common Tode flaxe that groweth wilde abroad al- 

 moft euery where, but much fmaller, with a gaping mouth, but without any crooked 

 fpurre behinde, like vnto them, fometimes of a fad purple neare vnto a Violet, and 

 fometimes of a paler blew colour, hauing a yellow fpot in the middle or gaping place : 

 after the flowers are paft, there come fmall, hard, round heads, wherein are contained 

 fmall, flat, and grayifh feede : the roote is fmall and perifheth for the mod part euery 

 yeare, and will fpring againe of it owne fowing, if it be fuffered to med it felfe, yet 

 fome hard Winters haue killed the feede it .mould feeme, in that fometimes it faileth 

 to fpring againe, and therefore had neede to be fowne anew in the Spring. 



4. Linaria purpurea odorata. Sweete purple Tode Flaxe. 



The lower leaues of this purple Tode Flaxe are nothing like any of the reft, but are 

 long and broad, endented about the edges, fomewhat refembling the leaues of the 

 greater wilde white Daifie : the ftalke is fet at the bottome with fuch like leaues, but 

 a little more diuided and cut in, and ftill fmaller and fmaller vpward, fo that the vp- 

 permoft leaues are very like the common Tode Flaxe, the toppe whereof is branched, 

 hauing diuers fmall flowers growing along vpon them, in fafhion and colour almofl 

 like the laft defcribed Tode Flaxe, but not altogether fo deepe a purple : the heads 

 and feedes are very like the former, but that the feede of this is reddifh : the flowers 



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