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The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 





in their naturall hot Countries haue a fine fent, but in thefe colder, little or none at all : 

 the rootes are fmall and threadie, and perifh after they haue flowred and feeded. 



5. Linaria Valentina. Tode Flaxe of Valentia. 



This Spanifh Tode Flaxe hath three or foure thicker and bigger ftalkes then the 

 former, bearing fmall broad leaues, like vnto the fmall Centory, two or three together 

 at a ioynt, round about the lower end of the ftalkes, but without any order vpwards, at 

 the toppes whereof ftand many flowers, in fafhion like vnto the common kinde, 

 and almoft as large, of a faire yellow colour, but the gaping mouth is downie, and 

 the fpurre behinde of a purplifh colour. 



6. Scoparia Jiue Eeluidere Italorum. Broome Tode Flaxe. 



Although this plant haue no beautifull flowers, yet becaufe the greene plant full of 

 leaues is fo delightfull to behold, being in Italy and other places planted not onely in 

 their Gardens, but fet likewife in pots to furnifh their Windowes, and euen with vs 

 alfo hath growne to be fo dainty a greene bufh, that I haue thought it worthy to be a- 

 mong the delights of my Garden ; the defcription whereof is as followeth : This plea- 

 fant Broome Flaxe rifeth vp molt vfually with one ftraight vpright fquare ftalke, three 

 foote and a halfe high or better in our Gardens, branching it felfe out diuers waies, 

 bearing thereon many long narrow leaues, like the Garden Line or Flaxe, very thicke 

 fet together, like vnto a bufh, or rather like vnto a faire greene Cyprefle tree, growing 

 broad belowe, and fpire-fafhion vpwards, of a very faire greene colour : at the feue- 

 rall ioynts of the branches, towards the tops, and among the leaues, there come forth 

 fmall reddifh flowers, not eafily feene nor much regarded, being of no beauty, which 

 turne into fmall round blackifh gray feede : the rootes are a number of blackifh firings 

 fet together, and the whole plant periflieth euery yeare at the firft approach of any cold 

 ayre, as if it neuer had beene fo faire a greene bufh. 



The Place. 



Thefe kindes of wilde Flaxe doe growe naturally in diuers places, fome 

 in Germany, fome in Spaine, and fome in Italy. Thofe that delight in the 

 beauty of natures variety, doe preferue them, to furnifh vp the number of 

 pleafant afpedts. 



The Time. 



They all flower in the Summer moneths, and foone after perfed: their 

 feede. 



The Names. 



Their names are fufficiently expretfed in their titles, yet I muft giue you 

 to vnderftand that the laft is called of fome Linaria magna, and of others 

 Ofyris. 



The Vertues. 



The wilde Flaxe hath no medecinable vertue appropriate vnto it that is 

 knowne. The Tode Flaxe is accounted to be good, to caufe one to make 

 water. 



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