274 The Garden of p/eafant Flowers. 



of fafting, many dayes together, to helpe them that are troubled with the 

 ftone in the kidneyes. Others vfe the decoftion, of both herbe and roote in 

 wine, with a little Ambargrife, againft thofe kinds of fwounings, which the 

 Greekes call ASwa/ua. The feede is vfed for the iaundife, and other obftructi- 

 ons of the liuer. Clufius writeth from the experience of Francifcus Rapard, 

 a chiefe Phyfician of Bruges in Flanders, that the feede beaten and drunke 

 is effecluall to women in trauell of childe, to procure a fpeedy deliuerie, 

 and aduifeth a fecond draught thereof fhould be taken if the firft fucceede 

 not fufficiently. 



CHAP. XL VI I. 

 ThaliStrum Hifpanicum. Spanifh Tufts, or Tufted Colombines. 



FRom among the diuerfities of this plant, I haue felecled out two forts for this my 

 garden, as hauing more beautie then all the reft ; leauing the other to be entreated 

 of, where all in generall may be included. I haue in this place inferted them, for 

 the likeneffe of the leaues only, being in no other part correfpondent, and in a Chap- 

 ter by themfelues, as it is moft fit. 



'ThaliStrum Hifpanicum album. White Spanifh tufted Colombines. 



Thefe plants haue both one forme, in roote, leafe and flower, and therefore neede 

 but one defcription. The leaues are both for colour and forme fo like vnto Colom- 

 bines leaues (although lefler and darker, yet more fpread, and on larger ftalkes) that 

 they may eafily deceiue one, that doth not marke them aduifedly ; for the leaues are 

 much more diuided, and in fmaller parts, and not fo round at the ends : the ftalkes are 

 round, ftrong, and three foote high at the leaft, branching out into two or three parts, 

 with leaues at the feuerall ioynts of them, at the toppes whereof ftand many flowers, 

 which are nothing but a number of threads, made like vnto a fmall round tuft, break- 

 ing out of a white skinne, or leafe, which inclofeth them, and being vnblowne, fhew 

 like vnto little buttons : the colour of thefe threds or tufts in this are whitifh with yel- 

 low tips on them, and fomewhat purplim at the bottome, hauing a ftrong but no good 

 fent, and abiding in their beautie (efpecially if they grow in the (hade, and not too 

 hot in the fun) a great while, and then fall away, like fhort downe or threds : the feed 

 veflels are three fquare, containing fmall, long, and round feede ; the rootes are ma- 

 ny long yellow ftringes, which endure and encreafe much. 



Thaliftrum Montanum purpureum. Purple tufted Colombines. 



This purple tufted Colombine differeth onely from the former, in that it is not lo 

 high nor fo large, and that the colour of the flower or tuft is of a blewif h purple co- 

 lour with yellow tips, and is much more rare then the other. 



The Place. 

 Thefe grow both in Spaine and Italic. 



The Time. 

 They flower in the end of May, or in lune, and fometimes later. 



The Names. 



Some doe call them Thaliotrum^ and fome Thaliflrum. Others Rutapalu- 

 Jlns, and Ruta pratenjis, and fome Rhabarbarum Monachorum, or Pfeudo- 



rhabarbarum, 



