284 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



whereof hath likewife three flowers, each vpon his owne footeftalke, confifting of 

 eight fmall leaues a peece, yet feeming to be but of tbure leaues fpread or layd open flat, 

 for that the foure vppermoft, which are the fmaller and being yellow, doe lye fo clofe 

 on the foure vndermoft, w ch are a little broader and red, that they fhew as if they were 

 yellow flowers with red edges, hauing yellow threds tipt with greene, ftanding in the 

 middle of the flowers : the vnderfide of the lower leaues are of a pale yellowifh red, 

 ftriped with white lines : after the flowers are part, there come fmall long pods, wher- 

 in are contained flat reddifh feede : the rootes are fmall, reddifh and hard, fpreading, 

 branching and enterlacing themfelues very much, and is lit to be placed on fome fha- 

 dy fide of a garden : the whole plant is rather of a ftrong then any good fent, yet is 

 cherifhed for the pleafant varietie of the flowers. 



The Place. 



Caefalpinus faith it groweth on the mountaines of Liguria, that is nigh 

 vnto Ligorne, in the Florentine Dominion. Camerarius faith, nigh vnto 

 Vicenzo in Italic. Bauhinus on the Euganian hils, nigh vnto Padoa, and in 

 Romania in fhadowie wet grounds. 



The Time. 



It flowreth from lune vntill the end of luly, and to the middle of Auguft, 

 if it ftand, as I faid it is fitted, in a fhadowie place. 



The Names. 



It is of moft Writers accepted for the true Epimedium of Diofcorides, 

 though he faith it is without flower or feede, being therein eyther miftaken, 

 or mif-informed, as he was alfo in DiStamnus of Candy, and diuers other 

 plants. From the triple triplicitie of the ftanding of the ftalkes and leaues, 

 and quadriplicitie of the flowers, it might receiue another name in Englifh 

 then is already impofed vpon it : but left I might be thought to be fingular 

 or full of noueltie, let it pafTe with the name Barren wort, as it is in the title. 



The Vertues. 



It is thought of diuers to agree in the propertie of cauling barrennefTe, 

 as the ancients doe record of Epimedium. 



CHAP. LI 1 1 1. 

 Papauer fatiuum. Garden Poppies. 



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F Poppies there are a great many forts, both wilde and tame, but becaufe our 

 Garden doth entertaine none, but thofe of beautie and refpecl, I wil onely 

 giue you here a few double ones, and leaue the reft to a general furuey. 



i . Papauer multiplex album. Double white Poppies. 



The double white Poppy hath diuers broade, and long whitifh greene leaues, giuing 

 milke (as all the reft of the plant aboue ground doth, wherefoeuer it is broken) very 

 much rent or torne in on the fides, and notched or indented belides, compaffing at the 

 bottome of them a hard round brittle whitifh greene ftalke, branched towards the 

 toppe, bearing one faire large great flower on the head of euery branch, which before 

 it breaketh out, is contained within a thin skinne, and being blowne open is very thick 

 of leaues, and double, fomewhat iagged at the ends, and of a white colour ; in the 



middle 



