286 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



middle whereof ftandeth a round head or bowle, with a ftriped crowne on the heade 

 of it, very like a ftarre, compafled about with fome threds, wherein when it is ripe, is 

 contained fmall, round, white feede, difpofed into feuerall eels : the roote is hard, 

 wooddy, and long, perifhing euery yeare, and muft bee new fowne euery Spring, if 

 they doe not fpring of their own (owing, which if it doe, the flowers are feldome fo 

 faire and double as they that are fowne in the Spring : the whole plant is of a ftrong 

 heady fmell. 



2. Papauer multiplex rubefcens. Double red or blufh Poppies. 



This other kind of double Poppy differeth not in any other thing from the former, 

 but only in the colour of the flowers, which are of a bright red, tending to a blufh co- 

 lour, parted, paned or ftriped in many places with white, and exceedingly more iagged 

 then the former, almoft like a feather at the ends, the bottomes of all the leaues being 

 white : the feede hereof is white as the former, which is not fo in any other Poppie, 

 that beareth not a full white flower. 



3. Papauer multiplex nigrum Jiue pur pure urn. 

 Double purple or murry Poppies. 



This kinde varyeth both in flowers and feede, although neyther in leaues or any o- 

 ther thing from the firft : the flowers are thicke and double, and fomewhat iagged at 

 the ends, in fome more, in fome lefle, eyther red or blufh, or purplifh red, more or lefle, 

 or of a fad murrey or tawney, with browne, or blacke, or tawny bottomes : the feede 

 is eyther of a grayifh blew colour, or in others more blackifh. 



4. Papauer Rhceas Jiore multiplier. The double red field Poppie. 



This double Poppie is like the wilde or fielde Poppie, which is well knowne to all 

 to haue longer, narrower, and more iagged greene leaues then the former, the ftalkes 

 more hairy, and the flower of a deepe yellowifh red colour, knowne to all. Now this 

 differeth in nothing from it, but in the doubleneffe of the flower, which is very thicke 

 and double, but not fo large as the former. This rifeth of feede in the like manner as 

 they doe, and fo to bee preferued. 



The Place. 



From what place they haue beene firft gathered naturally I cannot allure 

 you, but we haue had them often and long time in our gardens, being fent 

 from Italic and other places. The double wilde kindes came from Con- 

 ftantinople, which whether it groweth neere vnto it or further off", we can- 

 not tell as yet. 



The Time. 



They flower in the beginning or middle of lune at the furtheft, the feede 

 is ripe within a fmall while after. 



The Names. 



The generall knowne name to all, is Papauer, Poppie : the feuerall diftin- 

 clions are according to their colours. Yet our Englifh Gentlewomen in 

 fome places, call it by a by-name, lone filuer pinne : fubauditur, Faire with- 

 out and fowle within. 



The Vertues. 



It is not vnknowne, I fuppofe to any, that Poppie procureth fleepe, for 

 which caufe it is wholly and onely vfed, as I thinke : but the water of the 



wilde 





