The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



wildc Poppies, bclides that it is of great vfc in Pleurilics, and Rheumatick, 

 or thinnc Diltillations, is found by daily experience, to bee a foueraigne re- 

 medy againll furfeits ; yet fome doe attribute this propcrtie to the water 

 of the wilde Poppies. 





CHAP. LV. 

 Nigella. The Pencil flower, or Nigella. 



AMong the many forts of Nigella, both wilde and tame, both fmgle and double, 

 I will onely fet downe three forts, to be nourfed vp in this garden, referring the 

 rell to a Phylicke garden, or a gencrall Hiftorie, which may comprehend all. 



i. Nigella Hifpanica flore fimflici. The great Spanifh Nigella. 



Spanifh Nigella rifeth vp with diucrs greene leaues, fo finely cut, and into fo many 

 parts, that they are finer then Pencil, and diuided fomewhat like the leaues of Larkes 

 heeles, among which rife vp Italkes, with many fuch like leaues vpon them, branched 

 into three or foure parts, at the toppe of each whereof ilandeth one faire large flower, 

 like vnto other fingle Nigella's, confining of fiue or fix leaues fometimes, of a bleake 

 blew, or of a purplilh blew colour, with a greene head in the middle, comparted about 

 with feuen or eight fmall blewiih greene flowers, or peeces of flowers rather, made 

 like gaping hoodes, with euery of them a yellowifh line thwart or crofle the middle 

 of them, with fome threds alfo rtanding by them : atter the flower is part the head 

 groweth greater, hauing fixe, feuen or eight homes as it were at the toppe, greater and 

 longer, and Handing clofer together then any other Nigella, fpreading very like a 

 ftarre, or the crowne of the Poppy head, but larger and longer, each whereof being 

 folded together, openeth a little when the head is ripe, which is greater aboue, and 

 fmaller below, and not fo round as the others are, containing within them fmall yel- 

 lowifh greene feede, or not fo blacke as the other forts : the rootes are fmall and yel- 

 low, periming euery yeare as the others likewife doe. 



2. Nigella Damafcena fore mtiltiplici. 

 Double blew Nigella, or The Pencil flower. 



The double Nigella is in leaues, llalkes and rootes, very like vnto the former Ni- 

 gella, fo that the one can very hardly bee difcerned from the other before this rife vp 

 to flower, except it be that the leaues hereof are not fully fo large as they : the flower 

 confilteth of three or foure rowes of leaues, layde one vpon another, of a pale blew 

 colour, with a greene round head comparted with diuers fhort threads in the middle, 

 and hauing fiue or fixe fuch fmall greene Fenell-like leaues vnder the flower, to beare 

 it vp (as it were) below, which adde a greater grace to the flowers, which at the firtt 

 (heweth fometimes white, but changeth quickely after : the horned heads hereof are 

 like vnto the heads ot the other wilde kinde, which are fomewhat rounder and grea- 

 ter, hauing within them blacke vneuen feedes, but without any fent. 



3. Nigella Catrina flare albo mitltiplici. Double white Nigella. 



This double white Nigella hath fuch like leaues as the laft hath, but fomewhat lar- 

 ger, of a yellower greene colour, and not fo finely cut and iagged : the flowers are 

 fomewhat lefle, and lerter double then the former, and in colour white, hauing no 

 greene leaues vnder the flower, as the former hath, the head whereof in the middle is 

 very like the head of the lall double kinde, but not fo great, wherein is contained black 

 feede for the molt part, and fweete like the Romane Nigella, which only is fweet be- 

 fides this : yet fometimes it is not fo blacke, but rather a little more white or yellow- 

 ifh : the roote is yellow, and perilheth as the others euery yeare. 



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