288 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Place. 



All thefe, and the reft be found wilde in diuers Countreyes, as France, 

 Spaine, Italic, 6cc. but wee onely cherifh them in our Gardens for our de- 

 light. 



The Time. 

 They flower in the end of lune, and in luly, or thereabouts. 



The Names. 



They are called Melanthium, Gith, and Nigel la, and of fome Flos Diuce 

 Catherines. We may either call them Nigella according to the Latine name, 

 or the Fenell flower, as fome doe, becaufe the double blew Nigella hath 

 fmall Fenell-like leaues bearing vp the flower, as I (hewed before in the de- 

 fcription. 



The Vertues. 



Thefe Nigella's are nothing fo hot in qualitie as the fingle Romane kind 

 is, as may well be knowne by the fmell of the feede thereof, and therefore 

 are not fit to be vfed in the fteed of it, as many ignorant perfons vfe to doe : 

 for the fingle Romane feede is vfed to helpe paines, and cold diftillations in 

 the head, and to dry vp the rheume. Pena faith, that the preffed oyle of the 

 feede as well taken inwardly as vfed outwardly is an excellent remedy for 

 the hardnefle and fwelling of the fpleene. 



CHAP. LVI. 

 Ptarmica jilueftris fare plena. Double wilde Pelletory. 



THe double wilde Pelletorie hath ftraight and flender ftalkes, befet with long 

 and narrow leaues, fnipt round about the edges, in all points like vnto the fin- 

 gle wilde kinde, that groweth common with vs almoft euery where : on the 

 toppes of the ftalkes ftand foure or fiue, or more white flowers, one aboue another, 

 with a greene leafe at the bottome of the footeftalke of euery one of them, beeing 

 fmall, thicke, and very double, with a little yellowifhnefle in the middle of euery 

 flower, like both for forme and colour vnto the flower of the double Featherfew, but 

 fmaller : the rootes are many long firings, running here and there in the ground : this 

 hath no fmell at all, but is delightfome only for the double white flowers. 



The Place. 

 It is only cherifhed in fome few Gardens, for it is very rare. 



The Time. 

 It flowreth in the end of lune or thereabouts. 



The Names. 



It is called of moft Ptarmica, or Sternutamentoria, of his qualitie to pro- 

 uoke neefing ; and of fome Pyrethrum, of the hot biting tafte. We vfually 

 call it double wilde Pelletorie, and fome Sneefewort, but Elleborus albus is 

 vfually fo called, and I would not two things mould be called by one name, 

 for the miftaking and mif-ufing of them. 



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