The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Vcrtucs. 



The properties hereof, no doubt, may well bee referred to the linglc 

 kinde, beeing of the fame qualitie, yet as I take it, a little more milde and 

 temperate. 



CHAP. LVII. 



Parthenium Jiore plena. Double Feathcrfew. 



FEatherfew that beareth double flowers is fo like vnto the fingle kinde, that the 

 one cannot be difcerned from the other, vntill it come to flower, bearing broad, 

 pale or frelh greene leaues, much cut in on the fides : the ftalkes haue fuch like 

 leaues on them as grow below, from the toppes whereof come forth many double 

 white flowers, like vnto the flowers of the former wilde Pelletory, but larger, and 

 like alfo vnto the flowers of the double Camomill : the fent whereof is as ftrong as 

 of the fingle. 



The Place. 



We haue this kinde only in Gardens, and as it is thought by others, is pe- 

 culiar only to our owne Countrey. 



The Time. 

 It flowreth in the end of May, and in lune and luly. 



The Names. 



It is called diuerfly by diuers : Some thinke it to be Parthenium of Dio- 

 fcorides, but not of Galen ; for his Parthenium is a fweet herbe, and is thought 

 to bee Amaracus, that is Marierome : others call it Matricaria ; and fome 

 Amarella. Gaza tranflateth it Muraleum, Theoph. lib. 7. cap. j. It is generally 

 in thele parts of our Country called Double Feaverfew, or Featherfew. 



The Vertues. 



It is anfwerable to all the properties of the fingle kinde which is vfed 

 for womens difeafes, to procure their monthly courfes chiefly. It is held 

 to bee a fpeciall remedy to helpe thofe that haue taken Opium too liberally. 

 In Italy fomc vfe to eate the fingle kinde among other greene herbes, as 

 Camerarius faith, but efpecially fryed with egges, and fo it wholly lofeth 

 his ftrong and bitter tafte. 



CHAP. LVII I. 



Chamamcelum. Camomill. 



OVr ordinary Camomill is well knowne to all, to haue many fmal trayling 

 branches, fet with very fine fmal leaues, burning and fpreading thicke o- 

 uer the ground, taking roote ftill as it fpreadeth : the toppes of the branches 

 haue white flowers, with yellow thrummes in the middle, very like vnto the Feather- 

 few, before defcribed, but fomewhat greater, not fo hard, but more foft and gentle in 

 handling, and the whole herbe to be of a very fweet fent. 



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