290 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



i. Chamcemcelum nudum. Naked Camomill. 



We haue another fort of Camomill in fome Gardens, but very rare, like vnto the 

 former, but that it is whiter, finer, and fmaller, and raifeth it felfe vp a little higher, 

 and beareth naked flowers ; that is, without that border of white leaues that is in the 

 former, and confifteth onely of a yellow round thrummie head, fmelling almoft as 

 fweete as the former. 



2. Chamcemcelum Jiore plena. Double flowred Camomill. 



The double Camomill groweth with his leaues vpon the ground, as the other fin- 

 gle kinde doth, but of a little frefher greene colour, and larger withall : the ftalkes with 

 the flowers on them, doe raife themfelues vp a little higher then the ordinary, and 

 bearing one or two flowers vpon a ftalk, which are compofed of many white leaues fet 

 together in diuers rowes, which make a fine double flower, with a little yellow fpot in 

 the middle for the moft part of euery one, and are much larger then any fingle kinde, 

 fmelling better, and more pleafing then the ordinary : this doth creepe vpon the 

 ground as the other, but is more tender to be kept in the Winter. Yet if you faue the 

 flowers hereof (and fo will the double Featherfew alfo) when they haue ftood long, 

 and ready to fade, and keepe them dry vntill the Spring, and then breaking them or 

 pulling them to peeces, fowe them, there will fpring vp from them Camomill, and 

 alfo Featherfew, that will againe beare double flowers. 



The Place. 



Our ordinary Camomill groweth wilde in many places of our Country, 

 and as well neare London as in other places. The others are onely found in 

 our Gardens, where they are cherifhed. Bauhinus faith, that the double 

 flowred Camomill is found wilde about Orleance in France. 



The Time. 



The double kinde is vfually in flower in lune, before the ordinary kinde, 

 and moft commonly paft before it flowreth, which is not vntill luly or Au- 

 guft. The naked Camomill flowreth betweene them both, or later. 



The Names. 



Camomill is called Anthemis, Leucanthemis, and Leucanthemum, of the 

 whitenefle of the flowers ; and Chamcemcelum of the corrupted Italian name 

 Camomilla. Some call the naked Camomill, Chryfanthemum odoratum. The 

 double Camomill is called by fome Chamcemcelum Romanum Jiore multiplici. 



The Vertues. 



Camomill is put to diuers and fundry vfes, both for pleafure and profit, 

 both for inward and outward difeafes, both for the ficke and the found, in 

 bathings to comfort and ftrengthen the found, and to eafe paines in the dif- 

 eafed, as alfo in many other formes applyed outwardly. The flowers boy- 

 led in Poflet drinke prouoketh fweat, and helpeth to expell colds, aches, 

 and other griefes. A Syrupe made of the iuice of the double Camomill, 

 with the flowers and white wine, as Bauhinus faith, is vfed by fome againft 

 the laundife and Dropfie, caufed by the euill difpofition of the fplene. 



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