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CHAP. LX. 

 Flos Adonis fare rubro. Red Adonis flower. 



ADonis flower may well be accounted a kinde of Camomill, although it hath 

 fome efpeciall differences, hauing many long branches of leaues lying vpon 

 the ground, and fome riling vp with the ftalke, fo finely cut and iagged, that 

 they much refemble the leaues of Mayweed, or of the former Nigella : at the top of the 

 faoces, which rife a foote high or better, rtand fmall red flowers, confiding of fix or 

 eight round leaues, hauing a greene head in the middle, fet about with many blackifh 

 threads, without any fmell at all : after the flowers are part, there grow vp heads with 

 many roundifh white feedes at the toppes of them, fet clofe together, very like vnto 

 the heads of feede ot the great Oxe eye, fet downe in the next Chapter, but fmaller : 

 the rootes are fmall and thready, perilling euery yeare, but riling of his owne feede 

 againe, many times before Winter, which will abide vntill the next yeare. 



Yellow Adonis flower is like vnto the red, but that the flower is fomewhat larger, Fl " / *"- 

 and of a faire yellow colour. 



The Place. 



The firrt groweth wilde in the corn fields in many places of our own coun- 

 try, as well as in others, and is brought into Gardens for the beauties fake 

 ot the flower. The yellow is a ftranger, but nourfed in our Gardens with o- 

 ther rarities. 



The Time. 







They flower in May or lune, as the yeare falleth out to be early or late : 

 the feed is foone ripe after, and will quickly fall away, if it be not gathered. 



The Names. 



Some haue taken the red kinde to be a kinde of Anemone ; other to be 

 Eranthemum of Diofcorides : the moft vfuall name now with vs is Flos A- 

 Jonis, and Flos Adonidis : In Englifh, where it groweth wilde, they call it 

 red Maythes, as they call the Mayweede, white Maythes; and fome of our 

 Englifh Gentlewomen call it Rofarubie : we vfually call it Adonis flower. 



The Vertues. 



It hath been certainly tryed by experience, that the feed of red Adonis 

 flower drunke in wine, is good to eafe the paines of the Collicke and Stone. 



CHAP. LXI. 

 Buphthalmum. Oxe eye. 



VNder the name Buphthalmum, or Oxe eye, are comprehended two or three fe- 

 uerall plants, each differing from other, both in face and property, yet becaufe 

 they all beare one generall name, I thinke fitted to comprife them all in one 

 Chapter, and firrt of that which in leafe & feed commeth nearefl to the Adonis flower. 



I . Buphthalmum maius Jiue Helleborus niger ferulaceus. 

 Great Oxe eye, or the yellow Anemone. 



This great Oxe eye is a beautifull plant, hauing many branches of greene leaues 



leaning 



