

The Garden of plcafant Flowers. 



calleth it Hclleborus niger tenttifilius Rupht/nilmi fiore. The fecond is called 

 tiuphtlhilmtim Niirbonenfe: In Engliih, The French, or letter Oxe eye, as the 

 rirlt is called, The great Oxe eye. The lalt, The common Oxe eye. 



The Vertues. 



The rirlt hath been vied in diuers places for the true blacke Ellebor, but 

 now is fufficiently knowne to haue been an errour ; but what Phyficall pro- 

 perty it hath, other then Matthiolus hath exprefled, to be vfed as Setter- 

 wort for cattell, when they rowell them, to put or draw the rootes hereof 

 through the hole they make in the dewe lappe, or other places, tor their 

 coughes or other difeafes, I know not, or haue heard or read of any. The 

 others like wife haue little or no vfe in Fhylicke now a daycs that I know. 



CHAP. LXII. 

 Chryfanthemum. Corne Marigold. 



A Lthough the forts of Corne Marigolds, which are many, are fitter for another 

 L\ then this worke, and for a Catholicke Garden of Simples, then this of Pleafure 

 * *"and Delight for faire Flowers; yet giue me leaue to bring in a couple : the one 

 for a corner or by-place, the other for your choifeft, or vnder a defenced wall, in re- 

 gard of his ftatelinefle. 



i. Chryfanthemum Creticum. Corne Marigold of Candy. 



This faire Corne Marigold hath for the moft part one vpright ftalke, two foote 

 high, whereon are fet many winged leaues, at euery ioynt one, diuided and cut into 

 diuers parts, and they againe parted into feuerall peeces or leaues : the flowers growe 

 at the toppes of the ftalkes, rifing out of a fcaly head, compofed of ten or twelue large 

 leaues, of a faire, but pale yellow colour, and more pale almoft white at the bottome 

 of the leaues, round about the yellow thrumme in the middle, being both larger and 

 fweeter then any of the other Corne Marigolds: the feede is whitifh and chaffie: 

 the roote perifheth euery yeare. 



2. Chryfanthemum Peruuianum, Jiue Flos So/is. 

 The golden flower of Peru, or the Flower of the Sunne. 



This goodly and ftately plant, wherewith euery one is now a dayes familiar, being 

 of many forts, both higher and lower (with one rtalke, without branches, or with 

 many branches, with a blacke, or with a white feede, yet differing not in forme of 

 leaues or flowers one from another, but in the greatnefle or fmalneffe) rifeth vp at the 

 tirlt like vnto a Pompion with two leaues, and after two, or foure more leaues are 



come forth, it rifeth vp into a great ftalke, bearing the leaues on it at feuerall diftan- 

 ces on all fides thereof, one aboue another vnto the very toppe, being fometimes, and 

 in fome places, feuen, eight, or ten foote high, which leaues (landing out from the 

 ftemme or ftalke vpon their feuerall great ribbed foote-ftalkes, are very large, broad 

 belowe, and pointed at the end, round, hard, rough, of a fad greene colour, and 

 bending downewards : at the toppe of the ftalke ftandeth one great, large, and broad 

 flower, bowing downe the head vnto the Sunne, and breaking forth from a great head, 

 made of fcaly greene leaues, like vnto a great fingle Marigold, hauing a border of ma- 

 nie long yellow leaues, fet about a great round yellow thrumme, as it were in the mid- 

 dle, which are very like vnto fhort heads of flowers, vnder euery one whereof there is 

 a feede, larger then any feede of the Thirties, yet fomewhat like, and lefler, and roun- 

 der then any Gourd feede, fet in fo clofe and curious a manner, that when the feede is 

 taken out, the head with the hollow places or eels thereof, feemeth very like vnto an 

 hony combe ; which feede is in fome plants very blacke, in the hotter countries, or very 



white, 



