The Garden of pleafant t lowers. 



CHAP. LXIII1. 

 After. Starrc-wort. 



Dlofcoridcs and other of the ancient Writers, hauc fet forth but one kinde of 

 Starre-wort, which they call After Atticus, of the place no doubt, where the 

 greateft plentie was found, which was the Countrey of Athens : the later 

 Writers haue found out many other plants which they referre to this kinde, calling 

 them by the fame name. It is not my purpofe to entreate of them all, neyther doth 

 thi> garden fitly agree with them : I (hall therefore feleft out one or two from the reft, 

 and giue the knowledge of them, leauing the reft to their proper place. 



I . AJier Atticui fare luteo. Yellow Starre-wort. 



This Starre-wort rifeth vp with two or three rough hairy ftalkes, a foote and a halfe 

 high, with long, rough or hairie, brownifh, darke greene leaues on them, diuided into 

 two or three branches: at the toppe of euery one whereof ftandeth a flat fcaly head, 

 compafled vnderneath with Hue or fixe long, browne, rough greene leaues, ftanding 

 like a Starre, the flower it felfe Handing in the middle thereof, made as a border of 

 narrow, long, pale yellow leaues, fet with a brownifh yellow thrume : the roote dyeth 

 euery yeare, hauing giuen his flower. 



2. After Atticus Italorum Jiore purpureo. Purple Italian Starre-wort. 



This Italian Starre-wort hath many wooddy, round brittle ftalkes, rifing from the 

 roote, fomewhat higher then the former, fometimes Handing vpright, and other- 

 whiles leaning downewards, whereon are fet many fomewhat hard, and rough long 

 leaues, round pointed, without order vp to the toppe, where it is diuided into feue- 

 rall branches, whereon Hand the flowers, made like vnto a fingle Marigold, with a bor- 

 der of blewifh purple leaues, fet about a browne middle thrume, the heads fuftaining 

 the flowers, are compofed of diuers fcaly greene leaues, as is to be feene in the Knap- 

 weedes or Matfelons, which after the flowers are part yeelde a certaine downe, where- 

 in lye fmall blacke and flat feedes, fomewhat like vnto Lettice feede, which are carried 

 away with the winde : the roote is compofed of many white firings, which perifheth 

 not as the former, but abideth, and fpringeth afrefh euery yeare. 



The Place. 



The firft is found in Spaine, as Clufius, and in France, as Lobel fay. The 

 other hath beene found in many places in Germany, and Auftria : in Italic 

 alfo, and other places ; we haue it plentifully in our Gardens. 



The Time. 



The firft flowreth in Summer. And the other not vntill Auguft or Sep- 

 tember. 



The Names. 



The firft is called After Atticus Jiore luteo, Bubonium, & Inguinalis, and of 

 many is taken to be the true After Atticus of Diofcorides : yet Matthiolus 

 thinketh not fo, for diuers good reafons, which hee fetteth downe in the 

 Chapter of After Atticus, as any man may vnderftand, if they will but reade 

 the place, which is too long to bee inferted here. The other is thought by 

 Matthiolus, to bee the truer After Atticus, (vnto whom I muft alfo confent) 

 and conftantly alfo affirmed to be the Amellus Virgilij, as may be feene in the 

 fame place : but it is ufually called at this day, After Italorum ftore caruleo or 



purpureo, 



