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The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



purpareo. Their Englifh names are fufficiently exprefled in their titles, yet 

 fome call the laft, The purple Marigold, becaufe it is fo like vnto one in form. 



The Vertues. 



They are held, if they bee the right, to bee good for the biting of a mad 

 dogge, the greene herbe being beaten with old hogs greafe, and applyed ; 

 as alfo for fwolne throats: It is likewife vfed for botches that happen in 

 the groine, as the name doth import. 



CHAP. LXV. 

 Pilofella maior. Golden Moufe-eare. 



SOme refemblance that the flowers of this plant hath with the former Golds, 

 maketh me to infert it in this place, although I know it agreeth not in any other 

 part, yet for the pleafant afpeft thereof, it muft bee in this my garden, whofe de- 

 fcription is as followeth : It hath many broade greene leaues fpread vpon the ground, 

 fpotted with pale fpots, yet more confpicuous at fometimes then at other ; fomewhat 

 hairy both on the vpper and vnderfide, in the middle of thefe leaues rife vp one, two 

 or more blackifh hairy ftalkes, two foote high at the leaft, bare or naked vp to the top, 

 where it beareth an vmbell, or fhort tuft of flowers, fet clofe together vpon fhort 

 ftalkes, of the forme or fafhion of the Haukeweedes, or common Moufe-eare, but 

 fomewhat fmaller, of a deep gold yellow, or orenge tawney colour, with fome yellow 

 threds in the middle, of little or no lent at all : after the flowers are paft, the heads carry 

 fmall, fhort, blacke feede, with a light downie matter on them, ready to bee carried a- 

 way with the winde, as many other plants are, when they be ripe : the rootes fpread 

 vnder ground, and fhoote vp in diuers other places, whereby it much encreafeth, efpe- 

 cially if it be fet in any moift or fhadowie place. 



The Place. 



It groweth in the fhadowie woods of France, by Lions, and Mompelier, as 

 Lobell teftifieth : we keepe it in our gardens, and rather in a fhadowie then 

 funnie place. 



The Time. 



It flowreth in Somer, and fometimes againe in September. 



The Names. 



It is called by Lobell, Pulmonaria Gallorum Hieratij facie : and the Herba- 

 rifts of France take it to be the true Pulmonaria of Tragus. Others call it Hie- 

 ratiumjioreaureo. PelleteriusHieratiumlndicum. SomePi/o/e//a, or Auricula 

 muris maior jtore aureo. And fome Chondrilla Jtore aureo. Dalechamptus 

 would haue it to bee Corchorus, but farre vnfitly. The fitteft Englilh name 

 we can giue it, is Golden Moufe-eare, which may endure vntill a fitter bee 

 impofed on it : for the name of Grim the Collier, whereby it is called of 

 many, is both idle and tbolilh. 



The Vertues. 



The French according to the name vie it for the detedts of the lunges, 

 but with what good fucceffe I know not. 



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