302 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



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CHAP. LXVII. 

 Tragopogon. Goates beard. 



Muft in this place fet downe but two forts of Goates beards ; the one blew or afh- 

 colour, the other red or purple, and leaue the other kindes : fome to bee fpoken of 

 in the Kitchin Garden, and others in a Phyficall Garden. 



i. Tragopogon Jiore cceruleo. Blew Goates beard. 



All the Goates beards haue long, narrow, and fomewhat hollow whitifh greene 

 leaues, with a white line downe the middle of euery one on the vpperfide : the ftalke 

 rifeth vp greater and ftronger then the Vipers grafle, bearing at the toppe a great long 

 head or huske, compofed of nine or ten long narrow leaues, the fharpe points or ends 

 whereof rife vp aboue the flower in the middle, which is thicke and double, fome- 

 what broad and large fpread, of a blewifh afh-colour, with fome whitifh threads a- 

 mong them, (hutting or doling it felfe within the greene huske euery day, that it abi- 

 deth blowing, vntill about noone, and opening not it felfe againe vntill the next mor- 

 ning : the head or huske, after the flower is pad, and the feede neare ripe, openeth it 

 felfe ; the long leaues thereof, which clofed not before now, falling downe round a- 

 bout the rtalke, and mewing the feede, (landing at the firft clofe together, and the 

 doune at the toppe of them : but after they haue ftood a while, it fpreadeth it felfe 

 round, and is ready to be carried away with the winde, if it be not gathered : the feede 

 it felfe is long, round, and rough, like the feede of the Vipers grafle, but greater and 

 , blacker : the roote is long, and not very great, but perimeth as foone as it hath borne 

 feede, and fpringeth of the fallen feede, that yeare remaining greene all Winter, and 

 flowring the next yeare following : the whole yeeldeth milke as the former, but fome- 

 what more bitter and binding. 



2. Tragopogon purpureum. Purple Goates beard. 



There is little difference in this kind from the former, but that it is a little larger, both 

 in the leafe, and head that beareth the feed : the flowers alfo are a little larger, and fpread 

 more, of a darke reddifh purple colour, with fome yellow dull as it were caft vpon it, 

 efpecially about the ends : the roote perimeth in the like manner as the other. 



The Place. 



Both thefe haue been fent vs from the parts beyond the Seas, I haue had 

 them from Italy, where no doubt they grow naturally wilde, as the yellow 

 doth with vs : they are kept in our Gardens for their pleafant flowers. 



The Time. 



They flower in May and lune: the feede is ripe in luly. 



The Names. 



Their generall name is after the Greeke word Tragopogon, which is in La- 

 tine, Earbahirci: In Englilh, Goates beard; the head of feede when it is rea- 

 die to bee carried away with the winde, caufing that name for the refem- 

 blance : and becaufe the flower doth euery day clofe it felte at noone (as I 

 faid before) and openeth not againe vntill the next Sunne, fome haue fitly 

 called it, Goe to bed at noone. 



The Vertues. 



The rootes of thefe kindes are a little more bitter and more binding alfo 



then 



