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then the yellow kinde exported in the Kitchin Garden; and therefore tit- 

 ter for medicine then for meate, but yet is vied as the yellow kindt- is, which 

 i more n't tor meate then medicine. The diltilled water is good to walh 

 old fores and wounds. 



CHAP. LXVII I. 

 Flos Africanus. The French Marigold. 



OF the French or African Marigolds there are three kindes as principall, and of 

 each of them both with Jingle and double flowers : of thefe, fome diucr- 

 lity is obferued in the colour of the flowers, as well as in the tbrme or large- 

 tidlc, to that as you may here fee, I haue exprefled eight differences, and Fabius Co- 

 lumna nine or ten, in regard hee maketh a diuerlity of the paler and deeper yellow co- 

 lour : and although the letter kinde, becaufe of its euill fent, is held dangerous, yet for 

 the beauty of the flower it rindeth roome in Gardens. 



i . Flos Africanus maior fine maximus multiplex. 

 The great double French Marigold. 



This goodly double flower, which is the grace and glory of a Garden in the time of 

 his beauty, rifeth vp with a (freight and hard round greene (talke, hauing fome crefts 

 or edges all along the ilalke, befet with long winged leaues, euery one whereof is like 

 vnto the leate of an A(h, being compofed of many long and narrow leaues, fnipt about 

 the edges, Handing by couples one againft another, with an odde one at the end, of a 

 darke or full greene colour : the llalke rifeth to be three or foure fbote high, and diui- 

 deth it felfe from the middle thereof into many branches, let with fuch like leaues to 

 the toppes of them, euery one bearing one great double flower, of a gold yellow co- 

 lour aboue, and paler vnderneath, yet fome are of a pale yellow, and fome betweene 

 both, and all thefe riling from one and the fame feede : the flower, before it be blowne 

 open, hath all the leaues hollow ; but when it is flill blowne open, it fpreadeth it felfe 

 larger then any Prouince Rote, or equall vnto it at the leall, if it be in good earth, and 

 rifeth out of a long greene huske, ftriped or furrowed, wherein after the flower is part, 

 (which llandeth in his full beauty a moneth, and oftentimes more, and being gathe- 

 red, may be preferued in his full beauty for two moneths after, if it be fet in water) 

 Itandeth the feede, fet thicke and clofe together vpright, which is blacke, fome- 

 what flat and long : the roote is full of fmall ttrings, whereby it ftrongly comprehen- 

 deth in the ground : the flower of this, as well as the lingle, is of the very fmell of new 

 waxe, or of an honie combe, and not of that poifonfull fent of the fmaller kindes. 



2. Flos Africanus maior fimplex. The great (ingle French Marigold. 



This tingle Marigold is in all things fo like vnto the former, that it is hard to di- 

 fcerne it from the double, but by the flowers, onely the ftalke will be browner then 

 the double ; and to my bell obferuation, hath and doth euery yeare rife from the feede 

 of the double flower: fo that when they are in flower, you may fee the difference (or 

 not much before, when they are in bud) this lingle flower euer appearing with thrums 

 in the middle, and the leaues, which are the border or pale (landing about them, fhew- 

 ing hollow or rillulous, which after lay themfelues flat and open (and the double 

 flower appearing with all his leaues folded clofe together, without any thrum at all) 

 and are of a deeper or paler colour, as in the double. 



3. Flos Africanus fijlulofo flore Jimp lex & multiplex. 

 Single and double French Marigolds with hollow leafed flowers. 



As the former two greatelt forts haue rifen from the feede of one and the fame (I 



meane 





