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ping or fpreading vnder the toppe or cruft of the ground, fome of one colour, fome of 

 another, and many of diuers colours: As I haue formerly done with the Gilloflowers, 

 fo muft I doe with thefe that are entertained in our Gardens, onely giue you the de- 

 fcriptions of fome three or foure of them, according to their variety, and the names of 

 the reft, with their diftinclions. 



i. Garyophyllus minor Jiluejtris multiplex & Jimp lex. 

 Double and fingle Pinkes. 



The fingle and double Pinkes are for forme and manner of growing, in all parts like 

 vnto the Gilloflowers before defcribed, fauing onely that their leaues are fmaller and 

 fhorter, in fome more or lefle then in others, and fo are the flowers alfo : the fingle 

 kindes confiding of fiue leaues vfually (feldome fix) round pointed, and a little fnipt 

 for the moft part about the edges, with fome threads in the middle, either crooked or 

 ftraight: the double kindes being lefTer, and lefle double then the Gilloflowers, hauing 

 their leaues a little fnipt or endented about the edges, and of diuers feuerall colours, 

 as mail hereafter be fet downe, and of as fragrant a fent, efpecially fome of them as 

 they : the rootes are long and fpreading, fomewhat hard and wooddy. 



2. Caryophyllus plumarius. Feathered or iagged Pinkes. 



The iagged Pinkes haue fuch like ftalkes and leaues as the former haue, but fome- 

 what fhorter and fmaller, or grafle-like, and of a whitifh or grayifh greene colour like- 

 wife : the flowers ftand in the like manner at the toppes of the ftalkes, in long, round, 

 flender, greene huskes, confifting of fiue leaues, very much cut in on the edges, and 

 iagged almoft like a feather, of a light red, or bright purple colour, with two white 

 threads ftanding in the middle, crooked like a home at the end, and are of a very good 

 fent. Some of thefe haue not thofe two crooked threads or homes in the middle, but 

 haue in their ftead many fmall threads, not crooked at all : the feedes of them all are 

 like vnto the feedes of Gilloflowers, or the other Pinkes, that is, fmall, blacke, long, 

 and flat : the rootes are fmall and wooddy likewife. 



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 3. Caryophyllus plumarius albus orbe rubro Jiue Stellatus, Starre Pinkes. 



Of this kinde there is another fort, bearing flowers almoft as deeply cut or iagged 

 as the former, of a faire white colour, hauing a ring or circle of red about the bottome 

 or lower part of the leaues, and are as fweete as the former : this being fowne of feede 

 doth not giue the ftarre of fo bright a red colour, but becommeth more dunne. 



4. Caryophyllus plumarius Aujtriacus Jiue Superba Aujiriaca. 

 The feathered Pinke of Auftria. 



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 This kinde of Pinke hath his firft or lower leaues, fomewhat broader and greener 



then any of the former Pinkes, being both for breadth and greennefTe more like vnto 

 the Sweete lohns, which fhall bee defcribed in the next Chapter : the leaues on the 

 ftalkes are fmaller, ftanding by couples at euery ioynt, at the toppes whereof ftand 

 fuch like iagged flowers as the laft defcribed, and as large, but more deeply cut in or 

 iagged round about, fome of them of a purplifh colour, but the moft ordinary with vs 

 are pure white, and of a moft fragrant fent, comforting the fpirits and fenfes a farre off: 

 the feedes and rootes are like vnto the former. Some haue miftaken a kinde of wilde 

 Campion, growing in our Woods, and by the paths fides in Hornfie Parke, and other 

 places, to be this feathered Pinke : but the flowers declare the difference fufficiently. 



5. Caryophyllus minor repens Jimp lex & multiplex, 

 Single and double matted Pinkes. 



The matted Pinke is the fmalleft, both for leafe and flower of all other Pinkes that 

 are nourifned in Gardens, hauing many fhort and fmall graflie greene leaues vpon the 



ftalkes, 



