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llalkes, which as they grow and lye vpon the ground (and not (landing fo vpright as 

 the former) doe take roote againe, whereby it quickly 1 preadeth, and couereth a great 

 deale of ground in a little t'pucc : the flowers are Imall and round, a little fnipt about 

 the edges, whereof fome are white, and Tome red, and Tome are white fpotted with 

 red, and fome red fpotted with white, all of them being Tingle flowers. But there is 

 another of this kinde, not differing in leafe, but in flower : tor that the first flowers arc 

 but once double, or of two rowes of leaues, of a fine reddifh colour, fpotted with 

 iilucr fpots : but thole that follow, are fo thicke and double, that they often- 

 times doe breake the pod or huske ; being not altogether of fo dcepc a red colour, 

 but more pale. 



6. Caryophyllui Mediterraneus Jiue Mar inns maior. 

 Great Sea Gilloflower or Great Thrift. 



Vnto thefe kindes of Pinkes I mull needs adde, not only our ordinary Thrift (which 

 is more frequent in gardens, to empale or border a knot, becaufe it abideth greenc 

 Winter and Summer, and that by cutting, it may grow thick, and be kept in what form 

 one lilt, rather then for any beautie of the flowers) but another greater kindc, which 

 is of as great beautie and delight almoll as any of the former Pinkes, as well for that 

 the leaues are like vnto Gilloflowers, being longer and larger then any Pinkes, and of 

 a whitifh greene colour like vnto them, not growing long or by couples vpon the 

 ftalkes as Pinkes and Gilloflowers doe, but tufting clofe vpon the ground, like vnto 

 the common Thrift : as alfo that the ftalkes, rifing from among the leaues (being fome- 

 times two toote high (as I haue obferued in my garden) are yet fo (lender and weake, 

 that they are fcarce able to beare the heads of flowers, naked or bare, both of leaues 

 and ioynts, fauing only in one place, where at the ioynt each ftalke hath two fmall and 

 very (hort leaues, not riling vpwards as in all other Gilloflowers, Pinkes, and other 

 herbes, but growing downewards) and doe beare each of them a tuft or vmbell of 

 fmall purplilh, or blulh coloured flowers, at the toppes of them Handing fomewhat 

 like vnto fweete Williams, but more roundly together, each flower confifting of fiuc 

 fmall, round, Itiffe or hardifh leaues, as if they were made of paper, the bottome or 

 middle being hollow, not blowing all at once as the ordinary Thrift, but for the moft 

 part one after another, not (hewing vfually aboue ibure or fiue flowers open at one 

 time (fo farre as I could obferue in the plants that I kept) fo that it was long before the 

 whole tult of flowers were paft ; but yet the hoter and dryer the time was, the fooner 

 it would be gone : the feede I haue not perfectly obferued, but as I remember, it was 

 fomewhat like vnto the feede of Scabious ; I am fure nothing like vnto Gilloflowers 

 or Pinkes : the roote is fomewhat great, long and hard, and not fo much fpreading in 

 the ground as Gilloflowers or Pinkes. 



Caryophyllui Marinas. Thrift, or Sea Culhion. 



Our common Thrift is well knowne vnto all, to haue many (hort and hard greene 

 leaues, fmaller then many of the grafles, growing thicke together, and fpreading 

 vpon the ground : the llalkes are naked of leaues a fpanne high, bearing a fmall tuft of 

 light purple, or blulh coloured flowers, (landing round and clofe thrufting together. 



Double Pinkes. Single Pinkes. 



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THe double white Pinke is onely ' I ^He (ingle white ordinary Pinke 

 with more leaues in it then the fin- hath a lingle white flower of fiue 



gle, which maketh the difference. *~ leaues, finely iagged about the 

 The double red Pinke is in the fame edges. 



manner double, differing from the (ingle The (ingle red Pink is like the white, but 



of the fame colour. that the leaues are not fo much iagged, and 



The double purple Pinke differeth not the flower is of a pale purplifh red colour, 



from 



