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'The Garden of pica feint Flowers. 319 



CHAP. LXXI. 



Armerius. Sweet lohns ;uui fwcet William-. 



Hefe kindes of flowers as they come neerelt vnto Pinkes and Gilloflowers, 

 though man ill-lily differing, To it is fitteft to place them next vnto them in 

 a peculiar Chapter. 



i. Armerius angu/dfoliiis rubens /implex. Single red fweete lohns. 





The fweete lohn hath his leaues broader, (hotter and greener then any of the for- 

 mer Gilloflowers, but narrower then fweete Williams, fet by couples, at the 

 ioynts of the llalkes, which are fhorter then molt of the former, and not aboue a 

 foote and a halfe high, at the tops whereof rtand many fmall flowers, like vnto fmall 

 Pinkes, but (landing clofer together, and in fhorter huskes, made of fiue leaues, f mai- 

 ler then moll of them, and more deeply iagged then the Williams, of a red colour in 

 the middle, and white at the edges, but of a fmall or foft fent, and not all flowring at 

 once, but by degrees: the feede is blacke, fomewhat like vnto the feede of Pinkes, 

 the roote i> difperfed diuerfly, with many fmall fibres annexed vnto it. 



2. Armerius angujlifolius albus /implex. Single white fweet lohns. 



This white lohn differeth not in any thing from the former, but onely that the leafe 

 doth neuer change brownifh, and that the flower is of a faire white colour, without 

 any mixture. 



3. Ar menus angujlifolius duplex. Double fweet lohns. 



There is of both thofe former kindes, fome whofe flowers are once double, that is, 

 conliiting of two or three rowes of leaues, and the edges not fo deeply iagged ; not 

 differing in any thing elfe. 



4. Armerius latifolius Jimp lex Jtore rubro. 



Single red fweet Williams. 



The fweet Williams doe all of them fpread into many very long trayling branches, 

 with leaues lying on the ground, in the very like manner that the fweete lohns doe : 

 the chiefe differences betweene them are, that thefe haue broader, and darker greene 

 leaues, fomewhat brownifh, efpecially towards the points, and that the flowers ftand 

 thicker and clofer, and more in number together, in the head or tuft, hauing many fmall 

 pointed leaues among them, but harmleffe, as all men know; the colour of the flower is 

 of a deep red, without any mixture or fpot at all. 



5. Armerius latifolius Jiorc rubro multiplici. 



Double red fweete Williams. 



The double kinde differeth not from the fingle kinde of the fame colour, but only in 

 the doubleneffe of the flowers, which are with two rowes of leaues in euery flower. 



6. Armerius latifolius -varicgatus fine wr/icofar. 

 Speckled fweete Williams, or London pride. 



Thefe fpotted Williams are very like the firfl red Williams, in the forme or maner 

 of growing, hauing leaues as broade, and browne fometimes as they, the flowers Hand 

 as thicke or thicker, clurtring together, but of very variable colours : for fome 

 flowers will be of a fine delayed red, with few markes or fpots vpon them, and others 



will 



