320 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



will bee full fpeckled or fprinkled with white or liluer fpots, circlewife about the mid- 

 dle of the flowers, and fome will haue many fpecks or fpots vpon them difperfed : 

 all thefe flowers are not blowne at one time, but fome are flowring, when others are 

 decaying, fo that abiding long in their pride, they become of the more respeit : The 

 feede is blacke, as all the reft, and not to be diftinguifhed one from another : the roots 

 are fome long, and fome fmall and threddy, running vnder the vpper cruft of the earth. 



7. Armerius latifolius Jlore rubro faturo holofericeo. 

 Sweet Williams of a deepe red or murrey colour. 



The leaues of this kinde feeme to be a little larger, and the ioints a little redder 

 then the former, but in the flower confifteth the chiefeft difference, which is of a 

 deepe red, or murrey purple colour, like vnto veluet of that colour, without any fpots, 

 but fmooth, and as it were foft in handling, hauing an eye or circle in the middle, at 

 the bottome of the leaues. 



8. Armerius latifolius Jimp lex Jlore albo. 

 Single white fweete Williams. 



The white kinde differeth not in forme, but in colour from the former, the leaues 

 are not browne at all, but of a frefh greene colour, and the flowers are wholly white, 

 or elfe they are all one. 



The Place. 



Thefe for the moll: part grow wilde in Italic, and other places : we haue 

 them in our Gardens, where they are cherifhed for their beautifull varietie. 



The Time. 



They all generally doe flower before the Gilloflowers or Pinkes, or with 

 the firft of them : their feede is ripe in lune and luly, and doe all well abide 

 the extremitie of our coldeft winters. 



The Names. 



They all generally are called Armerius^ or Armeria, as fome doe write, 

 and diftinguifhed as they are in their titles : Yet fome haue called them Fe- 

 tonica agrejlis, and others Herba Tunica, Scarlatea, & Caryophyllus Jilueftris : 

 Wee doe in Englifh in mofl places, call the firft or narrower leafed kindes, 

 Sweet lohns, and all the reft Sweete Williams ; yet in fome places they call 

 the broader leafed kindes that are not fpotted, Tolmeiners, and London 

 tufts : but the fpeckled kinde is termed by our Englifh Gentlewomen, for 

 the moft part, London pride. 



The Vertues. 

 We haue not knowne any of thefe vfed in Phylicke. 



CHAP. LXXII. 

 Bellis. Daifie. 



THere be diuers forts of Daifies, both great and fmall, both fmgle and double, 

 both wilde growing abroade in the fieldes, and elfewhere, and manured grow- 

 ing only in Gardens : of all which I intend not to entreate, but of thofe that are 

 of moft beautie and refpet, and leaue the reft to their proper place. 



i. Bellis 



