^22 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers, 





i . Bellis maior JJore albo plena. The great double white Daifie. 



The great Daifie with the double white flower, is in all things fo like vnto the great 

 tingle kinde, that groweth by the high wayes, and in diuers medowes and fields, that 

 there is no difference but in the flower, which is double. It hath many long, and fome- 

 what broad leaues lying vpon the ground, deepely cut in on both fides, fomewhat 

 like vnto an oaken leafe ; but thofe that are on the ftalkes are fhorter, narrower, and 

 not fo deeply cut in, but onely notched on the edges : the flowers at the toppe are (as 

 I faid) white and double, confiding of diuers rowes of leaues, being greater in com- 

 paffe then any of the double Daifies that follow, but nothing fo double of leaues. 



2. Bellis minor flore rubro Jimp lid. Single red Daifies. 



This fingle Daifie (like as all the reft of the fmall Daifies) hath many fmooth, 

 greene, round pointed leaues lying on the ground, a little fnipt about the edges ; from 

 among which rife many flender round foote-ftalkes, rather then ftalkes or ftems, about 

 an hand breadth high at the moft, and oftentimes not halfe fo high, bearing one flow- 

 er a peece, confifting of many fmall leaues, as a pale or border fet about a middle 

 thrumme : the leaues of this kinde are almoft wholly red, whereas in the wilde they 

 are white or whitifh, enclining to red on the edges, the middle being yellow in both 

 forts : the rootes are many fmall white threads or ftrings. 



3, Bellis minor hortenjis Jtore plena variorum color um. 

 Double Garden Daifies of diuers colours. 



The leaues of all the double Daifies are in forme like vnto the fingle ones, but that 

 they are fmaller, and little or nothing fnipt or notched about the edges : the fmall 

 ftalkes likewife are fmaller and lower, but bearing as double flowers as any that growe 

 on the ground, being compofed of many fmall leaues, thicke thruft together, of diuers 

 colours ; for fome are wholly of a pure white, others haue a little red, either difperfed 

 vpon the white leaues, or on the edges, and fometimes on the backes of the leaues : 

 fome againe feeme to be of a whitifh red, or more red then white, when as indeede 

 they are white leaues difperfed among the red ; others of a deepe or darke red colour, 

 and fome are fpeckled or ftriped with white and red through the whole flower : and 

 fome the leaues will bee red on the vpperfide, and white vnderneath ; and fome alfo 

 (but thofe are very rare) are of a greenifh colour. 



4. Bellis minor hortenjis prolifera. Double double Daifies or childing Daifies. 



There is no difference either in leafe or roote in this kinde from the former double 

 Daifies : the chiefeft variety confifteth in this, that it beareth many fmall double flow- 

 ers, (landing vpon very fhort ftalkes round about the middle flower, which is vfually 

 as great and double as any of the other double kindes, and is either wholly of a deepe 

 red colour, or fpeckled white and red as in fome of the former kindes, or elfe greenifh, 

 all the fmall flowers about it being of the fame colour with the middlemoft. 



5. Bellis caruleajiue Globularia. Blew Daifies. 



The likenefle and affinity that this plant hath with the former, both in the forme 

 of leafe and flower, as alfo in the name, hath caufed me to infert it, and another rare 

 plant of the fame kinde, in this place, although they be very rare to be met with in our 

 Englifh Gardens. This beareth many narrower, fhorter, and blacker greene leaues 

 then the former, lying round about vpon the ground ; among which rife vp flender, 

 but ftiffe and hard ftalks, halfe a foot high or more, fet here and there with fmall leaues, 

 and at the top a fmall round head, compofed of many fmall blew leaues, fomewhat like 

 vnto the head of a Scabious : It hath bin found likewife with a white head of flowers : 

 the roote is hard and ftringie : the whole plant is of a bitter tafte. 



6. Globularia 



