326 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Time. 



The firft and fecond flower earlier then the lart, for that it flowreth not 

 vntill September or O6tober, (vnleffe it be not apt to beare the firft yeare 

 as I before faid) fo that many times (if none be more forward) it perifheth 

 without bearing ripe feede, whereby we are oftentimes to feeke new feede 

 from our friends in other parts. 



The Names. 



They haue all one generall name of Scabious, diftinguifhed eyther by 

 their flower, or place of growing, as in their titles : yet the laft is called of 

 diuers Scabioja exotica, becaufe they thinke the name Indica, is not truely 

 impofed vpon it. 



The Vertues. 



Whether thefe kindes haue any of the vertues of the other wilde kinds, 

 I know none haue made any experience, and therefore I can fay no more of 

 them. 



CHAP. LXXIIII. 

 Cyanus. Corne flower, or blew Bottles. 



VNder the name of Cyanus are comprehended, not onely thofe plants which 

 from the excellent blew colour of their flowers (furnifhing or rather peftering 

 the Corne fieldes) haue peculiarly obtained that name, and which doth much 

 vary alfo, in the colour of the flowers, as fhall be fhewed ; but fome other plants alfo for 

 their neere refemblance, but with feuerall diftinftions. The Cyanus maior, Ptarmica 

 Aujlriaca, Ptarmica Imperati, and many others which may be adioyned vnto them, do 

 more fitly belong to the Garden of Simples, whereunto I leaue them, and will here 

 only entreate of thofe that may moft pleafe the delight of our Gentle Florifts, in that 

 I labour and ftriue, to furnifh this our garden, with the chiefeft choyfe of natures 

 beauties and delights. 



i . Cyanus vu/garis diuer forum colorum. Corne flower of diuers colours. 



All thefe forts of Corne flowers are for the moft part alike, both in leaues and 

 flowers one vnto another for the forme : the difference betweene them confifteth in 

 the varying colour of the flowers : For the leaues are long, and of a whitifh greene 

 colour, deeply cut in on the edges in fome places, fomewhat like vnto the leaues of a 

 Scabious : the ftalkes are two foote high or better, befet with fuch like leaues but fmal- 

 ler, and little or nothing flit on the edges : the toppes are branched, bearing many fmal 

 greene fcaly heads, out of which rife flowers, confifting of fiue or fixe, or more long 

 and hollow leaues, fmall at the bottome, and opening wider and greater at the brims, 

 notched or cut in on the edges, and ftanding round about many fmall threds in the 

 middle : the colours of thefe flowers are diuers, and very variable ; for fome are 

 wholly blew, or white, or blufh, or of a fad, or light purple, or of a light or dead red, 

 or of an ouerworne purple colour, or elfe mixed of thefe colours, as fome, the edges 



h white, and the reft blew or purple, or the edges blew or purple, and the reft of the 

 flower white, or ftriped, fpotted, or halfed, the one part of one colour, and the other 

 of another, the threds likewife in the middle varying in many of them ; for fome 

 will haue the middle thrume of a deeper purple then the outer leaues, and fome haue 

 white or blufh leaues, the middle thrume being reddifh, deeper or paler : After the 

 flowers are part, there come fmall, hard, white and finning feede in thofe heads, wrap- 

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