The Garden of ' plcajant Flowers. 





The Place. 



All thefe Bell-flowers do grow in our Gardens, where they are cherifhed 

 tor the beautie of their flowers. The Couentry Bels doe not grow wilde in 

 any of the parts about Couentry, as I am credibly informed by a faithfull 

 Apothtx.ir\ dwelling there, called Mailer Brian Ball, but are nourfed in 

 Ciardens with them, as they are in other places. The latt groweth neere the 

 riuer of Canada, where the French plantation in America is feated. 



The Time. 



They flower from May vntill the end of luly or Augurt, and in the mean 

 time the feed is ripe : But the Peache-leafed Bell-flowers, for the moft part, 

 flower earlier then the other. 



The Names. 



The fid! is generally called Campanula Perjicifolia, in Englifh Peach-leafed 

 Bell-flower. The fecond is called Campanula maior, Campanula lafiefcens Py- 

 ramidalis, and Pyramidalis Lutetiana of Lobel, in Englifh, Great or Steeple 

 Bell-flower. The third is vfually called Viola Mariana, and of fome Viola 

 Marina. Lobel putteth a doubt whether it be not Medium of Diofcorides, 

 as Matthiolus and others doe thinke ; but in my opinion the thickneffe of 

 the roote, as the text hath it, contradicteth all the reft. We call it generally 

 in Engliih Couentry Bels. Some call it Marian, and fome Mercuries Violets. 

 The fourth and lift are called T'rachelium or Ceruicaria, of fome Vvularia, 

 becaufe many haue vfed it to good purpofe, for the paines of the Vvula, or 

 Throate : Yet there is another plant, called alfo by fome Vvularia, which 

 is HippogloJ/um, Horfe tongue, or Double tongue. The fixt hath his title to 

 defcipher it out fufficiently, as is declared. The feuenth is called Trachelium 

 minus, and Ceruicaria minor, of fome Saponaria altera ; in Englifh, Small 

 Throateworte, or Small Canterbury Bels. The laft hath his name in the ti- 

 tle, as it is called in France, from whence I receiued plants for my Garden 

 with the Latine name : but I haue giuen it in Englifh. 



The Vertues. 



The Peach-Bels as well as the others may fafely bee vfed in gargles and 

 lotions for the mouth, throate, or other parts, as occafion ferueth. The 

 rootes of many of them, while they are young, are often eaten in fallets 

 by diuers beyond the Seas. 



CHAP. LXXXVII. 



Campana Carulea fiue Convolvulus Ceeruleus. 

 Blew Bell flowers, or blew Bindeweede. 



THere are two other kindes of Bell-flowers, much differing from the Tribe 

 or Familie of the former, becaufe of their climbing or winding qualitie, 

 which I mult needes place next them, for the likenefle of the flowers, al- 

 though otherwife they might haue beene placed with the other clamberers that 

 tollow. Ot thefe there is a greater, and a lefTer, and of each likewife fome difference, 

 as fhall be declared. 



i . Con- 



