The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 







euery where wilde on the bankes of fields abroad) let vpon the frnall trayling br.in- 

 chcs, which growe aboue two or three foote high : from tlit- middle of thefe bran- 

 ches, and fo vnto the toppes of them, come forth the flowers at the ioynts with the 

 leaues, folded together at the firft into fiue plaites, which open into fo many corners, 

 of a moll excellent faire skie coloured blew (fo pleafant to behold, that often it ama- 

 zeth the fpectator) with white bottomes, and yellowilli in the middle, which turne 

 into fmall round white heads, wherein are contained finall blackilh cornered feede, 

 fomewhat like the former, but fmaller: the roote is fmall and threddy, perifhing as 

 the former euery yeare: this neuer windeth it felfe about any thing, but leancth by 

 reafon of the weaknefle of the branches, and dyeth euery yeare after feede time, and 

 not to be fowne againe vntill the next Spring. 



5. Convolvulus purpureus Spiceefolius. Lauander leafed Bindeweede. 



This fmall purple Bindeweede, where it naturally groweth, is rather a plague then 

 a pleafure, to whatfoeuer groweth with it in the fields; yet the beauty of the flower 

 hath caufed it to be receiued into Gardens, bearing longer and fmaller leaues then the 

 laft, and luch like fmall Bell-flowers, but of a fad purple colour: the roote is liuing, 

 as the common kinds are, and fpringeth againe where it hath been once fowne, with- 

 out feare of perifhing. 



The Place. 



The firft two greater kindes haue beene fent vs out of Italy, but whether 

 they had them from the Eaft Indies, or from fome of the Eafterne Coun- 

 tries on this fide, wee know not : but they thriue reafonable well in our 

 Country, if the yeare be any thing kindly. The next came out of America, 

 as his name teftifieth. The lefler blew kinde groweth naturally in many 

 places both of Spaine and Portugall (from whence I firft receiued feedes 

 from Guillaume Boel, heretofore remembred.) The laft groweth wilde in 

 the fields, about Dunmowe in EflTex, and in many other places of our 

 owne Countrey likewife. 



The Time. 



The three firft greater kindes flower not vntill the end of Auguft, or 

 thereabouts, and the feede ripeneth in September, if the colds and frofts 

 come not on too fpeedily. The lefler kindes flower in lune and luly. 



The Names. 



The firft is called of fome Campana Lazura, as the Italians doe call it, or 

 Campana cerrulea, of others Convolvulus caruleus motor, Jiue Indicus, and Flos 

 noftis. Of fome Nil Auicennee. The fecond is called Convolvulus trifolius, 

 or heJeraceus, for the diftinction of the leaues. In Englilh wee call them ey- 

 ther Great blew Bell flowers, or more vfually, Great blew Bindeweedes. 

 That of America is diuerfly called by diuers. It is called Quamoclit of the 

 Indians, and by that name it was fent to loachinus Camerarius out of Italy, 

 where it is fo called ftill, as Fabius Columna fetteth it downe, and as my 

 felfe alfo can witnefle it, from thence being fo fent vnto mee : but Andraeas 

 Czfalpinus calleth it, luj'minum folio Millefolij, fuppofing it to be a lafmine. 

 Camerarius faith, it may not vnfitly be called Convolvulus tenuifolius, ac- 

 counting it a kinde of Bindeweede. Columna entituleth it Convolvulus pen- 

 natus txoticus rarior, and faith it cannot bee referred to any other kinde of 

 plant then to the Bindeweedes. Hee that publilhed the Curee pofteriores of 

 Clulius, giueth it the name of lafmnum Americanum, which I would doe 

 alfo, if I thought it might belong to that Family ; but feeing the face and 

 torme of the plant better agreeing with the Bindeweedes or Bell-flowers, 



I haue 



