360 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



I haue (as you fee) inferted it among them, and giuen it that name may bee 

 moft fit for it, efpecially becaufe it is but an annuall plant. The lefler kindes 

 haue their names fufficiently exprefled in their titles. 



The Virtues. 



We know of no vfe thefe haue in Phyficke with vs, although if the firft 

 be Nil of Auicen, both he and Serapio fay it purgeth ftrongly. 



CHAP. LXXXVIII. 

 Stramonium. Thome-Apple. 



VNto the Bell-flowers, I muft adioyne three other plants, in the three feuerall 

 Chapters following, for fome affinity of the flowers : and firft of the Thorne- 

 Apples, whereof there are two efpeciall kindes, that is, a greater and a lefler, 

 and of each fome diuerfity, as mall be fet downe. 



i . Stramonium maius album. The great white flowred Thorne-Apple. 



The greater Thorne-Apple hath a great, ftrong, round greene ftalke, as high as any 

 man, if it be planted in good ground, and of the bignefle of a mans wreft almoft at the 

 bottome, fpreading out at the toppe into many branches, whereon ftand many very 

 large and broad darke greene leaues, cut in very deeply on the edges, and hauing ma- 

 nic points or corners therein : the flowers come forth at the ioynts, betweene two 

 branches towards the toppe of them, being very large, long, and wide open, ending 

 in fiue points or corners, longer and larger then any other Bell-flowers whatfoeuer : 

 after the flowers are paft, come the fruit, which are thorny long heads, more prickly 

 and greene then the leffer kindes, which being ripe openeth it felfe into three or foure 

 parts, hauing a number of flat blackifh feede within them : the roote is aboundant in 

 fibres, whereby it ftrongly taketh hold in the ground, but perifheth with the firft 

 frofts ; yet the feede that is fhed when the fruit is ripe, commeth vp the next yeare. 



2. Stramonium maius purpureum. 

 The great purple flowred Thorne-Apple. 



This purple Thorne-Apple is in largenefle of leaues, thicknefle and height of ftalke, 

 greatnefle and forme of flowers and fruit, euery way equall and correfpondent vnto 

 the former, the chiefe differences be thefe : the ftalke is of a darke purple colour ; the 

 leaues are of a darker greene, fomewhat purplifh, and the flowers are of light purple 

 or pale Doue colour, enclining to white, and whiter at the bottome. 



3. Stramonium minus feu Nux Mete I Jtore albo. 

 The fmaller Thorne-Apple with a white flower. 



The fmaller Thorne-Apple rifeth vp with one round ftalke, of the bignefle of a 

 mans finger, and neuer much aboue two foote high with vs, bearing a tew large, broad, 

 fmooth leaues thereon, without any branches at all, which are vneuenly rent or torne 

 about the edges, with many ribs, and fmaller veines running through them, yet lefler 

 by much then the greater kinde : at the ioynts where the leaues ftand, come forth 

 long and large white flowers, with broad or wide open brims, folded together before 

 their opening, as the other former Bell-flowers or Bindeweedes, but hauing their fiue 

 corners more pointed or horned then either they, or the former Thorne- Apples : af- 

 ter the flowers are paft, fucceed fmall fruit, rounder and harder, fet with harder, but 

 blunt prickes then the former, wherein is contained brownim yellow flat feede, 



fticking 



