372 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



are full ripe, are to be feen an innumerable company of white feed, ftanding out among 

 the fhort thrums, and do then eafily fall away with a little touching ; euery one of thefe 

 white feed hath as it were an hole halfe bored through therin : the root is a great bufh of 

 firings, fpreading in the ground, whereby it is ftrongly fattened, yet perifheth euery 

 yeare, after it hath giuen his feede. 



The Place. 



All thefe plants growe in the Eafterne Countries, as Perfia, Syria, Ara- 

 bia, &c. except the greateft, which hath been brought out of the Weft In- 

 dies, where it is much vfed, efpecially the feede : they are all, except it, 

 nourfed vp with much care in our Gardens, and yet in a backward or cold 

 yeare they will not thriue, for that they deiire much heate : but the greateft 

 doth alwayes giue ripe feede euery yeare. 



The Time. 



They beare their gallant tufts or fpikes for the moft part in Auguft, and 

 fome not vntill September. 



The Names. 



The name Amaranthus is giuen to all thefe plants, taken from the Greeke 

 word ap.apavTivo';, non marcefcens, or non fenefcens, that is, neuer waxing old, 

 and is often alfo impofed on other plants, who haue the fame property, that 

 is, that their flowers being gathered in a fit feafon, will retaine their natiue 

 colour a long time, as fhall be fhewed in the Chapter following. Diuers do 

 thinke the firft to be Phlox, or Flamma of Theophraftus. The third is called 

 Ge/ojja, or Celojia of Tragus. Spigelius in his Ifagoges faith, it is generally 

 taken to be Sophonia, whereof Plinie maketh mention ; and Lobel, to bee 

 the Perlians Theombroton of Plinie. The Italians, from whom I had it (by 

 the meanes of M r . Do6lor lohn More, as I haue had many other rare lim- 

 ples) call it, Blito di tre co/ori, A three coloured Elite. The fifth, which is 

 the greatert, hath been fent from the Weft Indies by the name of Quinua, 

 as Clufius reporteth. The name Flower-gentle in Englifh, and F lor amour, 

 which is the French, of Flos amoris, and PaJ/e velours, as is before faid, or 

 Veluet flower, according to the Italian, Flor veluto, are equally giuen to all 

 thefe plants, with their feuerall diftinctions, as they are exprefTed in their 

 titles. 



The Vertues. 



Diuers fuppofe the flowers of thefe plants doe helpe to ftay the fluxe 

 of bloud in man or woman, becaufe that other things that are red or pur- 

 ple doe performe the fame. But Galen difproueth that opinion very no- 

 tably, in lib. 2. & 4. de fimpl. medicament, facultatibus. 



CHAP. XCIII. 



Helichryfum^Jiue Amaranthus luteus. 

 Golden Flower-gentle, Goldilockes, or Gold-flower. 



THe propinquity of property (as I before faid) hath caufed the affinity in name, 

 and fo in neighbourhood in thefe plants, wherein there are fome diueriity; and 

 although they differ from them before in many notable points, yet they all a- 

 gree with themfelues in the golden, or filuer heads or tufts they beare ; and therefore I 



haue 





