The Garden of pleafnnt Flowers. 383 



The Time. 



They flower in lune and luly, and fome in Auguft, their fcede becom- 

 ming ripe quickly after. 



The Names. 



Onely the name Digitalis, is of all Writers giuen vnto thcfe plants ; for 

 it is not knowne to bee remembred of any of the old Authors. Wee call 

 them generally in Englifh, Foxegloue ; but fome (as thinking it to bee too 

 foolilh a name) doe call them Finger-flowers, becaufe they are like vnto the 

 ringers of a gloue, the ends cut off. 



The Vertues. 



Foxegloues are not vfed in Phyficke by any iudicious man that I know ; 

 yet fome Italians of Bononia, as Camerarius faith, in his time vfed it as a 

 wound herbe. 



CHAP. XCVIII. 



Verbafcum. Mullein. 

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THere be diuers kindes of Mullein, as white Mullein, blacke Mullein, wooddy 

 Mullein, bafe Mullein, Moth Mullein, and Ethiopian Mullein, all which to 

 dirtinguilh or to defcribe, is neither my purpofe, nor the intent of this worke, 

 which is to ftore a Garden with flowers of delight, and fequefter others not worthy 

 of that honour. Thofe that are fit to bee brought to your confideration in this place, 

 are firft, the Blattarias, or Moth Mulleins, and then the wooddy Mullein, which o- 

 thcrwife is called French Sage, and laftly, the Ethiopian Mullein, whole beauty con- 

 (ifteth not in the flower, but in the whole plant ; yet if it pleafe you not, take it accor- 

 ding to his Country for a Moore, an Infidell, a Slaue, and fo vfe it. 



i. Blattaria lutea odorata. Sweete yellow Moth Mullein. 



The yellow Moth Mullein whofe flower is fweete, hath many hard grayifh greene 

 leaues lying on the ground, fomewhat long and broad, and pointed at the end : the 

 ftalks are two or three foot high, with fome leaues on them, & branching out from the 

 middle vpwards into many long branches, ftored with many fmall pale yellow flow- 

 ers, of a pretty fweete fent, fomewhat itronger then in the other forts, which feldome 

 giueth feede, but abideth in the roote, liuing many yeares, which few or none of the 

 others doe. 



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2. Blattaria lutea maitr Jiue Hifpanica. The great yellow Moth Mullein. 



This Spanifh kinde hath larger and greener leaues then the former, and rounder 

 and larger then the next that followeth : the ftalke is higher then in any of the Moth 

 Mulleins, being for the moft part foure or flue foote high, whereon toward the toppe 

 growe many goodly yellow flowers, confifting of fiue leaues, as all the reft doe, not 

 fo thicke fet as the former, but much larger, with fome fmall purplifh threads in the 

 middle: the ends whereof are fafhioned fomewhat like as if a Flie were creeping vp 

 the flower, which turne into round heads, fometimes two or three or more Handing 

 together, but vfually one, wherein lye fmall duskie feed : the roote is not great nor full 

 ot threads, and doth periih moft vfually hauing giuen feede, except the Winter bee 

 very milde. 



3. Blattaria 



