3 go The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



CHAP. CI. 

 Thlafpi Creticum. Candy Tufts. 



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F the many forts of Thlajpi it is not the fcope of this worke to relate, I will fe- 

 Ie6l but onely two or three, which for their beautie are fit to bee inferted into 

 this garden. 



Thlajpi Creticum vmbellatum flore albo & purpureo. 

 Candy Tufts white and purple. 



This fmall plant rifeth feldome aboue a foote and a halfe high, hauing fmall, narrow, 

 long and whitifh greene leaues, notched or dented with three or foure notches on each 

 fide, from the middle to the point-wards; from among which rife vp the ftalkes, 

 branched from the bottome almoft into diuers fmall branches, at the toppes whereof 

 ftand many fmall flowers, thick thruft together in an vmbell or tuft, making them feeme 

 to be fmall, round, double flowers of many leaues, when as euery flower is fingle, and 

 ftandeth a part by it felfe, of a faire white colour in fome plants, without any fpot, and 

 in others with a purplifh fpot in the centre or middle, as if fome of the middle leaues 

 were purple ; in others agane the whole flower is purplifh all ouer, which make a pretty 

 fhew in a garden : the feede is contained in many fmall and flat feed veflels, which ftand 

 together in an vmbell, as the flowers did, in which are contained fomewhat reddifh 

 feede, like vnto fome other forts of Thlafpi, called Treakle Muftards : the roote is fmall 

 and hard, and perifheth euery yeare hauing giuen feede. 



TUafpi Man- We haue another fort, whofe leaues before it fendeth forth any ftalke, are a little 



num Barticum. toot h ec i 5 or finely dented about the edges, and brancheth not fo much out, but carryeth 



an vmbell of purplifh flowers like vnto the former, and paler yellow feede. 



The Place. 



Thefe doe grow in Spaine and Candie, not farre from the Sea fide. 



The Time. 



Thefe Thlafpi giue not their flowers vntill the end of lune, or beginning 

 of luly, and the feed is ripe foone after. 





 The Names. 



The firft is named by fome, Draba, or Arabis, as Dodonsus, but Draba 

 is another plant differing much from this. Wee call one fort, Thlafpi Creti- 

 cum, and the other Thlafpi Baticum marinum, becaufe the one came from 

 Spaine, and the other from Candy; we giue it in Englifh, the name of 

 Tufts, becaufe it doth fit the forme of the flowers beft, although ordinarily 

 all the Thlafpi are Englifhed Wilde Muftardes. 



The Vertues. 



Candy, or Spanifh Tufts, is not fo fharpe biting in tafte, as fome other 

 of the Thlafpies are, and therefore is not to be vfed in medicines, where 

 Thlafpi mould be in the ftead thereof. 



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