The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



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dens. The fecond, as Chilius faith, in Aultria, from whence alfo (as I take 

 it) the greater came, and arc both in the gardens of thofc, that are curious 

 <>hl'miers of thefc delight-. 



The Time. 



The firrt is in its pride for the leaues all the Spring and Summer, yeel- 

 ding his hulli in lune. The other giue their feather-like fprigs in luly and 

 Augull, and quickly (as I faid) are fhed, if they be not carefully gathered. 



The Names. 



The firrt is called by Lobel Gramen fu Icatum, or Jlriatum album; of others 

 Gramen piflttm. The French call it Aiguellettes (farmes, of the fafhion that 

 their Enfignes, Pennons, or Streamers vfed in wars were of, that is, like 

 vnto a party coloured curtaine. In Englim vfually Ladies laces, and Pain- 

 ted Grafle. The firft of the other two is called Gramen plumarium or plumo- 

 fum, and minus is added for the diftinclion of it. Clufius calleth it Spartum 

 Aujlriacum, of the likenefle and place where he found it. The laft is called 

 Gramen plumarium, or plumofum maius, The greater Feather-Grafle. 



The Vertues. 



Thefe kindes of Grafles are not in any time or place that I doe heare of 

 applyed to any Phylkall vfe ; and therefore of them I will fay no more : 

 but here I will end the prime part of this worke. 



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