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f unfurnished with a pretty sweet scent, which doth 

 add an increase of pleasure in those that make them 

 an ornament for wearing." 



Flower-de-luces also of many sorts, one kind 

 "being the Orris roots that are sold at the Apothe- 

 caries whereof sweet powders are made to lie among 

 garments" and "the greater Flag kind frequent 

 enough in this land" and which "well doth serve 

 to deck up both garden and house with Nature's 

 beauties." 



Chief of all was "Your Sable Flower, so fit for 

 a mourning habit that I think in the whole compass 

 of Nature's store there* is not a more pathetical." 



The hepatica, or noble liverwort, white, red, blue, 

 or purple, somewhat resembling violets; the 

 cyclamen, or sow-bread, a "flower of rare receipt 

 with flowers like unto red, or blush-colored violets 

 and leaves having no small delight in their pleasant 

 color, being spotted and circled white upon green" ; 

 the Leucoinum, or bulbous violet; Muscari, or musk 

 grape flower ; star-flowers of different sorts ; Phalan- 

 gium, or spiderwort; winter crowfoot, or wolfsbane; 

 the Christmas flower, "like unto a single white 

 rose"; bell-flowers of many kinds; yellow larkspur, 1 



1 Nasturtium. 



