FEGR : Book I. 
will not bear at all, therefore to help ic forward, many with good 
fuccefs fet the Pot with this Plant up to the top ina Hot bed, 
where Melons or choice Annuals have been fowed, as foon as they 
are taken off or removed, 
GHAP, ~Vi. 
P45 Col croundin Winter, andrife again from the roots at 
==9} the Spring ; and then conclude with fome {mall 
that for the beauty of their flowers are preferved in 
Fraxinella flore rubente. 
weiee Dittany with a reddifh flower rifeth up with divers round 
A) hard woody brownifh ftalks, about two foot high, the lower 
parts whereof are furniihed with many winged leaves, refembling 
thofe of Liquorifh,- or ofa young Afb, confifting of feven, nine, or 
elevenfet together, fomewhat large andJong, finely purled about 
the edges, of a fad green colour, and ftrong refinous {cent ; the up- 
per part of the ftalks are furnifhed with many flowers, growing ina 
{pike at diftances one above another, each containing five long 
leaves, whereof four ftand on the two fides bending upwards, the 
- fifth hanging down, turning up again the end, of afaintor pale red 
colour, ftriped through every leaf witha deeper red, having a taffe] - 
in the middle made of five or fix long purplith threds, that bow down 
with the lower leaf, and turn up the ends again, witha little freeze 
or thrum at the ends of each of them: the flowers are fucceeded by 
. hard ftiffclammy husks, horned or pointed at the ends, fomething 
like thofe of the Columbine, but bigger, rougher, and harder, where- 
in iscontained round fhining black feeds: the root is white, ver 
large and {preading under ground ; the whole Plant throughout all 
the parts thereof hath that ftrong refinous fcent, not fo pleafant to 
the Nofe, as the flowers are delightful to the Eye, 
Fraxinella flore rubro. 
B4 ftard Dittany with ared flower differeth from the former, in that 
it is bigger in all che parts thereof, the.leaves of a darker green 
colour, the flowers grow ina longer fpike, and of a deeper red co- 
our; of this kind there is another raifed from the feeds of this, 
whofe a thicker on the ftalk than any other kind, and are 
of a deep bloudy red colour, 
Fraxinella 
