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Chap, Vt CE REDS. 
S cabiofa flore albo. 
VV Hite flowered Scabiows hath many jagged green leaves , like 
Me that of the field, but leffér, bearing ftalks and flowers of rhe 
{ame fafhion , onely differing in colour, the flowers of this being 
white ; this hath been found wild in the fields, and thence for the ra- 
rity brought into Gardens, 
$ cabiof.1 rubra Auftriaca. 
Ed Scabious of Auftria, in leaves refembleth the Devils bit, but 
: fhorter, and onely fnipt about the edges, the flowers are of the 
Fathion of thofe of other kinds, in oneof a deep red colour, and in 
another of a fine bright purplifh red; che feeds area littlelong and 
round, fet with hairs at the ends, 
. Scabiofa rubra Indica: 
£d tndidn Scabions hath many jagged green leaves lyitig on the 
ground, from whence rife up divers ftalks, divided into feveral 
branches, bearing flowers like thofe of the former, but of various 
colours, fome being deep crimfon, others murrey purple, in both, 
fome deeper, and others paler ; and fome will have the outer leaves 
of adeeper or lighter murrey ; and the middle of the flower almoft 
white ; we have fome that bear their flowérs like tlie Childling Day- 
Re, marly {maller comihg out on long foot-ftalks of the fides of one 
larger ower ; and many other diverfities are obferved to procee 
from the feeds of this kind which are yearly fowed, for the Plant 
commonly dyeth after it hath given feeds, yer if ic ftandin a warm 
place, and the Winters prove milde , fome Plants will laft and bear 
flowers two or three years, Me 
The two firft Mower about Fuly ; the other, if they bear the firft 
rthey are fowed, it will be late in September fo that then from fuch 
Plants little good feed can be expected, but the beft way to be fure of 
good feeds, is about the beginning of Fune to remove the young 
Plants, to keep them back from running up to flower the firft year, 
‘which will caufe them to bring their fowersfooner the next , and fo 
have time to ripen the feeds,’ from which being fowed in April,many 
more varieties may be raifed than are before defcribed, efpecially from 
the flowers that are of the lighteft and moft mixed colours, the which 
are chiefly to be referved for chat purpofe, 
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