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CHAP, vViil. 
Cyanus. 
eg Orn- flower, or Blew-bottles, are common in every 
5, corn-field, efpecially thofe with blew flowers, of 
which kind many diverfities are raifed from feeds, 
{. differing in colour, tor fome of them will be blew, 
Fa like chat of the field, other white, bluth, fadder or 
ssi lighter, purple, brighter or darker, red, or elfe of 
— thefe colours mixed, as edges whice, the reft blew 
or purple, or the flower white, edged with blew or, purple, in fome 
ftriped, fpotted, or divided, half the flower of one colour,and the 
other of another, and often the middle of the flower of a fadder and 
deeper colour thanthe reft, After the flowers are patt; the fcaly 
heads contain (wrapped in downy matter) {mall hard white thining 
feeds, which muft be preferved and fowed at the Spring, for the roots 
yearly perifh, 3 | | 
_ There is another fort more rare than any of the former, called the 
Sultans flower, thefeeds are {maller and blacker than thofe of the 
former, the plants bigger in all the parts thereof, the flowers are lar- 
ger, and of a purplifh blufh-colour in one, and in another Snow-white, 
more beautiful than any of the former ; theroots yearly perifh, and 
the feeds not very apt to come up, or the Plant to profper, bue 
requireth to be often watered, andto be nurfed up ina hot bed, 
We have another called the spanifh Corn-flower, which rambles 
and takes up more ground than can well be {pared for fo poor a 
Plant’; the flowers are of a pale purplith blufh-colour, buc not fo 
fair nor beautiful as the laft , this feeds, and yearly dies as the 
reft doe, 
The firt kind fower in Fane and Fuly, the two laft "ok untill 
Auguft , the Sultans flower is of fome efteem, but the reft are little 
valued, yet by fuch as want beteer things entertained, 
‘ We have another Plant which Mr. Parkinfon in his flerilece fers 
forth by the name of Facea marina Batica, Spanifh [ca Knabweed. 
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then rarewith him, but now common in almoft every Garden, and is 
nowther than that rambling lafting Plant, vulgarly called the &reat 
Cyanus, Or Blew-bottle, 7 
© Carthamus Sativus, ba ftard Saffron,is an annual, yearly raifed from 
feeds, it hath broad green leaves, a round hard ftalk, branched at the 
top, and each branch bearing one reat {caly head, out of which com- 
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