Chap. 1X. CE: GE §, 
etha tuft of fhining gold-coloured threds, which keep that colow 
(though gathered) along time , the feed is round and long, white 
and hard, but feldome ripens with us, and the root yearly dies s the 
feeds come to us from Spain, where much is planted, tor the ufeof the 
dyers of filk, fur 
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Amaranthus. 
a= Lower Gentle is chiefly of two forts, the greater, and the 
ASG) Jeffery of the firft there are fome diverfities, but mariy 
pL] more and better of the latter, of which there hath lace- 
msi ly been obferved twenty five varieties, all in flower to- 
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Amaranthus purpurews major. 
“He great Floramour hath a thick and tall crefted ftalk, with many 
~& reddih, large green leaves, the ftalk divided into many branches, 
bearing long {pikes of round hairy tufts, ofa reddifh purple colour, 
which are divided into feveral parts, wherein (when full ripe) great 
ftore of fmall white feeds is contained ; this is an old flower and com- 
mon, called by fome Country women, Love lies a bleeding ; we have 
now of this kind fome other varieties, that differ chiefly in the tufts 
or flowers, fome bigger, others leffer, fome purple mixed with green, 
others wholy of a whitith green colour; they are hardy, fowed in 
April, will flower in the end of F#/y, and perith with the firft frofts, 
Amaranthuus purpureus m'nor. 
“He leffer purple Flower Gentle cometh up with yellowith green 
-& leaves, a little reddifh, fomething broad at the ftalk, and fharp 
pointed, the ftalk fec with thefe leaves, rifeth about rwo foot high, 
branched at. the top, and bearing flowers, which are long, foft, and 
gentle tufts of hairs, many ftanding clofe together in form ofa Pyra- 
mis, of avexcellent rich deep fhining murrey purple colour, which ir 
will retain (after itis gathered) many moneths : the feeds of this (as 
of all the reft) are fall black and thining, and the roots perifh as thofe 
of the former. i’ 
Amaranthus diverforum colorum. 
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Ree Gentles of divers colours do little differ from the laft, either 
in leaves, ftalks, or feeds, only as their flowers are of deeper or 
fighter colours, fo are the leaves paler green, and leffer red than orher, 
the chiefeft difference is inthe flowers, which are not only of many 
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