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iffereth onely from the fingle field popy in the doublenefs of the 
pat is of hes efteem ie but the rareft of all the reft, is one lately 
difcovered, differing onely from the laft, in that che flowers are of a 
fine Gold yellow colour, | 
They flower in Fune, and yield ftore of feeds, which falling of 
themfelves, or gathered, and fowed in the Spring , willcome up and 
profper in any place , the party-coloured red, the ftriped Scarlet, the 
{mall double Scarlet , and efpecially the yellow, are thofe moft 
— efteemed, 
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Nigella. 
He Fensel-flower hath fome few varieties, whofe feeds are 
preferved, and yearly fowed in Gardens, the Plantis fo 
common and well known, that it needeth little deferip- 
tion, the firft is that fingle kind called = | 
Nigella Fii{panica. 
Sih Nigella hath leaves like Fennel, the flowers are fingle, con- 
fifting ot five larger leaves than thofe of rhe other forts > com- 
monly of a bleak blew colour, witha green head in the middle, com- 
paféd about with little gaping hollow. leaves and a yellow line 3 after 
¢ flowers arepaft, the head grows bigger, with a crown on the top 
Spread like a Star; the feeds are round and of a yellowith green colour, 
Nigella flore duplict. . 
He double Nigella hath leaves like the former , the flowers confift- 
_ ing of three or four rows of fmaller leaves » one lying under 
‘another , of a pale blew colour in one » and white in another; the 
feeds are black, contained in round heads, 
They flower in the end of Fyne or beginning of Fu/y, and are year-. 
ly raifed from feeds , which fowed in the Spring are apt to come up, 
and require {mall attendance, 
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