120 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWEBS. 
“Tt farre exceedeth my skill to describe the beauty and 
excellencie of this rare plant, called Floramor,; and I 
thinke the pensil of the most curious painter will be at a 
stay, when he shall come to set it downe in his lively col- 
ors. But to colour it after my best manner, this I say, 
Hloramor hath a thicke, knobby root, whereon do grow 
many threddie strings; from which ariseth a thicke stalke, 
but tender and soft, which beginneth to divide itself into 
sundry branches at the ground, and so vpward, whereup- 
on doth grow many leaves, wherein does consist his beau- 
ty: for in few words, euerie leafe resembleth in colour 
the most faire and beautifull feather of a Parot, especially 
those feathers that are mixed with most sundry colours, 
as a stripe of red, and a line of yellow, a dash of white, 
and a rib of green colour, which I cannot with words set 
forth, such are the sundry mixture of colours that Nature 
hath bestowed, in her greatest jolitie, vpon this floure. 
The floure doth grow betweene the footstalks of those 
leaves and the body of the stalk or trunk, base, and of no 
moment in respect of the leaves, being as it were little 
chaffie husks of an ouerworne tawny colour; the seed is 
black, and shining like burnished horne.” 
A. hypochondriacus, — Prince’s Feather.—A hardy, 
well-known annual, four or five feet high, with numerous 
heads of purplish-crimson flowers, suitable for the shrub- 
bery. A. superbus is an improved variety of this ; flowers 
dark-red ; three to four feet high ; from June to September. 
A. melanch6élicus.—Love-lies-bleeding.—This is also a 
well-known hardy annual, from three to four feet high, 
with blood-red flowers, which hang in pendant spikes, 
and, at a little distance, look like streams of blood; in 
July and August. It is sometimes called, in France, 
“ Discipline des religieuses,’—the Nun’s Whipping Rope. 
There is a variety, with straw-colored flowers, but it is 
too mean-looking for the flower-garden. 
