liaue it abide close thereunto, you must tye it, or 
else it will lye vpon the ground ;) the leaues are 
smooth, greene, and as round as the Penniwort that 
groweth on the ground, without any cut or incisure 
therein at all in any part, the stalkes whereof stand 
in the middle of each leafe, and stand at euery 
ioynt of the stalke, where they are a little reddish, 
and knobbed or bunched out : the flowers are of an 
excellent gold yellow colour, and growe all along 
these stalkes, almost at euery ioynt with the leaues, 
vpon pretty long foote-stalkes, which are com- 
posed of flue leaues, not hollow or gaping, but 
standing open each leafe apart by it selfe, two of 
them, that be larger and longer then the other, 
stand aboue, and the other two that are lesser be- 
lowe, which are a little iagged or bearded on both 
sides, and the fift lowest : in the middle of each 
of the three lower leaues (yet sometimes it is but 
in two of them) there is a little long spot or 
streake, of an excellent crimson colour, with a long 
heele or spurre behind, hanging downe : the whole 
flower hath a fine small sent, very pleasing, which 
being placed in the middle of some Carnations or 
Gilloflowers, (for they are in flower at the same 
time) make a delicate Tussimussie, as they call it, 
or Nosegay, both for sight and sent.” 
The Tropseolum minus is readily raised from 
seeds, and where they have been shed in autumn, 
plants will often be found in spring. It is the 
parent of the double flowering variety, which is cul- 
tivated in the greenhouse, and propagated by cut- 
tings ; a plant, that for summer show in the borders 
equals, or perhaps excels, all other Tropaeolums. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 1, 746. 
