ipo The Cjarden of plea/ ant Flowers. 
flowers, and likewife that the Flowers of this, which ftandnor on both fides areof a 
deeper red colour, and flower later, after all the reft are paft : the rootc hereof bein<* 
netted as plainly as any of the former, is as plentifull alfo to giue encreafe, but is mere 
tender and lefleable to abide our fharpe cold Winters. 
Glaiiolut flore rulcnte. Blulh Corne Flagge. 
T his blufh kir.de is like vnto the French Corne Flagge in all refpedis , fauino onely 
that the flowers are of a pale red colour, tending to whiteneffe, which wee ylually call 
% blufh colour. 
Gladielm fltre alto. White Corne Flagge. 
This white Come Flagge alfo differeth not from thelaft,but onely thattherootes 
are whiter on the outfidc, the leaues are greener, without any brownnelle or darknefte 
as in the former, and the flowers dre fnow white. 
Gladiolus furfur cue minor. The fmall purple Cornc Flagge. 
This alfo differeth not from any of the former, but onely in the fmalnefle both of 
leafe, ftalke, and flowers, which ftand all on the one fide , like vnto the French kinde 
and of the fame colour : the roote of this kinde is netted more then any other. 
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They grow in France and Italy, the leaftin Spaine, and the Byzantine,- 
as it is thought, about Conftantinople, being (asisfaid) firft fent from 
thence. Iohn Tradefcante afTured mee, that hce faw many acres ofground 
in Barbary fpread ouer with them. 
The Time. 
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They all flower in Iune and Iuly, and the Byzantine latcft , as is faid be- 
fore. 
The Names. 
It hath diuers names; for the Latines call it Gladiolus , of the forme of a 
{word, which the leafe doth refemble. The Romanes Segetalis , becaufe it 
groweth in the Corne fields. Some call it Kiilorialis rotunda, to put a difle* 
rence between it,and the longa, which is a kinde of Garlicke. Plinie faith, 
that Gladiolus is Cjpirus,bui to decide that controuerfie, and many others, 
belongethtoanotherdifcourfe,thisbeing intended only for plealurc. Gcr- 
tard miftaketh the French kinde for the Italian. 
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TheVertues. 
- 7,r cr00 . tcbe,ng Eroded, and applyed with Frankinfenfe Cand often of 
it fclfe without it)mtheraanner of a pultis or plaifter, is held of diuers to 
be fiaguiar good todraw out Winters, thorncs, and broken bones out of 
the flelh. Some take it to be cfFcdtuall to ftirre vp Venerie , butlfomewhat 
doi ubt thereof : For Galen in his eighth Bookc of Simples, giueth vnto it a 
drawing, digefting, and drying faculty. # 
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