ipg 7* he (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 
leaues a pecce, of a faire Peach colour, like vnto the flowers of purple Sowebread of 
the Spring, and deeper at the bottorae. 
There are ofthis kindc fame, whofe flowers appeare in the Spring, and are as large 
and double as the former, but of a pure whitecolour. 
There are of thcfe Sowebreads of Antioch, that haue but Angle flowers , fome ap- 
pearing in the Spring, and others in Autumne. 
\o.CjtUmtn vnlgtrtfilk retunit. The common Sowebread. 
The common Sowebread (which is moft vfed in the Apothecaries Shops) hath 
"many leaues fpread vpon the ground , rifing from certaine fmall long heads , that are 
on the greater round rootes, as vfuallymeft ofthe former forts doe, being in thelike 
manner folded together, and after fpread themfelues into round greene leaues , fome- 
What like vnto the leaues of but not fhining, without any white fpotson the 
Vpperfidcfor the moft part, or but rery feldome, and reddifh or purplifh vnderneath 
and very feldome greener \ the flowers ftand vpon fmall foot-ftalkes, and (he w them- 
felues open for the moft part, before any leaues doe appeare, being fmaller and fhorter 
then thofe with Iuie leaues, and of a pale purple colour, yet fometimes deeper, hang- 
ing dawnc their heads, and turning vp their leaues againe, as all others doe, but more 
fweetethen many other ofthe Autumneflowers : after the flowers are pail, come the 
heads turning or winding themfelues downe in like manner as the other do, hauing 
fuch like feede,but fomewhat larger , and more vneuen, or not fo round at the leaft : 
the rootc is round, and not flat, of a browner colour, and not fo blacke on the outfidc 
as many ofthe others. 
The Place. 
The Sowebreads ofthe Spring doe both grow on the Pyrenean Moun- 
taines in Italy, and in Candy, and about Mom pelier in France ; Antioch in 
Syria alfo hath yeeldedfome both ofthe Spring and Autumne. Thofe 
with round and Iuie leaues grow in diuers places both bf France and Italy : 
and the common in Germany, and the Lowe-Countries. But that Autumne 
Sowebread with white flowers, is reported to grow in the Kingdome of 
Naples. I haue very curioufly enquired of many , if euer they found them 
in any parts of England, neare or farther off from the places where they 
dwell: but they haue all affirmed, that they neuer found, or euer heard of 
any that haue found of any of them. Thisonely they haueaffured, that 
there groweth none in the places, where fome haue reported them to grow. 
The Time. 
Thofe of the Spring doe flower about the end of Aprill ,' or beginning 
bfMay. TheothcroftheSummer, about the end of Iuneorinluly. The 
reft fome in Auguft, and September, others in O&ober. 
The Names. 
y\ 
The Common Sowebread is called by moft Writers in Latine,' TtnU 
>«■«»«*, and by thatnameitisknowneinthe Apothecaries fhops, as alfo 
bythenam cArtbtwu, according to which name, they hauean ointment 
fo called, which is to be made with the iuice hereof. It is alfo called by di- 
uers other names , not pertinent for this difeaurfe. The moft vfuall name 
whereby itisknewneto moft Hcrbarifts, is Cjclamcn (which is the Greeke 
word) or as fome call it CycUmium , adding thereunto their other fcucrall 
titles. In Englifh, Sowebread. 
The Vertucs. 
The leaues and rootes arevery effe&uall for thefpleene, as the Oint» 
bent before reme mbted plainly proueth, being vfed for the lame purpofe, 
and 
