2&f 
'The (jar dene f pie a / ant t lowers. 
wiurcof bith lilcewife three flj . vers, each vpon his owne footeHalke, confiftingof 
eight fm ill leaues a peece,yet feeming to be but of foure lcaus fpread or layd open fiat, 
forchtr the foare vpparmoff .which are the ftnaller and being yellow, doe lye fo clofe 
on the foure vndermoft, w. cb arc a little broader and red, that they iliew as if they were 
yellow ft >vers with red edges, hauing yellow thredstipr with greene, Handing in the 
middle of thefij.vers : the vnderlideof the lower leaues are of apaleyellowiflired, 
ftriped with white lines : after the flowers are part, there come fmalilong pods,whcr- 
in are contained flue reddhh feeds : the rotates dre fmall,rcddi(h and hard, fpreading, 
branching and enterheing themfclues very much, and isfittobeplacedonfomcfha- 
dy fide of agarden : the whole plant is rather of a firong then any good fent, yetis 
chcrilhedfor the pleafant vanetic of the flowers. 
vnto Ligorne, in the Florentine Domipion. Camerarius faith, nigh vnto 
V icenzo in Italic. Banhinus on the Euganian hils, nigh vnto Padoa, and in 
Romania in Ando .vie wet grounds. 
tnougn ne laxtn it is without tiower or lcede, being therein eyther miflaken, 
or mif-informed, as he was alfo in of Candy, and diuersother 
plants. From the tripletriplicitie of the Handing of theflalkesand leaues, 
andquadriphcitieol the flowers, itmight receiue another name in Englifh 
then is already impoR-d vpon it : but IcH I might be thought to be Angular 
or full of nouelrie, let it palfe with the name Barrenwort,as it is in the title. 
O F Poppies there are a great many forts, both wilde and tame, butbecaufcour 
Garden doth entertaine none, but thole of beautie and refpett, I wil oncly 
giueyou hereafew double ones, and leaue the refl to a general furuey. 
II ' nuot . ■ 
i . PApxuer multiplex album. Double white Poppies. 
Thedouble white Poppy hath diuers broadc,and long whit ifh grpene leaues, giuing 
milke (as all the red of the plant about-ground doth, wherefoeuer it is broken) very 
much rent or torne in on the fides,and notched or indented belidcs, compaflingatthe 
bottomc of thema bard round brittle whitift greene Halite, branched towards the 
toppe,bearingpncfairp large great floiver on the head of euery branch, which before 
it breaketh out,'is contained within a thin skinne, and being blovvne open is very thick 
fit leaues, and double, loupe what iagged at the ends, and of a white colour; in the 
The Place* 
CatfalptriUs faith it growerh on the mountaincs of Liguria, that is nigh 
.i., . . TheTime. 
Itflowreth from June vntill the end ofIu!y,and to the middle ofAuguH, 
if it Hand, as I faid it is fittefl, in u Aiadowie place. 
->■{ 01 :w 
The Names. 
t 
The Vertues. 
«vv»ri Mrlnt 
^ of diuers to agree in thepropertieof caulingbarrennefle, 
as the ancients doe record of Epimcdittm. 
Chap. LIIII. 
Papauer fututum. Garden Poppies. 
middle 
