The (jar den of pleafant F termers. 
Chap. LX. 
Flos Adonis flore ruhro. Red Adonis flower. 
A Donis flower may well be accounted a kinde of Camomill, although it hath 
fomecfpeciall differences, hauing many long branches of leaues lying vpon 
thegrQund,sndfomerifingvp with the ftalke, fo finely cutand iagged, thac 
they much refemblc the leaues of May weed, or of the former NigilL at the top of the 
ftalkes, which rife a foote high or better, ftandfmall red flowers, confiftingof fix or 
eight round leaues, hauing a greene head in the middle, fet about with many blackifh 
threads, without any finellatall after the flowers are part, there grow vp heads with 
manyroundiflnvhitefeedesatthetoppesofthetn, fetclofe together, very like vnro 
the heads of fcede of the great Oxe eye, fet downe in the next Chapter, but fmaller ; 
the rootes arc fmall and thready , periihing euery yeare , but rifing of hif ownc feedc 
againe, many times before Winter, which will abide vntill the next yeare. 
Yellow Adonis flower is like vnto the red, but that the flower is fomewhat larger, f / <r£ btei ; 
and of a faire y ello w colour. 
The Place. 
The firft groweth wilde in the corn fields in many places of our own coun ■ 
try, as well as in others , and is brought into Gardens for the beauties fakd 
oftheflower. Thcyellowisaftranger,butnourfedinour Gardens with o- 
ther rarities. 
The Time. 
They flower in May or lune , as the yeare falleth out to be early or late i 
the feed is foone ripe after, and will quickly fall away, if it be not gathered. 
The Names. 
Some haue taken the red kinde to be a kinde of Anemone ; other to be 
Erant hemum of Diofcorides : the mod vfuall name now with vs is Fits Di- 
donis, and Flos Adonidis : In Englifh , where it groweth wilde, theycallic 
red May thes, as they call the May weede, white Maythes ; and l'ome of our 
Englifh Gentlewomen call it Rofarubie : we v lually call it Adonis flower. 
The Vertues; 
It hath been certainly tryed by experience, that the feed of red Adonis 
flower dtunke in wine, is good to cafe the paines of the Collicke and Stone. 
Chap. LX I. 
'Buphthalmum. Oxe eye. 
V Nderthe name Buphthalmum, or Oxe eye, are comprehended two or three fe- 
uerall plants, each differing from other, both in face and property, yet becaufe 
theyallbeare one generali name, Ithinkc fitteftto comprife them all in one 
Chapter,and firft of that which in leafc& feed commerh ncareft to the Adonis flower. 
I . ’Buphthalmnm maius Jtue He Sc btrsu niger ferulaceus. 
Great Oxe eye, or the yellow Anemone. 
This great Oxe eye is a beamifull plant, hauing many branches of gitenc leaues 
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