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then the yellow kinde exprefledin the Kirchin Garden ; arid therefore fit- 
ter for medicine then for meate, but yet is vfed as the yellow kinde is, which 
is more fit for meate then medicine. The diftilled water is good towalh 
old fores and wounds. 
Ch Ar.LXVIII. 
Flos Africanus. The French Marigold. 
O F the French or African Marigolds there are three kindes as principali, and of 
tachof them both with fingle and double flowers : of thefe, fomediuer- 
fity is obferued in the colour ofthe flowers, aswellas in the formeorlarge- 
nefle, fo that as you may here fee, I haue expreffed eight differences , and Fabius Co- 
lumna nine or ten, in regard hce maketh a diuerfity of the paler and deeper yellow co- 
lour : and although the lefler kinde, becaufeofirseuill fcnt,is held dangerous, yet for 
the beauty of the flower it findeth roome in Gardens. 
I .Flos Africanus motor ftuc mtximus multiplex. 
The great double French Marigold. 
This goodly double flower, which is the grace and glory of a Garden in the time of 
hisbeauty, rifeth vpwithaftraightandhard round greene ftalke, hauing fome crefts 
or edges all along the ftalke, befet with long winged leaues , euery one whereof is like 
vnto the leafeofan A(li, being comppfed of many long and narrow leaues, fnipt about 
the edges, (landing by couples one agaimf another, with an odde one attheend, ofa 
darke or full greene colour : the ftalke rifeth to be three or foure foote high , and diui- 
deth it felfe from themiddlcthereof into many branches , fet with fuch like leaues to 
the toppes of them, euery one bearing one great double flower , of a gold yellow co- 
lour aboue, and paler vnderneath, yet fome are of a pale yellow , and fome betweene 
both,and allthefe rifing from one and the fame feede : the flower, before it be blowne 
open, hath all the leaues hollow ; but when it is full blowne open, it fpreadeth it felfe 
larger then any Prouince Rofe, or cquall vnto it at the lead, if it be in good earth, and 
rifeth out of a long greene huske, ftriped or furrowed, wherein after the flower is palf, 
(which ftandeth in his full beauty a moneth , and oftentimes more , and being gathe- 
red, maybe preferued in his full beauty for two moneths after, if it be fetin water) 
ftandeth the (cede, fet thicke and clofe together vpright, wh chisblacke, fotne- 
what flat and long : the roote is full of ftnall ft rings , whereby it ftrongly comprehen- 
deth in the ground : the flower of this, as well as thefingle, is ofthe very fmell of new 
waxc, or ofanhonie combe, and notofthat poifonfull fent of the fmaller kindes. 
2 . Flos Africanus maior fimptex, The great fingle French Marigold. 
This fingle Marigold is in all things fo like vnto the former, that it is hard todi- 
feerne it from the double, but by the flowers, onelythe ftalke will be browner then 
the double ; and to my beft obferuation, hath and doth euery yearc rife from the feede 
of the double flower ; fo that when they are in flower , you may fee the difference (or 
not much before, when they are in bud) this fingle flower euer appearing with thrums 
in the middle, and the leaues, which are the border or pale (landing about them, (hew- 
ing hollow or fiftulous, which after lay themfelues flat and open (and the double 
flower appearing with all his leaues folded clofe together, without any thrum at all) 
and are of a deeper or paler colour, as in the double. 
3 . Flos Africanus fisiulofo flore (implex & multiplex. 
Single and double French Marigolds with hollow leafed flowers. 
As the former two greateft forts haue rifen from the feede of one and the fame (I 
Cc a means 
