T he (jar den of plea] ant Flowers. 
will bee full peckled or fprinkled with white or fiiuer fpots, circlewife about the mid- 
dle of the flowers, and fomewill haue many fpecks or fpots vponthem difperfed: 
all thefe flowers are not blownc at one time, butfome are flowring, when others are 
decaying, fo that abiding long in their pride, they become of the more refpe<3: The 
feede is blacke,as all the reft, and not to be diftinguilhed one from another : the roots 
arc fome long, and fome fmall and threddy, running vndcr the vpper cruft of the earth. 
7. Armerius latifolius fort rubro faturohoUferlceo. 
Sweet Williams of a deepe red or murrey colour. 
Theleauesof this kindefeeme to be a little larger, and the ioints a little redder 
then the former, but in theflower confiftcth the chiefeft difference, which isof a 
deepe red, or murrey purple colour, like vnto veluet of that colour, without any fpots, 
butfmooth, and as it were foft in handling, hauingancyc or circle in the middle, at 
the botcome of thcleaucs. 
8. Armerius latifolius jimplex fore alio. 
Single white fweete Williams. 
Thewhitekindediffereth not in forme, but incolourfrora the former, thclcaues 
arc not browne at all, but of a frefh greene colour, and the flowers arc wholly white, 
orelfccheyare all one. 
The Place. 
Thefe for the moft part grow wilde in Italic, and other places : we haue 
them in our Gardens, where they are chcrifhed for their beautifull varietie. 
The Time. 
They all generally doe flower before the Gilloflowers or Pinkes, or with 
the firft of them : their feede is ripe in Iune and Iuly, and doe all well abide 
theextremitieof our coldeft winters. 
TheNames. 
They all generally are called Armerius, or Armeria, as fome doe write, 
and diftinguifhed as they arc in their titles: Yet forae haue called them Ve- 
Unica agrefiis, and others Her l a Tuuiea,Searlatea, & CaryophfUus ftlucjlriai 
Wee doe in Englifh in moft places, call the firft or narrower leafed kindes. 
Sweet Iohns, and all the reft S wcete Williams-, yet in fome places they call 
the broader leafed kindes th 2 t are not fpotted, Toltneiners, and London 
tufts: but the fpeckled kinde is termed by our Englifh Gentlewomen, for 
the moft part, London pride. 
TheVertues. 
Wehauenotknowneany of thefe vfed in Phyficke. 
Chap. LXXII. 
SeBu. Daifie. 
T Here be diners forts of Daifies, both great and fmall, both (ingle and double, 
both wilde growing abroade in the fieldes,and elfewhere,and manured grow- 
ing only in Gardens :of all which I intend not to entreate, but of thofe that are 
■ - f uioft bcautic and refpeft, and leaue the rqft to their proper place. 
1 .Be Bit 
