j The (jar den of pleajant blowers. 
The Time. 
The firft and fecond flower earlier thenthe lad, for that it flowreth not 
mill September or October, (vnlelTcit be not apt to bcarethefiiftyeare 
as Ibeforefaid)fo that many times (if nonebe more forward) it perifheth 
without bearing ripe feede, whereby we are oftentimes to feeke new feede 
from our friends in other parts. 
The Names. 
They haue all one generati name of Scabious, didinguifhed eyther by 
their flower, or place of growing, as in their titles : yetthelaft is called of 
Awn Scakiofa exotic*, becaufe they thinke the name /*&m, is not truely 
impofed vpon it. 
TheVertues. 
Whether thefekindes haueanyof thevertuesof theother wildekinds, 
I know none haue made any experience, and therefore I can fay no more of 
them. 
Chap. LXX IIII. 
Cyinut. Corne flower, or blew Bottles. 
V Nderthenameof Cyanus are comprehended, not onely tbofe plantswhich 
from the excellent blew colour of their flowers(furnifhing or rather peftering 
the Corne fieldes) haue peculiarly obtained that name, and which doth much 
vary alfo, in the colour of the flowers, as (hallbe fhewedjbut fome other plants alfofor 
their neere refemblance, but with fcuerall diftinftions. The Cjanusmaier, Ptarmica 
jiustrucn. Ptarmica Imperati, and many others which may be adioyned vnto them, do 
more fitly belong to the Garden of Simples, whereunto I leaue them, and will here 
only entreate of thofe that may mod pleafe the delight of our Gentle Florifts, in that 
I labour and ftriue, tofurnilh this ourgarden, withthechiefeftchoyfeof natures 
beauties and delights. 
i. Cyanus vulgaris iiucrferumcolorum. Corne flower of diuers colours. 
All thefe forts of Corne flowers are for the mod part alike, both in leauesand 
flowers one vnto another fortheforme: the difference bet weene them confideth in 
the varying colour of the flowers: For the leaues are long, and of a whitifh greene 
colour, deeply cut in on the edges in fome places, fomewhatlikevntotheleaues of a 
Scabious : the Aalkes are two foote high or better,befet with fuch like leaues but fmal- 
ler,and little or nothing flit on the edges: the toppes are branched, bearing many final 
greene fcaly heads, out of which rife flowers, confiding of fine or fixe, or more long 
and hollow leaues, fmall at the bottome, and opening wider and greater at the brims, 
notched or cut in on the edges, anddanding round about many fmall threds inthe 
middle : the colours of thefe flowers are diuers, and very variable ; for fomeare 
wholly blew,or white, orblufh, or of afad, or light purple, or of a light or dead red, 
or of an ouerworne purple colour, or elfe mixed of thele colours, as fome, the edges 
white, and the red blew or purple, or the edges blew or purple, and the red of the 
flower white, or Ariped,fpotted,orh»lfed,theonepartof one colour, and the other 
of another, thethreds likewife in the middle varying in many of them ; for fome 
will haue the middle thrume of adeeperpurplethen the outer leaues, and fome haue 
white or blufh leaues, the middle thrume being reddifh, deeper or paler : After the 
flowers are pad, there come fmall, hard, white and fhining feede in thofe heads, wrap- 
