c f he (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 
Chap. LXXXV. 
Gent Unit. Gentian or Fell- wort. 
T Here are diuers forts of Gentians or Fcllwortes, fome greater, others lefler, 
and fome very final! ; many of them haue very beautiful] flowers, but beqipfe 
fome are very fuddenly part, before one would i hinke they were blotvne open, 
and others will abide no culture and manuring, I w.ll onely fet forth vnto you two of 
the greater fort s,and three of the lelfer kindes,as fitted, and more familiarly furnifhing 
our gardens, leauing the red to their wilde habitations, and to bee comprehended 
in a generali Worke. >> 
i . Gentium miier flare jhnt>. The great GentiaS. 
Thegreat Gentian rifeth vp atthefirft, with a long, round and pointed head of 
leaues, doling one another, which alter opening themfelues, lye vpon the ground, 
and are faire, long and broad, fomewhat plaited or ribbed like vnto the leaues of white 
Elleboror Neefeworte, but notfo fairely or eminently plaited, neythcr fo diffc, but 
rather refemblingthe leaues of a great Plan ane : from among which rifeth vpadiffe 
round dalke, three foote high orbetter, full of ioynts, hauingtwo fuch leaues, but 
narrower and fmallerateuery ioynt, fo cotnpaffing about the dalke at the lower end 
ofthem, that they will almod hold water that falleth into them : from the middle of 
the dalke to che toppe, it is garniflied with many coronets or rundles of flowers, with 
two fuch greene leaues likewife at eucry ioynt, and wherein the flowers doe dand, 
which are y ello w,lay d open like Aarres, and rifing out of fmali greenifh huskes, with 
fome threds in the middle of them, but of nofentatall, yet dately to behold, both 
for the order, height and proportion of the plant •. the feede is brown? and flat, con^ 
tained in round heads, fomewhat like vntothe feede oh\\tFritiUirit, orcheckcrd 
Daffodil!, but browner : the rootes are great,thicke and long, yellow,and exceeding 
bitter. 
i. Gentiim miitr foist '^ifclefliits. Swallow-wort Gentian. 
Thiskindeof Gentian hath many Aalkes fifing from the roote, neerc two foote 
high, whereon grow many faire pale greene leaues, fet by couples, with three ribs in 
eueryone of them, and doe fomewhat rel’emble the leaues of Afclcpi.ts or Swallow, 
wort, that is,broade at the bottome,and (harpeat the point : the flowers grow at the 
feuerall ioynts of the Aalkes, from the middle vpwards,two or three together, which 
are long an d hollow,like vnto'abell flower, ending in fiue corners, or pointed lpaues, 
and folded before they are open, as the flowers of the Bindeweedes are, of a faire 
blew colour, fometimes deeper, and fometimes palem the heads or feede veffels haue 
two points or homes at the toppes, and containe within them flat grayifh feed, like vn- 
to the former, but leife : the rootes hereof are nothing fo great as the former, butarc 
yellow, fmali and long, of the bigneffe of a mans thumbe. 
3 . Gentitm minor Cruciiti. CrofTe wort Gentian. 
This fmali Gentian hath many branches lying vpon theground,fcarce lifting them- 
felues vpright, andfullof ioynts, whereat grow vfually foureleaues, oneoppofite 
vnto another, in manner of a Crofle, from whence it too.ke his name, in drape very like 
vnto Sip omrii orSopewort,butlhorter,andof a darker greene colour: at the tops of 
the- Aalkes dand many flowers, thick thrufting together, and likewifp at the next ioynr 
vnderneath, eueryone of themdanding in adarke blewifli greene huske, andcon- 
lidingof fiuefmallleaucs, the points or ends whereof only appeareaboue the huskes 
wherein they dand, and are hardly to be feene, but that they are of a fine pale blew co- 
lour, and that many grow together : the feed is fmali and brown, hard, and fomewhat • 
