ifjz The (garden of pic a f ant Flowers. 
ate full ripe, arc to befcen an innumerable company of white feed, (landing out among 
the fhort thrums, and do then eafily fall away with a little touchingj.enery one of tbele 
white feed hath as it were an hole halfc bored through thcrin: the root is a great bulb of 
firings, fpreadinginthe ground, whereby it is ftrongly fattened, yet perifheth euery 
yeate,afcer it hath giuen his feedc. 
The Place. 
All thefe plants grow? in the Eafierne Countries, as Perfia, Syria , Ara- 
bia, &c. except the greateft, which hath been brought out of the Weft In- 
dies, where it is much vfed, cfpecially the feedc : they are all, exceptir, 
nout fed vp with much care in our Gardens , and yet in a backward or cold 
yearethey will not thriue, for that they defire much heate: but the greateft 
doth alwayes giue ripe feede euery yeare. 
TheTime. 
They beare their gallant tufts or fpikes for the moft part in Auguft, and 
fome not vntill September. 
The Names. 
The name Amtrunthus is giuen to all thefe plants, taken from the Grceke 
word c-Ven'TO®-, non mircefceus, or non feuefeent, that is, neuer waxing old, 
and is often alfo impofed on other plants, who haue the fame property, that 
is, that their flowers being gathered in a fit fealon,wiIl rerainetheir nadue 
colour a long time, as (hall be fiieweli in the Chapter following. Diuers do 
thinkethe firft to be Phlox, or FUmnu of Theophraftus. Tbethird is called 
G clefts, or Celtfis of Tragus. Spigcliusin his ifugogttfatth , it is generally 
taken to be Sephmis, whereof Plinie maketh mention ; and Lobel, to bee 
the Perfians Thetmhrtttn of Plinie. The Italians, from whom I had it (by 
the meanesofM 1 . Doctor Iohn More, as I haue had many other rarefim- 
plcs)callit, Blitedilrecoleri.Athtec coloured Blire. The fifth, which is 
the greateft, hath been fent from the Weft Indies by the name of £* inii a, 
as Clufius reporteth. The name Flower-gentle in Englifh , and F lor amour. 
which is the French, of Flu amoris, and Ptjfc veloars , as is before laid , or 
Veluet flower, according to the Italian, Fitr velato, are equally giuen to all 
thefe plants, with their feucrall diflindtions, as they are expreffed in their 
titles. 
TheVertues. 
Diuers fuppofethe flowers of thefe plants doe helpe to flay thefluxe 
of bloudinmanorwoman, becaufethat other things that are red or pur- 
ple doe performc the fame. But Galen difproueth that opinion very no- 
tably, in Itb. t . dr 4 . de jimp l . medic ament. fault it ihxt. 
Chap. XC I II. 
HelkPey film, fiat Amaranth tu luteus. 
Golden FIower-gentle,GoIdilockes, or Gold-flower. 
T He propinquity of property (as I before faid) hath caufed the affinity in name, 
and fo in neighbourhood in thefe plants, wherein there are fome diuerfity ; and 
although they differ from them before in many notable points, yet they all a- 
grec with themfelucs in the golden, or filuer heads or tufts they beare- and therefore I 
haue 
