C I be Cjarden of plea f ant timers. 
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The Time. 
They flower in Iune and Iuly, andfotne in Auguft, their feede bccom* 
mine ripe quickly after. 
The Names. 
Onely the name Digitalis, is of all Writers giuen vnro thefe plants ; for 
itisnotknownetobee remembredofanyofrheold Authors. Wee call 
them generally in Engliih, Foxeglouc ; but fome (as thinking it to bee too ’ 
foolilh a namcj doe call them Finger- flowers, becaufe they are like vnto the 
fingers of a gtoue, the ends cut off. 
Foxegloues are not vfed. in Phy ficke by any iudicious man that I know ; 
yet fome Italians of Bononia, as Camerarius faith , in his time vfed it as a 
wound herbe. 
T Here be diuerskindes of Mullein, as white Mullein, blacke Mullein, wooddy 
Mullein, bafe Mullein , Moth Mullein, and Ethiopian Mullein, all which to 
diftinguifh or to deferibe, is neither my purpofe, nor the intent of this worke, 
whichistoftorea Garden with flowers of delight, and (equefter others not worthy 
of that honour. Thofe that are fit to bee brought to your confideration in this place, 
are firft, the Blattarias, or Moth Mulleins , and then the wooddy Mullein , which o- 
rherwife is called French Sage , and laftly, the Ethiopian Mullein, whofe beauty con- 
fifteth not in the flower, but in the whole plant ; yet if it pleafe you not, take it accor- 
ding to his Country fora Moore, an Infideli, a Slaue, and fo vfe it. 
The yellow Moth Mullein whofe flower is fweete , hath many hard grayifh greenc 
leaueslyingontheground,fomewhatlongandbroad, and pointed at the end : the 
Italics are two or three foot high, withfome leaues on them, & branching out from the 
middle vpwards into many long branches , ftored with many fmall pale yellow flow- 
ers, of a pretty fweete lent, fomewhat ftronger then in the other forts, which feldome 
giuethfeede, but abideth in the roote, lining many yearcs, which few or none of the 
others doe. 
2. Blattaria luta maiar [me Hif panica. The great yellow Moth Mullein. 
This Spanifli kinde hath larger and greener leaues then the former, and rounder 
and larger then the next that followeth: the ftalke is higher then in any of the Moth 
Mulleins, being for the moft part foure or fiue foote high, whereon toward the toppe 
growe many goodly yellow flowers, confiding of fiue leaues, as all the reft doe , not 
fothicke fetas the former, but much larger, with fome fmall purplifh threads in the 
middle: the ends whereof are fafhioned fomewhat like as if a Flie were creeping vp 
the flower, which turne into round heads, fometimes two or three or more (landing 
together, but vfually one, wherein lye fmall duskie feed : theroote is not great nor full 
of threads, and doth perifh moft vfually hauing giuen feede, except chc Winter bee 
very milde. 
Chap. XCylll. 
Verbafcam. Mullein. 
i. Blattaria latex odorata. Sweete yellow Moth Mullein. 
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