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piece, »f “ polo re.i color ; which being pa/} away , 
conic jorth Skinny Hush, containing fmall, round , 
hard, black Seed. 1 his Plant jor the beauty of its 
flowers, is brought into, and nurfed up in our Gar- 
dens. 
VIII. The fifth, or Sea Campion White. It has a 
long Pender Root , which abides many Tears, from 
whence fprings up feveral weak, flexible Branches , 
lying a!/ about upon the ground, ( which Branches are 
much divided into many other /mailer ones ) two or 
three feet long ; thick fet with final! , long, fat, 
and whitijh green Leaves. At the top of every 
Branch funds one Jhort, thick, whitijh green Husk , 
parted or cut in at top -, out of which fprings forth 
a J'mall long neck'd white flower, not much unlike 
to that of the f pat ling Poppy, and as while, compofed 
of five final/, round pointed Leaves, with fome black- 
ifh threads in the middle : which being paffed away, 
there comes forth Husks like thofe of the other 
Wild Campions, containing within them fmall brown 
Seed. 
IX. T he Red flower’d Sea Campion differs not 
from the former, neither in its Root, Stalks, Branch- 
es, Leaves, flowers. Husks, nor Seed, nor yet in the 
manner of growing , excepting only in the color of 
the flower, this being of a fine pleafint Red, where- 
as the former is White : Jo that fome have thought 
it to be one and the fame Species, Nature only fport- 
ing it f elf in the variety or color of the flower : this 
Plant Herborjts call m Latin, Lychnis Marina More 
rubello, Red flower'd Sea Campion. 
X. T he fixth, or Englifh fmall white Field Cam- 
pion, has a Root which is fmall and white, and pe- 
rifhes every % Tear ; front whcitfe fpring forth Leaves, 
which are fmall and hairy, not much unlike to the 
fmall MouJ'e Ear : and from among which fprings 
forth a /lender fmall Stalk, fometimes but one , which 
is fingle of it fejf and fometimes many, not exceed- 
ing a foot high. At every Joint two Leaves are fet 
together, f mailer than thofe l/clow, andfpotted with 
white f pots from the bofom whereof viz. between 
them and/ the Stalk, come forth two other Leaves, 
much JmalJer than they, witlmn. anyfenfible Tafie. 
The f/mcci-s arc, fmall and. white JiAe unto the other 
Wild Campions. After which come fmall, long 
Heads , with fmall greyafh Seed in them. 
. XL T hcfevctuh,or Single Feathered Wild Cam- 
pion has. a.Root very, fibrous, or full of fmall firings, 
from whence fprings forth a Stalk ; ; as a/fa Leaver' 
fomewhat like’ the ordinary. White- Wildl Campion’ 
but not Jo large , or, rather refemblmg the Leaves of 
Sweet Williams, but that they grow not fo clofe 
nor fo many together. The Stalks have Jmaller 
Leaves at the Joints, than.thofe below, and branched 
at the Top-, on which feveral Tops grow many pale, 
but bright red flowers, jagged or cut in on the edges, 
like the featberedPink, for which thing fake, fome 
have taken it to be a kind, and fome for a kind of 
Wild William ; but notwtthfiand all this, it is but 
a Wild Campion, as miry, eajily be obferved from fe- 
veral other parts of the Plant. It has a Husk which 
bears the f lower, like the Campions, and alfo round 
greyijh Seed. 
Double Wild Campions. 
Xfl Jhefirft of thefe ( in our Account ) is the 
Double Feathered Wild Campion, which in its Roots 
Stalks, Branches, Leaves, Flowers, Husks, and Seed 
IS like unto the Single Feathered Wild Campion! 
excepting only in two things, i. That the flowers 
are very Double. 2 . That the whole Plant in its 
magnitude and manner of growing is Jmaller and 
lower. 
XIII. The fecond, or Red Batchelors Buttons has 
a thick large Root, white and long, with many Bran- 
ches and fibres Springing from it from whence 
come up many rough broad Leaves, fomewhat woolly 
and hoary among which rfe up long foft and hairy 
Stalks , branched into many Arms, two or three feet 
high, or more, fet with the like Leaves, but lefs • 
The Leaves grow at the Joints , two oppofite one to 
another, up to the top ; and. from thefe Joints other 
Branches Spring forth, at top of every one of which 
flowers grow compared of a multitude of Leaves 
and of a red color. Thefe flowers are very double 
compofed of a great many red Leaves, very thickly 
puckt or crouded together, and commonly fet in a 
Jhort or broken Husk, whereby the flowers feem to 
Jland on one fide ; but are not jagged, or cut in on 
the tops, as the flowers of other Campions are, but 
altogether fmooth. It is like in all its parts to the 
firji Single Wild Campion as to its manner of grow- 
ing, excepting that it is every ways Irfs , and its 
f lowers are Red, and very Double. 
XIV. The third, or White Batchelors Buttons .• 
As the Leaves of the former Red Buttons were like 
unto the Leaves of the fecond Single Kind, with Red 
Flowers ; fo the Leaves of this are like unto the 
Leaves oj thefirft Single White Knid, and the whole 
Plant differs nothing from it, but in the Doublcnefs 
oj the flowers ; nor very little from the Red Bat- 
chelors Buttons, but in the color of the fame thefe 
being wholly White and fo very double, that by 
the multiplicity of Leaves being crouded together, 
they break the Husk in which the Flowers Jland, 
as the other does , fo that there is not one Flower in 
a great many which is whole. Gerard fays , That the 
fimilitude which thefe Flowers ( both oj Red and 
White ) have to the jagged Cloth Buttons, formerly 
worn in this Kingdom , gave occafion to our Ladies , 
and other Flortfts of thofe times , to give them the 
names zohich now they bear . 
XV. The. 
