o8 6 Salmon V Herbal. Lib. I. 
five from the Head together, hanging down, round 
about the Stalk, like unto a Crown Imperial, and 
are of ayclloicifh green color on the infide, /potted 
with a jew red Spots , the outfide being blackifh as 
the former. 
XVII. The Places. The firft of thefe came from 
France, where, about Orleance, it grows plentiful- 
ly : the other forts grow in thole Countries which 
their Titles indigitate , but are all of them nurs d 
up with us in Gardens of Florifts , and are moft of 
them become Natives of this Kingdom. 
XVIII. The Times. The early kinds do flower in 
the beginning of April, according to theMildnefs or 
Hardneis of the aforegoing Winter : the others flow- 
er alter the firft are paft tor a Months^ fpace, one 
after another •, and the Great yellow is very late, 
not flowering till about the middle or the end of 
May. ^ 
XIX. As to the Qualities, Specification, Prepa- 
rations and Virtues of thefe Plants, or any of them, 
Authors have laid nothing at all, whether inwardly 
to be taken or outwardly to be applied * nor have I 
had any Experience of their Efte&s in my fourty 
Years Practice : they are a glorious and admirable 
Elower, of an extraordinary Beauty, and their chief 
Ufe with us, is to be an Ornament for Gardens, 
which they nobly beautify, and therefore deferve 
our Cultivation, Entertainment and Obfervation 
efpecially of Florijis, and other Lovers of Curiofi- 
ties of this kind. 
CHAP. CCIV. 
Of D A I S I E Garden. 
I.np H E Names . The Daifie is called in Greek , 
A (as lome fuppofe, from Theophraftus lib. 7. 
cap. 9.) ’A vHtplf but this I judge to be a Miftake, 
for it does not plainly appear in any Greek Author, 
that the Grecians had the Knowledge thereof : in 
Latin , Beilis , Pliny lib. 2 6 . cap. 9. and in Englifh, 
Garden Daifie. The Latins alfo call it, Herba 
Margarita. 
II. The Kinds. The chief kinds are, 1. Beilis 
hortenfis , The Garden Daifie, of which in this Chap- 
ter. 2. Beilis agreftis , The Field Daifie, of which 
in Chap. 205. 3. Beilis major vulgaris. The greater 
common Daifie, of which in Chap. 206. 4. Beilis 
Jpinofa, The Thorney Daifie, or which in Chap. 
207. 9. Beilis Americana, The Weft India or Ame- 
rican Daifie, of which in Chap. 208. following. 
III. Beilis hortenfis, or the Garden Daifie is ma- 
nifold, viz. 1. Beilis minor fiore rubro fimplici, Sin- 
gle red Daifies. 2. Beilis major fiore albo pleno, The 
great double white Daifie. 3. Beilis minor fiore 
pleno variorum colorum. The lefler double Daifies 
of divers colors. 4. Beilis minor prolifera. Double 
double Dailies. 5. Beilis Globularia cerulea. Blew 
Globe Daifies. 6 . Beilis Globularia lute a. Yellow 
Globe Daifies. 
IV. The Defcriptions. The firft, or Single red 
Daifie, has Roots which are fmall, white and fibrous 
or thready -, from whence rife many fmooth , green, 
round-pointed Leaves, lying on the Ground , a little 
fnipt about the edges : from among which rife up ma- 
ny J lender round Foot -/talks, rather than Stalks or 
Stems , about an hand breadth high at moft, and fome- 
times not fo high, bearing one Flower apiece , confi- 
ning of many Jmall Leaves , as a Pale or Border, Jet 
about a middle Thrum : the Leaves are almoft wholly 
red. 'whereat m the middle they are white or whitijh , 
enclining to red on the edges , the middle being 
yellow. 
BELLIS: 
(gammon. 
V. The feconl. , or Great double white Daifie, bdi 
a white fibrous or ftringy Root : the whole Plant is 
fo like to the Great Angle kind, which grows by 
Highways , and in Meadows and Fields, that there is 
no difference between them, but in the Flower, which 
in this is double. It has many long and fomewhat 
broad Leaves, lying upon the Ground , deeply cut in 
on both fides, fomewhat like unto an Oaken Leaf : 
but thofe which are on the Stalks, are Jhorter , nar- 
rower, and not fo deeply cut in, but only notched on 
the edges. The Flowers at the top are white and dou- 
ble, eonfifiing of fever al Rows of Leaves, being greater 
in Compafs than any of the Double Dailies which f of 
low , but nothing fo double of Leaves . 
