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Flowers which will be half white, and half blufh or 
purple ; or one Leaf white, and another blulh or 
purple, or elle variably mixt and fpotted. The 
Seed and Secd-Veflels are like thofe of the three 
felt Kinds, but larger and harder. 
VIII. The fixth, nr Double upright Larks-Spur 
of many Colors. Thefe Double Laiks-Spurs cannot 
he known from the Singles/ the fame Kin. I juft afore 
dcfcribcd , until' they come 'towards plowering ; for 
there appear many flowers- upon the Stalks, in the 
fame manner, and-of as many Colors almolt as the 
Single, except the party-colored, which Hand like 
little Double Refer, let ill or lpread open, as the Roji 
Columbine, without any Spurs or Heels behind them, 
very delightful to behold, confilliitg of many Inrail 
Leaves growing together ; which alter they are fal 
len, three or four Imall Cods fee together come up 
in their places, wherein is contained here and theft 
( for all are not full of Seed as the Single Kinds 
black Seed, like unto till the reli, but fmalior, which’ 
being fown, will bring Plants, which will bear both 
lingle and double flowers again. And it often hap 
pens, that it variably alters in Colors from its own 
Sowing! for none of them bold conltandy its own 
Color, ( fo far as has yet been obferved ) but change 
into others as Nature plea fits. 
IX. An Obfervation. This lift Plant Mr. Rea, 
in his Ceres Chap. To. fays is only worth the preser- 
ving ; and he deferibes it thus. Double upright 
La’ks-Heel, from a Root which peri (has in Winter 
fends forth /mail jagged Leaves, tall upright Stalks, 
branched lit lop, and bearing many fine double plow- 
ers , in term like to the Role Columbine, in Several 
Plants of as many Several entire Colors, as Blew, 
Purple, Alb, White, pale Blulh, Rofe-eolor; thefe 
are the moft uliral Colors, yet Sometimes fome 
Roots will bring Flowers which are Striped, and va- 
riegated with blew and white, and often witlt fome 
Leaves blew, and others purple ; alter the flowers 
are pall, come iorth Small horned Pods, which con- 
tain Seed black and round, and which heing lowed, 
will bring fome Plants with fngle, but moll with 
double Flowers. 
X. T he P ! aces. The fit ft, or Great oil 1 1 'i/d 
Kinds, grow among Corn in many Countries beyond 
Sea, but lor its Beauty, is brought to us, and nou- 
rished in our Gardens. The third. Or Lejfer H'iH 
Kind, grows in ieveral f ields of our own Country. 
The Spanijh Kind was brought to us in Seeds, and 
grow alfo In our Gardens. The firft Double and 
Single have been common for many Years in all 
Counties of England -, bur the tall Upright ftngle 
Kinds have been made Natives but of late Years : 
and of them all, the Double Kinds are the moft 
rare. 
XI. The Times. The Spanijh Kind flowers very 
late, fo that many times in England the Winter takes 
it before it can give ripe Seed. The other Kinds 
flower in the Summer Months onlv. The Double 
Kinds, as well the Upright, as the Wild or Common, 
ate very choice and tender, many times not yielding 
g°°fl Seed. The fixth Kind flowers according- to 
the time of fowing it, fooner or later, in July or 
Auguft ; and many times Plants come up of tliem- 
felves from the Seeds fallen out of the Pods before 
Winter, w hich hat e continued and born fad double 
Floweis in June following, which have brought a- 
gain much- good Seed. The ufual time toSow thefe 
Seeds m, is the beginning of April : but to get 
good Seed, ( which is a chief Coniideration in thefe 
Plants-) you ought to fow them as foon as they are 
ripe, in fome 'place where they may be defended 
from long Frolts in Winter; and one of thefe Win- 
ter Plants 'is worth ten of thofe raifed in the Spring, 
and Will yield fnore good Seed ; yet in fome kindly 
Sommers thofe of the Spring will feed reafonably 
well. 
XII. Tel/on Larks-Hecls , called Delphinium lu- 
tcum, which is Nufturtium lndicum , Mr. Rea, in 
his Ceres, puts into the Claffis of Larks-Spurs, and 
deferibes them in the following Words. The Root, 
which peri fncs in Winter, fends forth many 
/pleading long trailing Branches, jour or five feet 
/eng, which un/ejs Jupported , lye on the Ground. \ 
and take up much Room. The Leaves are fmooth 
and round the Flowers of a fair yellow Color, in 
falljion fomething like to a Single Larks-Ueel, ’but 
-he Leaves ltand plainer, and fome of them are 
Wreaked with ied. The Flower is fo well known, 
that it is needlels to be over-curious in deferibing 
t, for few Gardens of any Note are without it. 
The Seeds are rough and uneven, falling of them- 
felves, which are gathered ofl the Ground and pre- 
ferred. 
XIII. Place and Time. They were firft brought 
y Alonardus from the Weft Indies ; now they grow 
n almolt all our Gardens throughout England. It 
flowers in July , and the Plant continues flowering 
till it is checkt by irolts. The Seed is fown in A- 
pnl, and it it is ripe and good, will be apt enough 
to come up : and the trailing Branches, as they 
grow,, may be laid upon a Pack-thread faltned up- 
on Sticks, into n hat form you pleafe ; 'or they 
may be bound unto Rods ftuck' in the Earth, that 
they may not lye upon the Ground. But we fhall 
lay no more of this Indian Plant, becaufe we have 
already difeourfed of it in a Chapter by it felf, vis:. 
Chap. 164. aforegoing. 
XIV. To theie Mr. Rea, in the place cited, adds 
another Larks-Spur, which is half amino ftemina 
and deferibes it in thefe Words. It has a Root which 
dies at the firfi approach of Winter. The Stalks are 
thick and reddifh, like Purflane, bunched, and fet 
with Leaves, like thofe of the Peach-Tree. About 
the Stalk, from the middle upwards, come the 
Flowers on Ihort Fcot-ftalks, which are of two or 
three Shadows of Purples, with Spurs behind, like 
Single Larks-Heels , but bending downwards. Thefe 
fldwets are fucceeded by round rough Heads, point- 
ed at the end, in which are contained imall round 
blackilll Seeds. Tile Flowers come fortli in July 
and Auguft, but rarely yield any good Seed in Eng- 
land. The Plant is tender, and mud be fowed in 
a hoc Bed, and removed into good Ground and 
carefully attended with Watering in the Fleat of 
Summer, elfe it will quickly perifh. Of this we 
have alfo wrote before, in a Chapter by it felf vise. 
Chap. 52. Set!, a. where there is a Difcourfe’oflt 
.at large, fo that we (hall fay no more of it in this 
place. 
XV. As to the Qualities, Specification , Prepara- 
tions, and Virtues of Latks-Spur, thofe fix firft Plants 
Which are properly fo called* Authors have laid no- 
thing. But Gerard fays, they are temperate and 
warm of Nature : and he fays, that the Seed of 
Larks-Spur drank, (I iiippofe he means it to be in 
Pouder) is good againlt the Stinging of Scorpions : 
and that fome make it to be one of the Kinds’ of 
Confounds or Comfries . 
XVI. It is alfo to be noted, That tho’ Tome have 
given to Larks-Spur, the Name of Monks-Hood y 
lyet it is not that poyfonous Monks-Hood or Helmet- 
flower, of which we fully difeourfed in its place 
in Chap. 459. aforegoing. 
XVII. Plcnners of Larks-Spur. Croltius lays. 
That three or more of the Flowers eaten, are good 
againlt Pains and Stitches of the Side. And Brun- 
feifius lays. That the Flowers help the Rednefs of 
the Eyes, Heat of the Body, Coughs, Strangury, 
Stoppage of Urine by Gravel and Sand, and give 
Eale in the Sciatica. CHAP. 
