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gella we have alfo Til our Gardens, proceeding firft 
from Seed font from other more Southern Countries : 
but it differs fo little from the other Annual forts , 
that it can f candy be differ ned, except it be in the 
frejher greennefs of the heaves, before it comes to 
Flower, which then is fmall like the Nigella Ro- 
mans drvenfis, or Wild Katherin Flower in Chap. 
410. Se£t. 6 . aforegoing of this Bock-, but of a 
white color. The heads alfo are fmall, but formed 
alike, having f mailer Seed within them, not black as 
others are , but ycllowifh , and without fmell, and 
herein it is fame thing like the double white Kind 
deferibed in Sefr. 8. following. 
VII. The fifth, or blew Nigella with a double 
Flower. Its Root is fmall and yellow, perifhing 
every Tear, as the others do: from which fpring 
forth fever al Green Leaves, finely cut, and into 
fo many parts, that they are finer than Fennel, and 
divided fomewhat like to the Leaves of Larks- heel, 
from among which rife up Stalks with many fucb like 
Leaves upon them. Branched forth into fever al 
parts, at the tops of which , upon each grows one 
fair large Flower , which confifts of three or four 
rows of Leaves y laid one upon another , of a pale 
blew color, with a green round Head, compaffed with 
fever al fhort threads in the midft, and having five or 
fix fuch fmall green Fennel like Leaves, under 
the Flower, to bear it up (as it to ere) below, ad- 
ding thereby a greater grace to the Flowers , which 
at the firfi few fometimes white , but quickly after 
change. The horned Heads hereof are like to the 
Heads of the Wild Kind , which are fomewhat 
rounder and greater, having within them black 
uneven Seeds , without the leaft Smell. 
Nigella Blew double B lower'd. 
VIII. The fixth , or white Nigella double 
Flowered. Its Root is yellow, and perifhes every 
Tear, at the other does. This double white Ni- 
gella, has fuch like Leaves as the la ft has, but of 
a yellower green color, and much larger and broader 
and very much jagged, being nothing like the fine 
cut of the former, as you may perceive in the fugle 
Leaf of this Riant placed near the bottom of the 
Gut , belonging to that lafit deferibed in Sect. 7. 
aforegoing. The Flowers are fomewhat lefs , and 
leffer double than the former , and in color white 
having no green Leaves under the Flower, as the for- 
mer h. w : the Head whereof in the middle, is very like 
alfo to that of 'the la/I deferibed, but not fo great - 
in which is contained for the moft part black Seed 
and fuelling fweet like the Roman Nigella in 
Chap. 410. Se£L 4. aforegoing -, which is the only 
fweet Scented be fide s this : but the Seed of this 
is fometimes not fo black, but father a little more 
white, or yellowifh. 
IX. The feventh , or Wild Nigella. It has a 
long fender Root, with many long ft rings and Fi- 
bers adjoining to it, which penfh every Winter. 
The Stalk or Stalks, are a Foot or more high, befet 
full, of grayifh Leaves, very finely jagged,\lmo(i 
like the Leaves of Dill ■, the t lowers are like to 
Nigella Wild. 
thofe of the firfi or Garden Kind deferibed at Seft. %. 
aforegoing in this Chapter, excepting that thefe 
are b/eaer. The Cods or Tods are Tike the Heads: 
or Husks of Columbines, in which is contained a 
fweet and pleafmg Seed , tho ’ not fo fweet fmelling 
as the lafi. 
X. The Tlaces. The firft is the Garden Kind, 
and grows with us in Gardens, and fo do all the 
other fix Kinds : which in Candia , Italy, and other 
hot Countries grow Wild in the Fields, 
XI. The Times. They are all Annually to be 
Sown in the Spring, if they do not Sow themfelveSj 
they Flower in June or July, and the Seed is ripe 
in Auguft. 
'XII, Thi 
