Chap. <56 4. ‘Engltjh Tierbs. lope 
Jhirc , but they are alfo generally Planted in j 
Gardens. | 
XVI. TheTimes. The Arabian flowers in May, 
and fometimes in June. The A Ethiopian flowers 
in Auguft, or the end thereof. The Jmall Spanijh 
flowers in April and May. The Neapolitan, tho’ 
it oftentimes begins to Spring out of the Ground 
in November, but moft ufually in January , yet it 
flowers not till May , and the Seed is ripe in July. 
The Hungarian flowers in May, and fometimes 
in June. All the relt flower from the middle of 
April , and fometimes fooner, to June, and the 
Seed is ripe in the Months following. 
XVII. T be Cultivation. It is to be oblerved, 
1. That the Roots of thefe Plants loofe their 
f ibres quickly, and they may be taken Up out of 
the Ground, as fbon as their Stalks ate dry, and 
fo kept till the end of September, except thofe of 
the Yellow, which will not endure out of the 
Earth, but a little time. 
XVIII. 2. As thefe Plants are only or chiefly 
multiplyed by their Bulbs, which encreafe in a- 
bundauce in the Summer time ; fo they are to be 
Planted in an Earth compoled of two thirds 
Mould, and one third light Earth full of Salts, 
fuch as ate fome blackifh Sands, which by the 
produftions they yield , you may ealily find 
have a great deal of fubftar.ee in them. 
XIX. 3. The Arabian, ^Ethiopian , Spanijh 
and Neapolitan, or others which com^ from hot 
Countries, as they are tender and will not endure 
our long, cold, and frolfy Winters, fo they ought to 
be Planted in Boxes, in rich, hot, dry Sandy Earth, 
and Houfed in Winter, and are to be expofed to 
the greateft heat of the Sun , for which reafon 
they are rather to be put in Pots or Boxes, than 
into the firm Ground ; and fo they are ealy to he 
removed from place to place, and put tilde which 
belt fuits with their Natures. 
XX. 4. The Time of Planting the Bulbs is 
in the Month of September : they are to be put in- 
to the Earth 2 inches deep, and to be well watered 
when you think they want it. The Fellow, may 
be fet among other tender Roots, which require 
to be covered, and defended from Frolts in Winter : 
all the reft are hardy, and may be fet in any place, 
among other Roots which loofe their Fibres. 
XXI. 5. Thofe kinds which are very apt to 
be after ted with cold, you are to be very careful of 
when Winter approaches, and to place them in 
your Green Houfe, that the Cold and Froft may 
not hurt or injure them. Thefe Star-flowers will 
not bear to be often ttanfplanted : and when you 
do it, you mull flay, till its flower is quite paft, 
and its Seed ripe, and then being removed at the 
Timejnentioned, they will fhoot forth newRoots. 
XXII. Their Qualities, Specijication, Prepara - 
tions, and Virtues , as Phyficully confidered. Au- 
thors have taken no notice of, norate they known 
to have any Medical properties ; but are rather 
of Ornamental ufe, for the adorning of Gardens, 
for which caufe, and the fakes of fuch as are ad- 
mirers of all forts of flowers, we have inferted 
them in this Our Herbal, that it might not have a 
deficiency in thofe things, which a great many 
Ladys and Gentlemen fo Angularly affeft. 
XXIII. Yet Tragus fjys, that the Roots of the 
Star-flower (1 fuppofe he means thofe of the com- 
mon kind) totted in hot Embers, and made into 
a Cataplafm with Honey, and fo applyed, heals 
old eating Ulcers, and l'oftens and difcufles hard 
Tumors. By their Signature, they may be fup- 
pofed to be good againft Serophulous and Strumous 
Tumors, and Ulcers of the Kings-Evil. 
XXIV Matthiolus fays, that the fi.lt or 1 om‘ 
mon kind, are much eaten by poor people in 
Italy, both raw and rotted, being fweeter in Tafte 
ihun any Cheftnur, and ferve as well for a necef- 
fary food for the Belly, as for delight and Giro- 
mtnr in the Garden : Bur whether any of the reft 
may be fo uled, is as yec unknown. 
CHAP DCLXIV. 
Of S T A R W O II T: 
o it, 
bubo-grass. 
L A lam! • Ir is called in Greek ’Arif, *) 
X in Latine, After, Bubomum, and 
Ingumalu: in Englilh, Starwort and Bubo-wort. 
11. Ike Kinds. Authors have given us be- 
tween twenty and thirty kinds of this Plant, but 
the molt ot them growing in Foreign Places, and 
icarcely ever to he come at by us, we (hall here 
give you only fuch as either grow in Our Gardens 
at home, or in fome of Our Floridan Plantations 
in America, or Weft-Indies, which are the nine 
following viz. 1. 'A rifift,®-. After Aniens, 
(la called I fuppofe from the place, viz. Athens 
where it grew in great Plenty) After Atticus if 
tens vei ns. After Atticus Leghimm, Herba Stel- 
lan a Bubomum and Inguinal is. The true After 
Attick, or Yellow Starwort. 2. After Atticus 
It alorum After Atticus flore purpureo, vel flore 
ceruleo. Purple Italian Starwort, or the Purple 
Marigold. 3. After Conyzoides Lobe/ij, Fleabane 
like Starwort. 4. After Virgin, amis latifolius lu- 
nu* repens, (called by the Natives, Aquafcom- 
enje) Yellow creeping Starwort of Virginia, v. 
Alter Virgin, anus lute us caule mcmbranaceo Yel- 
low Starwort ofVirginia with a Skinny Stalk. (, 
After Virginianus htteus alter minor, A lelfer Yel 
low Starwort of Virginia. 7. After Virginianus 
latiyoltus pracocwr flore parvo purpurante The 
more early broad Leav’d Purplilli Virginian’Star- 
wort. 8. After Virginianus attguftifolius feroti- 
"“s flore parvo albente , The later flowering nar- 
rovv Leav’d Virginian Starwort. 9. After minor An- 
gift, Johns ■, After minor Narbonenfium flore Tri- 
poli; Lobelij ; After minor purpureus folio medio 
Ltnarite. The Idler Purple Starwort, or French 
Purple Starwort. 
The Defcriptions, 
III. The firft ot true After Attick, or Yellow 
Starwort. Its Root is Fibrous conjifting of a 
Bunch of Strings, of a Jharp and biting Tafte 
dying every year after Seed time is over. It rifei ul 
with two or three rough hairy Stalks a foot and half 
high, with long rough or hairy brownilh dark green 
Leaves on them, dwidedinto two or three Branches- 
at the Top of every one of which grows a flat Sea'y 
head, compared underneath with five or fix Ion « 
brown rough green Leaves fhniing like a Star 
the flower it fe!J ft ending in the middle thereof 
is made as a border of narrow, long, pale yellow 
Leaves, fet with brownijh yellow Thrums. ’ 
IV. Gerard 
