Lib. l. Of he Hiflory of Plants. 2^5 
great a quantitie, purgeth and fcoureth euen vnto blond, and is hurtfull to women with child and 
therefore great care is to be had in giuing them inwardly ip any great quantitie. 
Chap. 20, Of Qandie uflard. • 
The Vefcriptior). 
C Andie milliard excellethall the reft,as well for the comely floures that it bringeth forth for 
the decking vp of gardens and houfes,as alfo for that it goeth beyond tire reft in his phyfi- 
call vertues. It nfeth vp with a very brittle lfalke of a cubit high, which diuideth it felfe in 
to fundrybowes or branches, fetwith leaueslike thofeof ftocke gilli floures, Of a gray or ouer- 
wornegryene colour.The floures grow at the top ofthes fta!keroundt,hicke cluftering together 
like thole of Scabious or diuels bir,fometimes blew, often purple, carnation or horfe fleftr but fef 
dome white for any thing that I haue feen- varying according to the foile or Clymate The feed 
is reddifh,fharpe,and biting the tongue, wrapped in little huskes fafhionedlike an heart ± There 
is a lefl'er variety of this with white well fmelling flowers, in other refpedts little differing from 
the ordinary. $ s ° 
1 The Place. 
This growes naturally in fome places ofAuftria,as alfo in Candy, Spaine,& Italy, from whence 
I receiued feeds by the liberality of the right Honorable the Lord Edward Zouch, at his returne 
into England front thofe parts. ^ Clufius found the later as he trauelled through Switzerland in- 
to Germany, t The Time. 
It floureth front the beginning of May vnto the end of September^at which time you fhall 
haue floures and feeds vpon one branch, lome ripe,ond fome that will not ripen at all. 
The Name.- • 
t This plant is called by D6donetus(bnt not rightly) /Irakis and nr aba : as al (oTblafpi Candid.' 
which laft name is reteined by moft writers : in Englifh,Candy Thlafpi,or Candy Milliard, t 
The T emperature. 
The feed of Candie Milliard is hot and drie at the end of the third degree, as is that called Sco. 
yodothlafjti^ or treacle milliard.' ^ ^ 
