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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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floures; the which being paft, there follow flat and rough huskes, of a whitifh colour, in fhape like 
little targets or bucklers, wherein is contained flat feed, like to the feeds of (lock Gillofloures, bur 
bigger. The whole hnskc is of the fame fubftance, fafhion, and colour that thofe are of the white 
Sat tin. 
The Place. 
Thefe Plants ate fovvne now and then in Gardens, efpecially for the rarenefle of the m ; the 
feede becing brought out of Spainc and Italy , from whence I receiued fome for my Garden. 
The Time. 
They floure and flourifh in May ; the feede is ripe in Auguft, the fecond yeare after theit 
flowing. 
The Names. 
MadwoortjOr Moontvoort is called of the Grecians a»«k or»'x»«». : of theLatines i^lyjfum: in 
Englifh, Galens Madwoort:offome,Heale-dog: and it hath the name thereof,becaufleitis apre- 
fent remedy for them that are bitten ofa mad dogge, as Galen writeth;who in his fecond booke De 
e^intidotis, in Antoninus Com his compofition defleribeth it in thefe words : Madwoort is an herbe 
very like to PIorehound,butrougher,and more full of prickles about the floures:it beareth a floure 
rending to blew. 
2 The fecond by Dodonx us,Lobellfiamerarius and others, is reputed to bee the ^dlyffon of 
Diofcvr ides -Gc/hcr mames it Lunariaafj/era • andColumna.Lettcoium CMontanum Lunatum . $ 
<J[ The T emper attire and Vert ties . 
Galen faith it isgiuenvntofuchasare imaged by the biting ofa mad dogge.which thereby are 
A perfeftly cured, as is knovvne by experience^ ithout any artificiall application or method at all. 
The which experiment if any fliall prone, he fhall finde in the working thereof. It is of tempera- 
ture meanly drie,digefteth and fomething fcoureth withall.-for this caufe it taketh away themor- 
phew and Sun-burning, as the fame Aurhouraffirmeth. 
t That which was formerly deferibed in the fecond place, being a kindcofSiderifw, I hauchere omitted, that I maygiueyou it moreficl'j atnongfl the re® 
ofehat name amt kindred hereafter. 
Chap. 125 . Of %fe Qampion. 
Lychnis Chalccdonica. 
Floure of Conftantinople. 
TheKindes . 
'TT’Herebediuers forts of Rofe Campions - fome of 
"* the Garden, and others of the Field : the which fhal 
be diuided into feuerall chaptersiand fir ft of the Cam- 
pion of Conftantinople. 
The Defcription. 
T Hc Campion of Conftantinople hath fundryvp-' 
right ftalks,two cubits high and ful of ioynts, with 
a certaine roughnefle ; and at euery ioynt two large 
IcaueSjOf a browne greene colour. T he floures grow at 
thetoplike Sweet-Williams, or rather like Dames vi- 
olets, of the colour of red lead, or Orenge tawny. The 
root is fomewhat fharpe in tafte. 
$ There are diuers varieties ofthis,asvvith white 
and blufh coloured floures, as alio a double kinde with 
very large, double and beautiful floures ofa Vermelion 
colour like as the Angle one here deferibed. $ 
•[J The Place. 
The floure of Conftantinople is planted in Gar- 
dens, and is very common almofteuerie where. 
$ The white and blufh Angle, and the double one 
are more rare.and not to be found but in theGardensof 
our prime Florifts. $ • 
«[J The Time. 
It floureth in Iune and Inly , the fecond yeafe 
after it is planted , and many yeares after ; for it 
confifteth 
