4.68 Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
Lib. 2. 
t 3 Lychnis coronariamultiplex. 
Double Rofe Campion. 
The? luce. 
The Rofe Campion growes plentifully 
in moft gardens. 
ThcTime. 
They floure from Iune to the end of Au- 
guft. 
T he N times. 
The Rofe Campion is called in Latine 
Dommartim Soft, CMarianaRofa, CoeliRtfa, 
Ca-lijlos : (>{' D.'ofcondes , .that 
is ^Lychnis Coromria,ot Satina : Gai{a tranfla- 
teth wife, LuccrnuU , becaufe the leaues 
thereof be foft,and fit to makeweekes for 
candles, acccording to the teftimonie of 
Diofcorides it was called Lychnis , or Lych- 
nides, that is,a torch, or fucli like light , ac- 
cording to the fignification of the word, 
cleere, bright, and light-giuing floures! 
and therefore they were called the Gard- 
ners Delight, or the Gardeners Eye: in 
DutchCbliftCS ete : in French, Outlets, & 
oeilets Dim in high-Dutch,^arittUOf= 
?ltn, and ^tmmelcofjltti, 
IT TheTemperature. 
The feed of Rofe-Campion, faith Galen , 
is hot and dry after a fort in the fecond de- 
gree. 
The Virtues . 
A The feed drunken in wine is a remedie for them that are Rung with a Scorpion as D M grides 
teftifieth. - * 5 J 
Chap. 127. Of mlde %)fc-Qcimfions. 
sy The Dtcfcription. 
1 *-p He vvilde Rofe-Campion hath many rongli broad leaues fomewhat hoary and woolly • 
among winch tile vp long loft and hairy ftalkcs branched into many arrnes , let with 
the like leaues, but lefler. The floures grow at the top of the ftalkcs, compact of fiue leaues of a 
reddifh colour : the root is tbicke and large, with fome threds anexed thereto. 
t There alfo growes commonly wilde with vs another of this kinde,with white floures, as alfo 
another that hath them of a light blufh colour. £ 
2 The lea Role Campion is a fmall herbe, let about with many grecne leaues from the lower 
part vpward; which leaues are thicke, fomewhat lefler and narrower than the leaues of fea Pur- 
ilane. t hath many crooked ftalkes flpred vpon the ground, a foot long ; in the vpper part wherc- 
ofthere is a fmall white floure, in fafhion and fhape like a little cup or box,after the likenefle of 
Behen album, or Sparling Poppy , hauingwithin the laid floure little threds of a blacke colour, in 
tafte fait, yet not vnplealant. 
It is reported vnto me by a Gentleman one W. 7 ho. Hesket, that by the feafidein Lancafhire, 
from whence this plant came, there is another fort hereof with red floures. 
$ 3 This brings many ftalkes from oneroot, round, long, andweakerthan thofeofthe firft 
deferibed, lying vfually vpon the ground : the leaues grow by couples at each ioynt, long, (oft, and 
hairy . amongft which alternately grow the floures,about the bigncfTe of thofe of the firft deferi- 
bed, and ofa blufh colour • and they are alfo fucceededby fuch feed-veffels, containing a reddifh 
feed. The root is thicke and fibrous, yet commonly outlines not the fecond yeare. ° 
f X Lychnis 
