Lib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 47I 
4 The fourth kindc of wilde Campions hath long and /lender Items, dniidinw themf'LLT~ 
to fundry other branches, which are full of ioynts, hauing many final! and narrow leaues*^ ^ in " 
ding from thefaid ioynts, and thofeofa whitifh greene colour. The floures doc-rowat the 
the italke, of a whitifh colour on the inner fide, and purplifh on the outer fide, confifti n <r of fi °f 
fmall leaues, euery leafe hauing a cut iathe end, which makoth it of the (hape of a forke - the feed 
is like the wilde Poppy ; the root fomewhat grofle and thicke , which alfo perilheth the f ec0 nd 
ycare. 1 
5 The fifth kinde of wilde Campion hath three or foure foft leaues fomewhat downy lyinc 
flat vpon the ground • among which rifeth vp an hairy afh-coloured ftalke, diuided into diners 
branches ; whereupon do grow at certaine fpaces 5 euen in thefetting together of the ftalke and 
branches, fmall and grafle-like leaues, hairy, and of an ouerworne dusky colour, as is all the reft of 
the Plant. The floures grow at the top ofthe branches, compofed of fine fmall forked leaues of 
a bright Chining red colour. T he root is fmall, and ofa wooddy fubftance. 
6 The fixth kinde of wilde Campion hath many long thicke fat and hoary leaues fpred vpori 
theground, in fhapeand fubftance likethofeof the garden Campion, bitt of a very dully oner 
worne colour : among which rifevp fmall and tender ftalkes fet at certaine defiances by couples 
with fuch like leaues as the other, but (mailer. The floures do grow ac the top ofthe ftalks in lit- 
tle tufts like thofe of fiveec Williams , of a red colour. The root is fmall , with many threddv 
firings faftned to it. 1 1 
t 7 This growes fome cubit high, with ftalkes diftinguifhed with fundry joynts , at each 
wliereofare fet two leaues, greene, fharpe pointed, and fomewhat ftiffe.-the floures grow at the 
tops ofthe branches, like to thofe of Mufcipula or Catch- fly, yet fomewhat bigger, and of a darkc 
red : which paft, the feed (which is afh-coloured, and fomewhat large) is contained in great cups 
or ve (Pels couered with a hard and very muchcrefted skin or filme ; whence it is called Lychnis ca- 
ll culls ftriatis, and not Cmliculis ftnatis, as it is falfly printed in Lobels which fome as foolifh- 
ly hauc followed. The root Angle, and not'large,and dies euery yeare. 3 
8 That which our Author figured in this place had greene leaues and red floures, which no 
way forted with his defeription : wherefore I haue in lieu thereof giuen you oneout’of clafius 
which may fitly carry the title. This at the top of tile large fibrous and liuing root fendeth forth 
many leaues fomewhat greene, and of fome fingers length, growing broader by degrees , and at 
laft ending againe in a fharpe point. The ftalkes are fome cubit high, fet at each ioynt with two 
leaues as it were embracing it with their foot-ftalkes ; which leaues are leffe and leffe as they are 
higher vp, and more fharpe pointed. At the tops of the branches grow the floures, confiflino- of 
fiue white leaues deepely cut in almoft to the middle ofthe floure,and haue two fharpe pointed 
appendices at thebottome of each of them, and fiue chiues or threds come forth of their middles : 
thefewhen they fade contrad and twine themfelues vp, and are fucceeded by thicke and fharpe 
pointed feed-veffels, containing a fmall round Afh-coloured feed. I coniedure that the figure of 
the Lychnis flumaria, which was formerly here in the ninth place out of 7 ahem, might be of this 
plant, as well as of that which Bauhine refers it to, and which you fhali finde mentioned in the end 
of the chapter, £ 
The Place. 
They grow of themfelues neere to the borders of plowed fields,medowes,and ditch banks, com- 
mon in many places. £ I haue obferued none of thefe , the firfland fecond excepted growing 
wilde with vs. i 9 
The fea Campion grdweth by the fea fide in Lancafhire, at a place called Lytham , fiue miles 
.roni W from whence I had feeds fept me by M r . Thomas Hesketh • who hath heard it repor- 
ted, that in the fame place doth grow ofthe fame kinde fome with red floures, which are very rare 
tobefeene. t This plant (inmy laft Kentifh Simplingvoyage, 1632, with M 1 '. Thomas Hickes 
M r . Broad, &c. ) I found growing in great plenty in the low marilTi ground in Tenet that lieth di- 
redly oppofite to the tovvneof Sandwich. $ - 
«j The Time. 
They floifre and flouriflr moll partofthe Sommer euen vnto Autumne. 
«J The Names. 
fbejvilde Campion is called in Greeke , in Latin e,LychnisfylueJlris : in Englifh, wilde 
Rofe Campion. 
«[ The Temperature. 
The temperature of thefe wilde Campions are referred vnto thofe of the garden. 
_ <tj TheVertues. 
i he weight of two drammes of thefeed of Wilde Campion beaten to poilder and drunke, A 
doth 
