47 1 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
IB. i. 
doth purge choler by the ftoole, and it is good for them that are ftung or bitten of any venomous 
beail. 
-j- The figure that was in the firft place, and was intended for our ordinary wildeCampion.istha: which you fee here in the eighth place ; and thofethat were 
in thefixth and eighth places you (hall hereafter fiwdc with Mufapttln or Catch-fly, whereto they ate of affinnic. That figure which was in the ninth place, out of 
Jabctn. vnder the rule o S Lychnis plumsrh, asalfo the defenption, I haue omitted as impertinent: for the figure '2a«hiwfhimfcltc(who correftrd .nd againefetforth 
the Workes of Td&rr/tftworitJBiM) could not cell what to make thereof ; but qucltions, jijaid/tt ? an MufcipulaJloTemRfcofc ? Which ifitbc, you fliaJlfindr that plane 
hereafter defertbed, vnder the title a£Stfamoidts wag turn Salmanttcum : for out Authors defeription it is not woith the fpeakmg of s being framed ondy from ima- 
gination. 
$ C hap. izS. Of diners other wide Campions. 
i 7 he Defeription. 
^ i nr He firft of thefe which we here giue you is like in Ieaues,ftalkes, roots, and manner 
-1 ofgrowingvntotheordinariewilde Campion deferibed in the firft place of the 
precedent Chapter- but the floures are very double, compofedofa greatmany redleaues thicke 
packt together, and they are commonly fet in a fhort and broken huske or cod. Now the fimili- 
tude that thefe floures haue to the iagged cloath buttons anciently worne in this kingdome gaue 
occafion to our Gentlewomen and other loners of floures in thofe times to call them Bachelours 
Buttons. 
2 This differs not in fhape from the Iaft deferibed, but only in the colour of the floures, which 
in this plant are white. 
£ i Lychnis fyl. multiplex purpurea. 
Red Bachelors Buttons, 
$ 2 Lychnis fyl. alba multiplex. 
White Bachelors B uttons. 
5 Neither in roots,!eaues, or ftalkes is there any difference betweene this either degenerate 
or accidental! varietie of Bachelors buttons, from the two laft mentioned ; onely the floures here- 
of are of agreenifh colour, and fometimes through tire middeft of them they fend vp ftalkes, bea- 
ting alfo tufts of the like double floures. 
4 This (faith Clufius ) hath fibrous roots like to thofe ofPrimrofes • out ofwhich come leaues. 
