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floures of amoft fragrant finell,not inferiour to the Cloue Gjllpfioure. The toot isLrShmd. 
wooddy. 
T There is alfo a Tingle one ofthis kinde,whofe figure I here giue you in Head of the double 
. oneoiour Author. £ 
2 The fingle red Pinke hath likewife many frnall graflie Ieaues IeiTer than the former : The 
floures grow at the top of the fmail ftalkes fingle, and ofa Tweet bright red colour. 
3 The white iagged Pinke hath a tough wooddy root: from which rife immediately many 
graflie Ieaues, fetvpon a fmallftalke full of ioynts or knees, at cilery ioynt two one againft ano- 
ther euen to the top-, whereupon do grow faire double purple floures of a Tweet and fpicie fmell 
confining of fine Ieaues, fometimes more, cut or deepely iagged on rheedges, refembling a fea 
tber : whereupon I gaue it the name Pltimarius, or feathered Pinke. The feed is Toft, blackifh and 
like vnto Onion feed. 3 
T There is another varictie ofthis, with the Ieaues fomewhat larger, and greener than the laft: 
mentioned : the floures alfo arc fomewhat bigger, more cut in or diuided, and ofa much Tweeter 
fmell. f 
4 1 his purple coloured Pinke is very like the precedent in ftalkes, roots, and Ieaues. The 
floures grow at the top of the branches lelfer than the laft deferibed, and. not fo deepely iagged ■ 
ofa purple colour tending to blewnefle, wherein confifteth the difference. b ’ 
1 here be diners forts of Pinks more, whereof to write particularly were to final 1 purpole confi- 
dering they are all well knowne to the moll, ifnot toall. Therefore thefe few fhall ferueat this 
time for thofe that we do keepe in our gardens : notwitb Handing I thinkeit conuenient to place 
thefe wilder lorts in this Tame chapter, confidering their nature and vertues doe agree, and few or 
noneofthembevfed in phyficke,.befides their neereneffe in kindred and neighbourhood. 
4 CaryophyUus plumtrius purpureas . 5 CariophjUus pltimarius (ylaeftris alius. 
Purple jaggea Pinkes. Whitewilde jagged Pinkes. 
S’ This u ilde iagged Pinke hath Ieaues, ftalkes, and floures like vnto the white iagged Pinke 
of the garden, but altogether lefler, wherein they dpecially differ. 
n 6 j T n ,R ;, pU !P !c I f 1 p unt ‘ line °r wilde Pinke hath many Tmall graflie Ieaues : among which rife vp 
en er alks fetvvtth the like Ieaues, but leffer ; on the top whereofdo grow fmail purple floures, 
fitflbed ne ' wlt 1WlUte or elfc ydlo'vifii fpots,and much lefler than any of the others beforede- 
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