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Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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The Time. 
They flonre with the Clone Gillofloure, and often after. 
Names. . 
The Pinke is called of 'Pliny and Turner , Cantabrica and S'taBice : of Fucbf us and Bodonaus, Vcto- 
nicaaltera, and V ctonica altilis : ot Lobelius and Fuchfius, Supcrba ■■ in French, Gy offices, Oei/letz, and 
Violent s herbues : in Italian, Gara/tf//,, and Gttroni : inSpani (h,Clauis .■ in EngIith,Pinkes,and Small 
Honefties. 
tp The Temperature. 
The temperature of the Pinkes is referred vnto the Cloue Gillofloiires. 
TheVertues. 
Thefe are not vfed in Phyficke, but efteemed for their vfe in Garlands and Nofegaies. They 
are good to be put into V ineger, to giue it a pleafant tafte and gallant coIour,as Ruellius writeth. ^ 
Fitchfitn faith, that the roots are commended againfl: the in feci ion of the plague^and that the iuice 
thereof is profitable to wade away the done, and todriueit forth : and likewife to cure them that 
liaue the falling fickneffe. 
Chap. l8^. Of Sweet Saint f ohns and Sweet Williams. 
Armrftaalba. ^ Armeria alba & rubra multiplex, 
\\ hire Iohns. Double white and red Iohns. 
«[ The Befcription. 
1 C ^ eet I°hns haue round ftalkcs as haue the Gillofloiires, (whereof they are a kinde) a 
O cubit high, whereupon do grow long leaues broader than thofeofthe Gillofloure, of a 
greene graflie colour : the floures grow at the top of the ftalkes, verv like vnto Pinks, 
ofaperfea white colour. 1 
otlKt ^ econ( ^ differed! not from the other but in that, that this plant hath red floures, and the 
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