Of the Hiftory of Plants. LabTiT 
1 ‘ baue in our London gardens a kinde hereof bearing moft fine and pleafant white floures, 
fpotted very confufedly with reddith fpots, which fetteth forth the beauty thereof; and hath bin 
taken of fome (but not rightly) to be the plant called of the later Writers Superb a Aujlriac.1,01 the 
Prideof Auftria. $ It is now commonly in moft places called London-Pride. t 
t Wee haue likewife of the fame kinde bringing forth moft double floures, and thefe ei- 
ther very white, or elfe of a deepc purple colour. 
3 Armeria rubra Ltifolia. 
Broad leaued Sweet-Williams. 
4 Armeriafuaue rubens. 
Narrow leaued Sweet-Williams. 
3 The great Sweet-William hath round ioynted ftalkes thicke and fat, fomewhat reddifh 
about the lower ioynts, a cub it high, with long broad and ribbed leaues like as thofe of the Plan- 
taine, ofagreenegraffic colour. The floures at the top of the ftalkes are very like to the fmall 
Pinkes,many ioyned together in one tuft orfpoky vmbel,ofa deepered colour: the root is thick 
andwooddy. 
4 The narrow leaued Sweet-William groweth vp to the height of two cubits,very wel refem- 
bling the former, but Idler, and the leaues narrower : the floures are of a bright red colour , with 
many fmall fharpe pointed graffie leaues Handing vpamongft them, wherein elpecially confifteth 
the difference. 
t 5 This little fruitfull Pinke (whole figure our Author formerly gaue in the firft placeof 
the next chapter faue one) hath a fmall whitifh wooddy root, which fends forth little (talks fome 
handful! and better high ; and thefe at each ioynt are fet with two thinne narrow little leaues : at 
the top ofeach of thefe ftalkes growes a (ingle skinny fmooth fhining huske,outof which (as in 
other Pinkes) growes not one onely floure, but many, one (till comming out as another withers ■ 
fo that oft times out of one head come feuen, eight, or nine floures one after another, which as they 
fadeleauebehinde them a little pod containing fmall blacke flattifh feed. The floure is of a light 
red, and very fmall, Handing with the head fomewhat far out of the hofe orhuske. t 
The Place. 
Thefe plants are kept and maintained in gardens more for to pleafe the eye, than either the nofe 
or belly. 
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