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woort: The floures ftandattL top of the fpringie branches forth of long cunsorhLL! ~r 
fling of eight or ten fmall leaues, yellow vnderneath, on the vpper fide ofa deeper vel low t 
to the colon: ofa darke crimfon veluet,as alfofoft in handfi^rburS 
words, it is not : poflible.but this way. lay vpon paper with a pcnfill a yellow colour called M la" *“ 
which being dry, lay the fame ouer with a little faffron fteeped in water or wine 
4 Flos Jphricamts minor fimflici florc. 
The final! French Marigold. 
y The Place, 
They are cheriflied and fowne In gardens 
euery yeere .- they grow cuery where almoft in 
Africke of thctafelues, from whence we firft 
had them, and that was when Charles the fifth 
tmperour of Rome made a famous conqueft 
ol TuniSjwhereupon it was called Flos ^ Ahri - 
can us ,or Flos Tunc farms . “ 
The Time. 
A T n -/P r° r e f °"' ne in the be g‘iining of 
April 'if the feafon fall out to be warme.other. 
r[llh C m raUft a ber u' VnCln 3 bcd of dung,as 
fhall be fhewed in the chapter of Cucumbers 
fbey bring forth their pleafant floures very 
late, and therefore there is the more diligence 
to do v fed to tow them very earely,becaufe they 
] ? 0C ,b c °»crtaken with the frofl before 
their feed be ripe. 
% The Name, 
es. 
■ TP C ^*”£ anc or Frcnc b Marigold is called 
^n£a tC r^ U "‘ 0 Wo «»Kn tin high Dutch 
3ntandiA ncgclitl, that is.tbe flourc or Gil! 
ofloure of India: in Latin ^Cariofhsllus Ini 
; whereupon the French men call it o allots, 
of 'U , •?^ Ca ! Ieth k Tsnacctum Pernvianum, 
and of p C n thC eanc ? Ilaue Tanfie 
and of Peru a Prouince of America , from 
1 hence hee thought, it may be, it was firft 
Afhncam, and faith that it is called in the Carthageniantongue pTdua^'t bnmwouM h**’ U ^ 
Petilius flos Plinij, but not properly : for Pctiliusflosh an fimne floure^ K , t0be 
and brambles. Andreas Lacuna callcth it othonna , which is acertaine herlu> bners 
growing in that part of Arabiawhich lieth toward’ jX t lea Si? of h 
they were eaten with mothes.Catoi in his firft booke “ ' th ^ 
mention of an herbe called Lyceper(lcum,the juice whereof a certain Centurion d I aedlcines > n «keth 
baric all dSgypt ouer with fo ranckea lmell, and to Iorhfome as r r if a c 3ty outof Bar- 
*> •* f KL; conj.W .0 be *,d, y , ve, “^ 31^ 
Fines of the joints, and itfeemeth to the patients themfelnes to beofa verv roM r/m 
but doubrlcflc of a poifonfome quality,very neere to that ofhemlockes. * d temperature ; 
«[ The Temperature and Pert ucs. 
The ynpleaftmt fmell,efpeckll that common fort with firsle floures tr . , , , 
like to that ofHemlocke, Inch as the juice of Lycoperfinm had) doth fheiv rfi /• l '^ etbtfle Fead 
and cooling qualitie ; and alfo thefame is manifefted by diners exnertmen J to 1 !^ P° l [ on ^ 
Dodonaus, that I didfeeaboy vvhofe lippes and mouth when hebmin • r I remember, faith 
fwell extremely . as it hath often happened vnto them tlm Mavinunr ' W u hc 3ures did 
ol HemlockeSjdo hold them a while between their lippes • likewife he Efrh S qU1,S ° r kcKS 
floures with their cups, tempered with frefh cheefe fhp forrliw.vi, 6 • u t ^ W ? gauero a cattll<: 
while after died : a! to mice that haue eaten of the feed thereof haue y Jj Cl j d ’ anda,ittIe 
.UngsdodeCrcI,.,.,,:, hcbci.of. 
