Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 2. 
2 The other golden floure of Peru is like the former, fauing that it is altogether lower, and the 
leaues more iagged,and very few in number . 
3 The male floure of the Sunof the fmaller fort hath a thicke root, hard, and of a wooddy-fub- 
fiance, with many threddie firings annexed thereto, from which riferh vp a gray or ruflet ft alke,to 
the height of flue or fix cubits, of the bigneffe of ones arme, whereupon ate let great broad leaues 
with long foot-ftalkes,very fragill or eafie to breake,of an ouerworne greene colour, fharp pointed, 
and fomevvhat cut or hackt about the edges like a faw : the floure groweth at the top of the ftalks, 
bordered about with a pale of yellow leauesrthe thrummed middle part is blacker than that of the 
laft deferibed. The whole floure is compaifed about likewife with diuersfuch ruflet leaues as 
thofeare that do grow lower vpon the ftalks, but lefferand narrower. The plant and cilery part ther- 
of doth fmell of Turpentine, and the floure yeeldeth forth moft cleere Turpentine, as my felfe hauc 
noted diners yeares. The feed isalfo long and blacke,with cettaine lines or ftrakes of white run- 
ning alongft the lame. The roote and euery part thereof perilheth when it hath perfected his 
feed, 
4 The female or Marigold Sun floure hath a thicke and wooddie root, from which rifeth vp a 
ftraight ftem,diuiding it felfe into one or more branches, fet with fmooth leaues fharpe pointed, 
fleightly indented about the edges. The floures grow at the top of the branches, of a faint yellow 
colour, the middle part is of a deeper yellow tending toblacknefle,of the forme and fbape ofa fin- 
gle Marigold, whereupon I bane named it the Sunne Marigold. Thy feed as yet I haue not obfer- 
ued. 
The Place. 
Thefc plants do grow of thcmfelues without fettingor fowing,in Peru, and in diners other pro- 
uinces of America, from whence the feeds hatiebeene brought into thefe parts of Europe There 
hath been feen in S paine and other hot regions a plant fowne and nouriihed vp from feed ,to attain 
to the height of 2 4. foot in one yeare. 
The Time. 
The feed muft be fet orfownein th e beginning of Aprill if the weather be temperate, inthe 
moft fertile ground that may be,and where the Sun hath moft power the whole day. 
The Names. 
The floure of the Sun is called in Latine FlosSolis, takingthat name from thofe that haue re- 
ported it to turne with the Sun, the which l could neuer obferue, although I haue endeuored to 
findeout the truth of it ; but I rather thinke itwas focalled becaufe it doth refemble the radiant 
beamesofthe Sun, whereupon fome haue called it Corona Solis, and Sol Indianus, the Indian Sunne 
floure : others haue called it Chrysanthemum Perunianum, or the golden floure of Peru : in Englilh, 
the floure of the Sun,or the Sun floure. 
The Temperature. 
They are thought to be hot and dry of complexion, 
rhe Ve rtues. 
A There hath not any thing been fet downe either of the antient or later writers concerning the 
vertues of thefe plants, notwithftanding we haue found by trial!, that the buds before they be flou- 
red,boiled and eaten with butter, vineger,and pepper, after the manner of Artichokes, Are excee- 
ding pleafant meat, furpafling the Artichoke far in procuring bodilydUft. 
B The fame buds with the (talks neere vnto the top(the hairine'fltbking taken away)broiled vpoa 
a gridiron, and afterward eaten with oile,vineger, and pepper,haue the like. property . 
) 
Chap. z6o. Of feruftlem <*Artkboke. 
f~\Ne may wcl by the Englifh name of this plant perceiue that thofe that vulgarly impofe names 
'^vpon plants haue little cither iudgement or knowledge of them. Forthis plant hath no limi- 
Iitude in leafe,ftalke,root or manner of growing with an Artichoke, butonely a little fimilitudc 
oftafte in thedrefled root 3 neither cameitfrom Ierufalem oroutof Afia, but out of America, 
whence F alius Columns, one of the firft fetters of it forth fitly names it ^fier Penmianus tuberofus, 
and Flos foils Farne/ianus, becauCc it io much relembles the Flos fold, and for that he firft obferued it 
growing in the garden of Cardinall Farneflus, who had procured roots thereof from the Weft In- 
dies. Pelliteriu-s calls this fleliotropium Indicumtuberofum ; and Baahinus in his Prodromes fets this 
forth by thenameof Cbryfwthemiimlatifolium Brafilianum-.but inhisBi».i,vhc hath it by the name 
