L, i b. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. y< 
o( H elianthemum indium tuber ofum. Alfo our Countreyman M‘ . Parkwfin hath exadtly delittered 
thehiftory ofthisby thcnirntt oi Battatas de Ciinudd , EngliShing it Potatoes of Canada: r.cnvall 
thefe that haue written and mentioned it ? bring it from America, but from far different p!aces,as 
from Peru, Brafil, and Canadaibut this is riot much material, feeing it nowgrowsfowel & plentiful- 
ly info many places of England. I will now deliueryouthe Hiftorie,as I haue receiued it from my 
oft mentioned friend M r .GWyfr,who,as you may fee by the date, took it prefentlv vpOn the firft ar- 
tiuall into England. 1 
r.TheD eferiplidn. 
tlos folis Pyrtimiddlisjarvo flare , tuberofa radices 
Heliofrofium Indicium qv.orundam. 
i 'T" Hiswonderfull increasing plant 
■* hath growingvp from bee root 
one, Sometimes twd, three or more round 
green rough hairy ftraked Stalks, common- 
ly about twelue foot high, Sometimes llx- 
teene loot high or higher, as big as a childs 
arme, full of white fpungious pith within. 
The leaues grow all alcingft the ftalkes out 
of order, of a light green color, tough, lharp 
pointed, about eight inches broad, and ten 
oreleuen inches long, deeply notched or in- 
dented about the edges,very like the leaues 
of the common jlos fold 1‘crtianm, but no- 
thing crompled, and not fo broad. The 
ftalkes diuide themfelues into many long 
branches euen from the roots to therr very 
tops, bearing leaues fmaller and Smaller to- 
vyard the tops, making the herbeappeare 
like a little tree,narrowerand Slenderer to- 
ward the top, in faShion ofafteeple or Py- 
ramide. The floures with vs grow onely at 
the toppesoftbeftalkesand branches, like 
thofeof the faid flos folis, but no bigger than 
our common Single Marigold, cOn Sifting of 
twelue or thirteene ftraked Sharpe pointed 
bright yellow bordering leaues, growing 
foorthofa Scaly fmallhairie head, with a 
Small yellow thrummie matter within. 
Thefe floures by rcafonof their late flou- 
ring.whichis commonly two or three weeks 
after Michaelmas, neuer bring their feed to 
perfection, & itmaketh fliew of abundance 
. of fmall beads neere the tops of the ftalkes 
and branches forth of the bofomes of the 
leaues, whiah neuer open and flourc with vs, by reafon they are destroyed with the frofts, which o- 
therwiSe it feem.es would be a goodly fpedlacle. Ihc ftalke i’endes foorth many Small creeping 
roots, whereby it is fed or nourished, full ofhririe threddes euen from the vpper part of the earth, 
Ipreading farre abroad : amongft which from the maine root grow forth many tuberous roots.clu- 
ftering together, foraetimes fattened to thegreatroot it (elfe, fometimes growing on long firings 
a foot or more from theroot.raifing or hearting vp the earth aboue them,and fometimes appearing 
aboue the earth, producing from the increafe of one root, thirty.forty, or fifty in number.or more; 
making in all vlually aboue a pecke,many times neere halfe a bu'fheU, if the foile be good . Thefe 
tuberous roots are of a reddtfh colour without, of a Soft white fubftance within, bunched or bum- 
ped out many waies, fometimes as big, as a mans fiffor.not fobig.vvith white nofes or peaks where 
they will fprout or grow the next yeare.The ftalkes bowed downc, and fome part of them couered 
ouer with earth, fend forth fmal creeping threddiero6ts,and alfo tuberous roots like the former, 
which. I haue found by experience. Thefe tuberous roots will abide aline in the earth all winter’ 
R r r 3 though 
t Flos Solis Pyrnmidalisi 
Ierufalem Artichoke. 
