Tribe 5. 
The Theater of 'Plants* 
Ch 
A P.27. 
13. Beilis bortcnfn multiplex. 
Bauble Garden Dailies. 
II, Beilis minor [ylve/lris/implex. 
The leffer wilde white Dailie. 
The fmall common Angle field Daifie hath many thickeand 
c fomewhat long greene leaves, lying upon the ground, fmall 
I at the bottome, broad and almoft round at the point, and a 
little dented about the edges; from among which rife many 
| very (lender, weake, and naked (lalkes,or rather footeftalkes, 
of two, three or foure inches high, bearing every one a fmall 
! greene head, from whence rife many fmall white leaves, fet 
I about a yellow thrumme or head in the middle, fometimes 
I the greene leaves will be found to be much larger in one 
| place then another, and the flower likewife in fome will be 
j reddifh at the ends, and fometimes underftained, and yet is 
! but all one kinde or fort, and not divers as fome would have 
it; theroote is many fmall white fibres. 
I 2 , 'Beilis minor alba ramofa. 
Branched fmall wild white Dailie. 
This fmall Dailie differeth very little from the Iaft Dailies, | 
hut that the leaves are a little (horter and more dented about 
the edges, and the fundry fmall flalkesbeare fuch like leaves | 
on them at the joynts where they branch forth into many 
parts, with luch like fmall white flowers at their toppes. 
1 1. Beilis bortenfcs multiplex. Double Dailies. 
This differeth very little from the laft, either in the leaves 
or manner of growing, the chiefeft difference conlifteth in the 
flowerij!, which in fome are all white, but compofedof fun* 
dry rowes of leaves, others ofa whitifti red,or more white 
then red, or rather white leaves difperfed among the red and 
others of other varieties, as I have formerly exprefled them in 
my Booke. 
The Place, 
The firft groweth every where by hedge fides, in the borders of fields, and other wafte grounds, Thefem^ 
on the E, v .ncan hils by Pad,4. The third on Mount TSaldm. The fourth came to u s from Virginia The fifth 
groweth on the Kountames among the Smtzes. The fixth in fandy barren places in the Handsnf frJLv 
winch are over againft MarfeUes. The feaventh was firft brought me out of A by Mr Dr fW wi h * 
otherfeedes, rh.r grew in the Garden of Pi/a, in the Duke olW, his Dominions, but of whence t TZ 
turall, I havenotyetcertainely knowne, whether ofC.Wy or any other place.The eighth groweth abour fr 
t'Ojr, and in many other places both ot France znd Italy. The ninth, grow on thehils in theKhwdome'fr*" 
«ado, there gathered by Dr. Albmm, and brought to Eaahmm as himfelfe relateth. The temhonX hiW 
^qmcoL in Napier, as Column* maketh mention. The eleventh groweth in every field and medo w almoftTft ? 
twelfth was lent from Portuoall. The laft in Gardens. y uem ana meaowalmoft.The 
The Time. 
All thei fixe firft forts doe flower in CHUy and lune , but the other foure nevr fnr^ 
and but fometimes give good feed with ns, the recall the SpringTd 
The Names, 
,l'V„ S ™ gh o by ™. ot J wr ‘ Krs ? nd others, that this was not knowne to any of the ancient Greeke authors 
though fome doe thtnke that it is the fame that Theophrajlus in his (eaventh Booke and nfiirb fill 11 “l 
^ which, with Umadu^f^Js, 4 ich tranflateih ^X, b t ca fior beXi 11 
Pt'-y onely among tne Latmes maketh mention of Belli,, i n his 26. Booke, and fifth Chanter V.// 
fhXwhe e fTe rX’ vrX white flower fome what reddifh, which (hewet’n us ourIsnatl wilde Daifie but 
h nd Z° f 1 Cth m h,S 2 *: Book f “ d 8 • Chapter which he calleth Belli0 or Belliue /IX as fome have 
It, and hath 5 y. beards to crownc it, and is a field flower is not certainely knowne what herbe ft ? 
many tbinkc the place corrupted, and tobeotherwiferead, buthowfoever itbe, he maketh it knownr 
.er, ; ,ome would have the name Beilis to be taken from Belus the King of T)anaus whofe fifty danohi-prc h • 
iie" hUsband T did ^ e fir[t '-S^t of their marriage t^ k °e a mournW^I elery Xn^of 
‘C.r husbands excepting one: fome denve the word a hello quafi, belli* prMium fome alfo from t\L 1 
r r d Rentes, doe call the lefler w ilde fort Herb a MorgariU, The fi 
a " d the c <™ fmall or field Daifie, called Confolida minor, yet to mate* a fort O otm r,T 
W,crruk*. Globular}* ^Ziun^ a °M^ i T r ^/^l , T eM A?f r ‘ im ‘■ The J . e $“ h is calIcd by Lobet 
maudScabiofapumUum^m by CM*, ’as he doth the:ninth "sZbTofa ZmaTaZZr^epe/f CXiriXf 
tleTbt[fbeS° the® " Theial Kf" by ^ T K tw ^ ch a " d ^ hwethefr 
d C “. call both forts, Fiordeprimavera, andtheleffer Marrarite, andfWe 
Zz 2 “ frima 
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