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LXXII.Bellis.Daisie.There be diuers sorts of Daisies, both great and small, both single and double, both wilde growing abroade in the fieldes, and elsewhere, and manured growing only in Gardens: of all which I intend not to entreate, but of those that are of most beautie and respect, and leaue the rest to their proper place.Page 321: Sweet Iohns; Sweet Williams; Daisies.1Armerius angustifolius simplex.Single sweete Iohns.2Armerius angustifolius multiplex.Double sweet Iohns.3Armerius latifolius simplex.Single sweete Williams.4Armerius latifolius versicolor.Spotted sweet Williams or pride of London.5Armerius latifolius multiplex.Double sweet Williams.6Bellis hortensis minor multiplex.Double Garden Daisies.7Bellis minor hortensis flore vario.Double red Daisies stript.8Bellis minor hortensis prolifera.Double fruitfull Daisies or Iacke an Apes on horsebacke.9Bellis cærulea siue Globularia.Double blew Daisies or blew Globeflower.10Bellis lutea montana siue Globularia lutea montana.Double yellow Daisies or yellow Globeflower.1.Bellis maior flore albo pleno.The great double white Daisie.The great Daisie with the double white flower, is in all things so like vnto the great single kinde, that groweth by the high wayes, and in diuers medowes and fields, that there is no difference but in the flower, which is double. It hath many long, and somewhat broad leaues lying vpon the ground, deepely cut in on both sides, somewhat like vnto an oaken leafe; but those that are on the stalkes are shorter, narrower, and not so deeply cut in, but onely notched on the edges: the flowers at the toppe are (as I said) white and double, consisting of diuers rowes of leaues, being greater in compasse then any of the double Daisies that follow, but nothing so double of leaues.2.Bellis minor flore rubro simplici.Single red Daisies.This single Daisie (like as all the rest of the small Daisies) hath many smooth, greene, round pointed leaues lying on the ground, a little snipt about the edges; from among which rise many slender round foote-stalkes, rather then stalkes or stems, about an hand breadth high at the most, and oftentimes not halfe so high, bearing one flower a peece, consisting of many small leaues, as a pale or border set about a middle thrumme: the leaues of this kinde are almost wholly red, whereas in the wilde they are white or whitish, enclining to red on the edges, the middle being yellow in both sorts: the rootes are many small white threads or strings.3.Bellis minor hortensis flore pleno variorum colorum.Double Garden Daisies of diuers colours.The leaues of all the double Daisies are in forme like vnto the single ones, but that they are smaller, and little or nothing snipt or notched about the edges: the small stalkes like wise are smaller and lower, but bearing as double flowers as any that growe on the ground, being composed of many small leaues, thicke thrust together, of diuers colours; for some are wholly of a pure white, others haue a little red, either dispersed vpon the white leaues, or on the edges, and sometimes on the backes of the leaues: some againe seeme to be of a whitish red, or more red then white, when as indeede they are white leaues dispersed among the red; others of a deepe or darke red colour, and some are speckled or striped with white and red through the whole flower: and some the leaues will bee red on the vpperside, and white vnderneath; and some also (but those are very rare) are of a greenish colour.4.Bellis minor hortensis prolifera.Double double Daisies or childing Daisies.There is no difference either in leafe or roote in this kinde from the former double Daisies: the chiefest variety consisteth in this, that it beareth many small double flowers, standing vpon very short stalkes round about the middle flower, which is vsually as great and double as any of the other double kindes, and is either wholly of a deepe red colour, or speckled white and red as in some of the former kindes, or else greenish, all the small flowers about it being of the same colour with the middlemost.5.Bellis cærulea siue Globularia.Blew Daisies.The likenesse and affinity that this plant hath with the former, both in the forme of leafe and flower, as also in the name, hath caused me to insert it, and another rare plant of the same kinde, in this place, although they be very rare to be met with in our English Gardens. This beareth many narrower, shorter, and blacker greene leaues then the former, lying round about vpon the ground; among which rise vp slender, but stiffe and hard stalks, halfe a foot high or more, set here and there with small leaues, and at the top a small round head, composed of many small blew leaues, somewhat like vnto the head of a Scabious: It hath bin found likewise with a white head of flowers: the roote is hard and stringie: the whole plant is of a bitter taste.6.Globularia lutea montana.Yellow Daisies.This mountaine yellow Daisie or Globe-flower hath many thicke, smooth, round pointed leaues, spread vpon the ground like the former; among which spring diuers small round rushie stalkes, a foote high, bearing about the middle of them two small leaues at the ioynts, and at the toppes round heads of flowers thrust thicke together, standing in purplish huskes, euery of which flowers do blow or spread into fiue leaues, starre-fashion, and of a faire yellow colour, smelling like vnto broome flowers, with many small threads in the middle compassing a flat pointell, horned or bended two wayes: after the flowers are past rise vp the seede vessels, which are round, swelling out in the middle, and diuided into foure parts at the toppes, containing within them round, flat, blacke seede, with a small cut or notch in them: the roote is a finger long, round and hard, with a thicke barke, and a woddy pith in the middle, of a sharpe drying taste and strong sent: the leaues are also sharpe, but bitter.The Place.The small Daisies are all planted, and found onely in Gardens, and will require to be replanted often, lest they degenerate into single flowers, & at least into lesse double. The blew Daisie is naturall of Mompelier in France, and on the mountaines in many places of Italy, as also the yellow kinde in the Kingdome of Naples.The Time.The Daisies flower betimes in the Spring, and last vntill May, but the last two flower not vntill August or September.The Names.They are vsually called in LatineBellides, and in English Daisies. Some call themHerba Margarita, andPrimula veris, as it is likely after the Italian names, ofMarguerite, andFlor di prima vera gentile. The French call themPasquettes, andMarguerites, and the Fruitfull sort, or those that beare small flowers about the middle one,Margueritons: our English women call them Iacke an Apes on horse-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daisies: but the Physitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, especially the single or Field kindes,Consolida minor. The blew Daisie is calledBellis cærulea, andGlobularia, of someScabiosæ pumilum genus. The Italians call itBotanaria, because the heads are found like buttons. The yellow,Globularia montana, is onely described by Fabius Columna, in his last part ofPhytobasanos, and by him referred vnto the formerGlobularia, although it differ in some notable points from it.The Vertues.The properties of Daisies are certainly to binde, and the roote especially being dryed, they are vsed in medicines to that purpose. They are also of speciall account among those herbes, that are vsed for wounds in the head.
Chap. LXXII.Bellis.Daisie.There be diuers sorts of Daisies, both great and small, both single and double, both wilde growing abroade in the fieldes, and elsewhere, and manured growing only in Gardens: of all which I intend not to entreate, but of those that are of most beautie and respect, and leaue the rest to their proper place.Page 321: Sweet Iohns; Sweet Williams; Daisies.1Armerius angustifolius simplex.Single sweete Iohns.2Armerius angustifolius multiplex.Double sweet Iohns.3Armerius latifolius simplex.Single sweete Williams.4Armerius latifolius versicolor.Spotted sweet Williams or pride of London.5Armerius latifolius multiplex.Double sweet Williams.6Bellis hortensis minor multiplex.Double Garden Daisies.7Bellis minor hortensis flore vario.Double red Daisies stript.8Bellis minor hortensis prolifera.Double fruitfull Daisies or Iacke an Apes on horsebacke.9Bellis cærulea siue Globularia.Double blew Daisies or blew Globeflower.10Bellis lutea montana siue Globularia lutea montana.Double yellow Daisies or yellow Globeflower.1.Bellis maior flore albo pleno.The great double white Daisie.The great Daisie with the double white flower, is in all things so like vnto the great single kinde, that groweth by the high wayes, and in diuers medowes and fields, that there is no difference but in the flower, which is double. It hath many long, and somewhat broad leaues lying vpon the ground, deepely cut in on both sides, somewhat like vnto an oaken leafe; but those that are on the stalkes are shorter, narrower, and not so deeply cut in, but onely notched on the edges: the flowers at the toppe are (as I said) white and double, consisting of diuers rowes of leaues, being greater in compasse then any of the double Daisies that follow, but nothing so double of leaues.2.Bellis minor flore rubro simplici.Single red Daisies.This single Daisie (like as all the rest of the small Daisies) hath many smooth, greene, round pointed leaues lying on the ground, a little snipt about the edges; from among which rise many slender round foote-stalkes, rather then stalkes or stems, about an hand breadth high at the most, and oftentimes not halfe so high, bearing one flower a peece, consisting of many small leaues, as a pale or border set about a middle thrumme: the leaues of this kinde are almost wholly red, whereas in the wilde they are white or whitish, enclining to red on the edges, the middle being yellow in both sorts: the rootes are many small white threads or strings.3.Bellis minor hortensis flore pleno variorum colorum.Double Garden Daisies of diuers colours.The leaues of all the double Daisies are in forme like vnto the single ones, but that they are smaller, and little or nothing snipt or notched about the edges: the small stalkes like wise are smaller and lower, but bearing as double flowers as any that growe on the ground, being composed of many small leaues, thicke thrust together, of diuers colours; for some are wholly of a pure white, others haue a little red, either dispersed vpon the white leaues, or on the edges, and sometimes on the backes of the leaues: some againe seeme to be of a whitish red, or more red then white, when as indeede they are white leaues dispersed among the red; others of a deepe or darke red colour, and some are speckled or striped with white and red through the whole flower: and some the leaues will bee red on the vpperside, and white vnderneath; and some also (but those are very rare) are of a greenish colour.4.Bellis minor hortensis prolifera.Double double Daisies or childing Daisies.There is no difference either in leafe or roote in this kinde from the former double Daisies: the chiefest variety consisteth in this, that it beareth many small double flowers, standing vpon very short stalkes round about the middle flower, which is vsually as great and double as any of the other double kindes, and is either wholly of a deepe red colour, or speckled white and red as in some of the former kindes, or else greenish, all the small flowers about it being of the same colour with the middlemost.5.Bellis cærulea siue Globularia.Blew Daisies.The likenesse and affinity that this plant hath with the former, both in the forme of leafe and flower, as also in the name, hath caused me to insert it, and another rare plant of the same kinde, in this place, although they be very rare to be met with in our English Gardens. This beareth many narrower, shorter, and blacker greene leaues then the former, lying round about vpon the ground; among which rise vp slender, but stiffe and hard stalks, halfe a foot high or more, set here and there with small leaues, and at the top a small round head, composed of many small blew leaues, somewhat like vnto the head of a Scabious: It hath bin found likewise with a white head of flowers: the roote is hard and stringie: the whole plant is of a bitter taste.6.Globularia lutea montana.Yellow Daisies.This mountaine yellow Daisie or Globe-flower hath many thicke, smooth, round pointed leaues, spread vpon the ground like the former; among which spring diuers small round rushie stalkes, a foote high, bearing about the middle of them two small leaues at the ioynts, and at the toppes round heads of flowers thrust thicke together, standing in purplish huskes, euery of which flowers do blow or spread into fiue leaues, starre-fashion, and of a faire yellow colour, smelling like vnto broome flowers, with many small threads in the middle compassing a flat pointell, horned or bended two wayes: after the flowers are past rise vp the seede vessels, which are round, swelling out in the middle, and diuided into foure parts at the toppes, containing within them round, flat, blacke seede, with a small cut or notch in them: the roote is a finger long, round and hard, with a thicke barke, and a woddy pith in the middle, of a sharpe drying taste and strong sent: the leaues are also sharpe, but bitter.The Place.The small Daisies are all planted, and found onely in Gardens, and will require to be replanted often, lest they degenerate into single flowers, & at least into lesse double. The blew Daisie is naturall of Mompelier in France, and on the mountaines in many places of Italy, as also the yellow kinde in the Kingdome of Naples.The Time.The Daisies flower betimes in the Spring, and last vntill May, but the last two flower not vntill August or September.The Names.They are vsually called in LatineBellides, and in English Daisies. Some call themHerba Margarita, andPrimula veris, as it is likely after the Italian names, ofMarguerite, andFlor di prima vera gentile. The French call themPasquettes, andMarguerites, and the Fruitfull sort, or those that beare small flowers about the middle one,Margueritons: our English women call them Iacke an Apes on horse-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daisies: but the Physitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, especially the single or Field kindes,Consolida minor. The blew Daisie is calledBellis cærulea, andGlobularia, of someScabiosæ pumilum genus. The Italians call itBotanaria, because the heads are found like buttons. The yellow,Globularia montana, is onely described by Fabius Columna, in his last part ofPhytobasanos, and by him referred vnto the formerGlobularia, although it differ in some notable points from it.The Vertues.The properties of Daisies are certainly to binde, and the roote especially being dryed, they are vsed in medicines to that purpose. They are also of speciall account among those herbes, that are vsed for wounds in the head.
There be diuers sorts of Daisies, both great and small, both single and double, both wilde growing abroade in the fieldes, and elsewhere, and manured growing only in Gardens: of all which I intend not to entreate, but of those that are of most beautie and respect, and leaue the rest to their proper place.
Page 321: Sweet Iohns; Sweet Williams; Daisies.1Armerius angustifolius simplex.Single sweete Iohns.2Armerius angustifolius multiplex.Double sweet Iohns.3Armerius latifolius simplex.Single sweete Williams.4Armerius latifolius versicolor.Spotted sweet Williams or pride of London.5Armerius latifolius multiplex.Double sweet Williams.6Bellis hortensis minor multiplex.Double Garden Daisies.7Bellis minor hortensis flore vario.Double red Daisies stript.8Bellis minor hortensis prolifera.Double fruitfull Daisies or Iacke an Apes on horsebacke.9Bellis cærulea siue Globularia.Double blew Daisies or blew Globeflower.10Bellis lutea montana siue Globularia lutea montana.Double yellow Daisies or yellow Globeflower.
The great Daisie with the double white flower, is in all things so like vnto the great single kinde, that groweth by the high wayes, and in diuers medowes and fields, that there is no difference but in the flower, which is double. It hath many long, and somewhat broad leaues lying vpon the ground, deepely cut in on both sides, somewhat like vnto an oaken leafe; but those that are on the stalkes are shorter, narrower, and not so deeply cut in, but onely notched on the edges: the flowers at the toppe are (as I said) white and double, consisting of diuers rowes of leaues, being greater in compasse then any of the double Daisies that follow, but nothing so double of leaues.
This single Daisie (like as all the rest of the small Daisies) hath many smooth, greene, round pointed leaues lying on the ground, a little snipt about the edges; from among which rise many slender round foote-stalkes, rather then stalkes or stems, about an hand breadth high at the most, and oftentimes not halfe so high, bearing one flower a peece, consisting of many small leaues, as a pale or border set about a middle thrumme: the leaues of this kinde are almost wholly red, whereas in the wilde they are white or whitish, enclining to red on the edges, the middle being yellow in both sorts: the rootes are many small white threads or strings.
The leaues of all the double Daisies are in forme like vnto the single ones, but that they are smaller, and little or nothing snipt or notched about the edges: the small stalkes like wise are smaller and lower, but bearing as double flowers as any that growe on the ground, being composed of many small leaues, thicke thrust together, of diuers colours; for some are wholly of a pure white, others haue a little red, either dispersed vpon the white leaues, or on the edges, and sometimes on the backes of the leaues: some againe seeme to be of a whitish red, or more red then white, when as indeede they are white leaues dispersed among the red; others of a deepe or darke red colour, and some are speckled or striped with white and red through the whole flower: and some the leaues will bee red on the vpperside, and white vnderneath; and some also (but those are very rare) are of a greenish colour.
There is no difference either in leafe or roote in this kinde from the former double Daisies: the chiefest variety consisteth in this, that it beareth many small double flowers, standing vpon very short stalkes round about the middle flower, which is vsually as great and double as any of the other double kindes, and is either wholly of a deepe red colour, or speckled white and red as in some of the former kindes, or else greenish, all the small flowers about it being of the same colour with the middlemost.
The likenesse and affinity that this plant hath with the former, both in the forme of leafe and flower, as also in the name, hath caused me to insert it, and another rare plant of the same kinde, in this place, although they be very rare to be met with in our English Gardens. This beareth many narrower, shorter, and blacker greene leaues then the former, lying round about vpon the ground; among which rise vp slender, but stiffe and hard stalks, halfe a foot high or more, set here and there with small leaues, and at the top a small round head, composed of many small blew leaues, somewhat like vnto the head of a Scabious: It hath bin found likewise with a white head of flowers: the roote is hard and stringie: the whole plant is of a bitter taste.
This mountaine yellow Daisie or Globe-flower hath many thicke, smooth, round pointed leaues, spread vpon the ground like the former; among which spring diuers small round rushie stalkes, a foote high, bearing about the middle of them two small leaues at the ioynts, and at the toppes round heads of flowers thrust thicke together, standing in purplish huskes, euery of which flowers do blow or spread into fiue leaues, starre-fashion, and of a faire yellow colour, smelling like vnto broome flowers, with many small threads in the middle compassing a flat pointell, horned or bended two wayes: after the flowers are past rise vp the seede vessels, which are round, swelling out in the middle, and diuided into foure parts at the toppes, containing within them round, flat, blacke seede, with a small cut or notch in them: the roote is a finger long, round and hard, with a thicke barke, and a woddy pith in the middle, of a sharpe drying taste and strong sent: the leaues are also sharpe, but bitter.
The Place.The small Daisies are all planted, and found onely in Gardens, and will require to be replanted often, lest they degenerate into single flowers, & at least into lesse double. The blew Daisie is naturall of Mompelier in France, and on the mountaines in many places of Italy, as also the yellow kinde in the Kingdome of Naples.
The small Daisies are all planted, and found onely in Gardens, and will require to be replanted often, lest they degenerate into single flowers, & at least into lesse double. The blew Daisie is naturall of Mompelier in France, and on the mountaines in many places of Italy, as also the yellow kinde in the Kingdome of Naples.
The Time.The Daisies flower betimes in the Spring, and last vntill May, but the last two flower not vntill August or September.
The Daisies flower betimes in the Spring, and last vntill May, but the last two flower not vntill August or September.
The Names.They are vsually called in LatineBellides, and in English Daisies. Some call themHerba Margarita, andPrimula veris, as it is likely after the Italian names, ofMarguerite, andFlor di prima vera gentile. The French call themPasquettes, andMarguerites, and the Fruitfull sort, or those that beare small flowers about the middle one,Margueritons: our English women call them Iacke an Apes on horse-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daisies: but the Physitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, especially the single or Field kindes,Consolida minor. The blew Daisie is calledBellis cærulea, andGlobularia, of someScabiosæ pumilum genus. The Italians call itBotanaria, because the heads are found like buttons. The yellow,Globularia montana, is onely described by Fabius Columna, in his last part ofPhytobasanos, and by him referred vnto the formerGlobularia, although it differ in some notable points from it.
They are vsually called in LatineBellides, and in English Daisies. Some call themHerba Margarita, andPrimula veris, as it is likely after the Italian names, ofMarguerite, andFlor di prima vera gentile. The French call themPasquettes, andMarguerites, and the Fruitfull sort, or those that beare small flowers about the middle one,Margueritons: our English women call them Iacke an Apes on horse-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daisies: but the Physitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, especially the single or Field kindes,Consolida minor. The blew Daisie is calledBellis cærulea, andGlobularia, of someScabiosæ pumilum genus. The Italians call itBotanaria, because the heads are found like buttons. The yellow,Globularia montana, is onely described by Fabius Columna, in his last part ofPhytobasanos, and by him referred vnto the formerGlobularia, although it differ in some notable points from it.
The Vertues.The properties of Daisies are certainly to binde, and the roote especially being dryed, they are vsed in medicines to that purpose. They are also of speciall account among those herbes, that are vsed for wounds in the head.
The properties of Daisies are certainly to binde, and the roote especially being dryed, they are vsed in medicines to that purpose. They are also of speciall account among those herbes, that are vsed for wounds in the head.