10. Ocymoides arborea semper virens. Strange Bassil Campion.
This Strange Campion (for thereunto it must bee referred) shooteth forth many round, whitish, wooddy, but brittle stalkes, whereon stand diuers long, and somewhat thicke leaues, set by couples, narrow at the bottome, and broader toward the point, of a very faire greene and shining colour, so that there is more beauty in the greene leaues, which doe so alwaies abide, then in the flowers, which are of a pale red or blush colour, consisting of fiue small long broad pointed leaues, notched in the middle, which doe not lye close, but loosly as it were hanging ouer the huskes: after the flowers are past, there come heads that containe blackish seede: the roote is small, hard, white, and threadie.
11. Muscipula Lobelij siue Ben rubrum Monspeliensium. Lobels Catch Flie.
I must needes insert this small plant, to finish this part of the Campions, whereunto it belongeth, being a pretty toye to furnish and decke out a Garden. It springeth vp (if it haue beene once sowne and suffered to shed) in the later end of the yeare most commonly, or else in the Spring with fiue or six small leaues, very like vnto the leaues of Pinkes, and of the same grayish colour, but a little broader and shorter, and when it beginneth to shoote vp for flower, it beareth smaller leaues on the clammy or viscous stalkes (fit to hold any small thing that lighteth on it); being broad at the bottome compassing them, and standing two at a ioynt one against another: the toppes of the stalkes are diuersly branched into seuerall parts, euery branch hauing diuers small red flowers, not notched, but smooth, standing out of small, long, round, stript huskes, which after the flowers are past, containe small grayish seede: the roote is small, and perisheth after it hath giuen seede; but riseth (as is before said) of its owne seede, if it be suffered to shed.
| 1 | Lychnis Coronaria simplex. Single Rose Campion. |
| 2 | Lychnis Coronaria rubra multiplex. The double red Rose Campion. |
| 3 | Lychnis Chalcedonica simplex. Single None such, or flower of Bristow. |
| 4 | Lychnis Chalcedonica flore pleno. Double None such, or flower of Bristow. |
| 5 | Lychnis plumaria multiplex. Pleasant in sight. |
| 6 | Lychnis siluestris flore pleno rubro. Red Batchelours Buttons. |
| 7 | Lychnis siluestris flore pleno albo. White Batchelours Buttons. |
| 8 | Muscipula Lobelij. Lobels Catch Flie. |
The Place.
The Rose Campions, Flowers of Bristow, or Nonesuch, the Bassil Campion, and the Catch Flie, haue been sent vs from beyond the Seas, and are onely noursed vp in Gardens with vs; the other Campions that are double, haue been naturally so found double wilde (for no art or industry of man, that euer I could be assured of to be true, be it by neuer so many repetitions of transplantations, and planeticall obseruations (as I haue said in the beginning of this worke) could bring any flower, single by nature, to become double, notwithstanding many affirmations to that purpose, but whatsoeuer hath been found wilde to be double, nature her selfe, and not art hath so produced it) and being brought into Gardens, are there encreased by slipping, and parting the roote, because they giue no seede.
The Time.
All of them doe flower in the Summer, yet none before May.