The first flowreth in Iune, the other later, as not vntill August, and sometimes so late, that the early frosts taking it, neuer suffer it to come to ripeness.
The Names.
The first hath his name in his title. The second, besides the names set downe, is called of some Planta maxima, Flos maximus, Sol Indianus, but the most vsuall with vs is, Flos Solis: In English, The Sunne Flower, or Flower of the Sunne.
The Vertues.
There is no vse of either in Physicke with vs, but that sometimes the heads of the Sunne Flower are dressed, and eaten as Hartichokes are, and a accounted of some to be good meate, but they are too strong for my taste.
Chap. LXIII.
Calendula. Marigolds.
Some haue reckoned vp many sorts of Marigolds, I had rather make but two, the single and the double; for doubtlesse, those that be most double, rise from the best seede, which are the middlemost of the great double, and some would be lesse double, whose seede is greater then the rest, according to the ground where it groweth; as also those that be of a paler colour, doe come of the seed of the yellower sort.
| 1 | Chrysanthemum Creticum. Corne Marigolds of Candy. |
| 2 | Flos Solis. The Flower of the Sunne. |
| 3 | Calendula. Marigolds. |
| 4 | Aster Atticus siue Italorum. The Purple Marigold. |
| 5 | Pilosella maior. Golden Mouse-eare. |
| 6 | Scorsonera Hispanica. Spanish Vipers grasse. |
| 7 | Tragopogon. Goates beard, or goe to bed at noone. |