The Time.
Many of these Pinkes both single and double, doe flower before any Gilloflower, and so continue vntill August, and some, most of the Summer and Autumne.
The Names.
The seuerall titles that are giuen to these Pinkes, may suffice for their particular names: and for their generall they haue beene expressed in the [former Chapter], beeing of the same kindred, but that they are smaller, and more frequently found wilde. The two sorts of Thrift are called Caryophyllus Marinus. The greater, Maior & Mediterraneus; In English, The greater or Leuant Thrift, or Sea Gilloflower. The lesser Minimus, and is accounted of some to be a grasse, and therefore called Gramen Marinum & Polyanthemum; In English, Thrift, Sea grasse, and our Ladies Cushion, or Sea Cushion.
The Vertues.
It is thought by diuers, that their vertues are answerable to the Gilloflowers, yet as they are of little vse with vs, so I thinke of as small effect.
Chap. LXXI.
Armerius. Sweet Iohns, and sweet Williams.
These kindes of flowers as they come neerest vnto Pinkes and Gilloflowers, though manifestly differing, so it is fitted to place them next vnto them in a peculiar Chapter.