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1 SWeet Iohns haue round stalkes as haue the Gillofloures, (whereof they are a kinde) a cub it high, whereupon do grow long leaues broader than those of the Gillofloure, of a greene grassie colour: the floures grow at the top of the stalkes, very like vnto Pinks, of a perfect white colour.
2 The second differeth not from the other but in that, that this plant hath red floures, and the otherwhite.
We haue in our London gardens a kinde hereof bearing most fine and pleasant white floures, spotted very confusedly with reddish spots, which setteth forth the beauty thereof; and hath bin taken of some (but not rightly) to be the plant called of the later Writers Superba Austriaca, or the Pride of Austria. ‡ It is now commonly in most places called London-Pride. ‡
‡ Wee haue likewise of the same kinde bringing forth most double floures, and these ei∣ther very white, or else of a deepe purple colour.
3 The great Sweet-William hath round ioynted stalkes thicke and fat, somewhat reddish about the lower ioynts, a cub it high, with long broad and ribbed leaues like as those of the Plan∣taine, of a greene grassie colour. The floures at the top of the stalkes are very like to the small Pinkes, many ioyned together in one tuft or spoky vmbel, of a deepe red colour: the root is thick and wooddy.
4 The narrow leaued Sweet-William groweth vp to the height of two cubits, very wel resem∣bling the former, but lesser, and the leaues narrower: the floures are of a bright red colour, with many small sharpe pointed grassie leaues standing vp amongst them, wherein especially consisteth the difference.
‡ 5 This little fruitfull Pinke (whose figure our Author formerly gaue in the first place of the next chapter saue one) hath a small whitish wooddy root, which sends forth little stalks some handfull and better high; and these at each ioynt are set with two thinne narrow little leaues: at the top of each of these stalkes growes a single skinny smooth shining huske, out of which (as in other Pinkes) growes not one onely floure, but many, one still comming out as another withers; so that oft times out of one head come seuen, eight, or nine floures one after another, which as they fade leaue behinde them a little pod containing small blacke flattish seed. The floure is of a light red, and very small, standing with the head somewhat far out of the hose or huske. ‡