An engraving depicting An engraving depicting 1 - 5: Varieties of Amaranthus. "Diverse suppose the flowers of these plants doe help to stay the fluxe of blood in man or woman" (Doctrine of Signatures or treating like with like). 6 -10: Everlasting flowers (Helichrysum and Gnaphalium) dried for decoration and put in drawers, to discourage moths. From John Parkinson Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, London 1629