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Show SS ———— THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE 6 Eo Campanula minor,purpures, pumlebaliose inor alba 5 Campanulaminoralba Little white Bell flower. HISTORTEO OF PLANTS. OfRainpions,or wild > Bellflowers. Chap.tiz. ‘ 2 Rapnntina peru ; iy Sieh) tbs I Rapitisitn weartts Smal] Rampion. Great Rampion. % The dee[cription. $ Thelittle white Bell flower is akinde of wildeRampions, asis that whichfolloweth, anes thofetwo laft before defcribed. This {mall planthatha flender root, ofthe bignesof @ finali with fomefewftrings annexedtherto. The leaues are fomwhat long, fmooth, & ofa perio gt colour,lying flat vponthe ground; fromthence rife vp {mall tender ftalkes, fet here and thetems a fewleaues. The flowers growe at the top,ofa milke white colour. 6 Theotherfinall Bell flower or wilde Rampion, differeth not fromthe precedent, b ur onely colour of the flowers : for asthe others are white, thefe are ofa bright purple colour, whic foorth the difference, % % Theplace. Thetwo fit groweih our London gardens, and not wilde in England. o En Thereft, except that finall onewith yellow flowers, do growe wilde in moft places Oo es efpecially vpon barren fandie heathes,and fuch like grounds. ThefeBell flowers do % The defiriptions - ae Rampion being oneof the Bell flowers, hath leaues which appeere or come worth atthe beginning {omewhat large and broad, {moothandplaine; notvalike tothe “*alies of the Beete, Among which rifevp ftems two,cubits high, {er with fuchlikeleaues re of the firtt { t it the top of the ftalkagreat, thick,bufhie : a Foxe taile;, which fi owers before ewbels;fome. Lhe roote is white,andas thicke as amans thombe. cone ofthe Bell flowerssandyeta wilde kinde ofRampion,hath he garden Marigold. The leauesthat {pring vpafterward %& The tim flourifh fiom May v dnarrower, The fowers groweat the top ir, % Thenames. ; Their feuerall . ae 3 : : yas hatho titles fet foorth theirnames in Englifhand Latine, whichis as muchas ; fometimes white,or purple, faid of them, % The temperature and vertues. 5 iftsien The 7 ; Thefe Rel Bell flowers } efpeciall y the fower laftmentioned, are cold and drie, and 0 *™~ eof they be kindes. é non Stop, with k ¢fmall Bel! fos tings annexed ou mculese £8 |