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Show =e HISTORTE OF PLANTS, THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE 1 Ranunculualbus multiflorus. cs inaa, Double white Batchelers Buttons,or double white Crowfoote. S13 * The defeription. Ses aa I It groweth in the g ardens of Herbarifts ndlouers offtrange plants, whereof we have good plentie; burit growerhnorwild any where, 7 % The time. ance It fowreth from the beginning of May vneothé end thereof: + The names. Tris*called of L’Obelfus ‘Rahaitenlas tis nous Polyarithos;ofTaber Atonpinns Ritu tulus albus multifloris' : in Englifh Double white Crowfoote; of Batchelets Buttons, The temperature and vertiess The temperature andfaculties in wor. king agree withthewilde Crowfoots, OfTurkie Crowfootes. Chap54. 2 Ranunculus Tripolitanns. Crowfooteof Tripolie. Ranunculy. Hedouble red Crowfoote hatha fewe leaues rifing immediately foorth of the gtotind,cut hollow, andofa bright fhining greene colou The falke rifeth vp to the heigh r t ofa foc te,{mooth, and very brittle, diniding ic felfe into other branches fometimes two,feldome three ; wheieon do grow leaues confufedly fet without ordet: the lowers growe at the tops ofthe ftalk s verydouble,and ofgreat beautie, ofa perfect{carlee colour tending torednes, The rooteis comp act of many long tough rooteslike thofe ofthe yellow Alphodill, : 2 The Crowfoote of Tripolis or the fin glered Ranunculus, hath leanes at their firftcomming vp like ynto thofe ofGround{iell:among which i; the edges with deepe gathes,fomewhat rifeth vpa ftalke ofthe height ofhalfe acubite.{om. es deepelycut what hairiewheteon do growe broad leatt ,éuento the middle ub,like thofeofHe locks: the flower groweth atthe top of mthe ftalk,confifting of fiueleaues,on the outfide of a darkor ouetworne red colour,onthe infid e ofa redlead col. ur, or Phoeniceus colour, in fhapé likethe wilde come Poppie, the knoporftilein the middle which conteineth the feede , is earnifhed or bes decke with very many {mall purple thrums tending tobla cknes: the roote is as it ack a bunde litle bulbes or gtaines like thofe of the llof finall Celandine or Pilewoort: aN %-The place. The firtt gtoweth naturally in and about Conft antin ople,andin Afia, onthe further fide of phorus,ftom whence there hath beene Bofz brought plants at diuers times , and by diuers petfons, but they haue perifhed byreafonof the long iourn ey,an d want ofsk ill ofthe bring ers , that hauefurfitred them to li¢ina boxe or fuch like fo long, that when we hauereceiued them , they haue beene asdiie as ginger; notwhithftanding Clufiu s faith he receineda plant freth and gteene thewhich a domeftical] theefe ftole foorth of his garden; myLord and Mafter the tight Honorable the L Treafttter,had diuers plants fent himf romthence which w ere driebefore they came-as aforefaide, Theother gtowethin Alepoand Tripo lis in Syria naturally, from when ce we haueteceiued plants lot out gardenswhere they flouri thas in their owne countrey, ; % The time. Theybring foorth their pleafant flowers in Maie andLu ne; thefeede is ripe in Augutft, Then: % The names. iaa : called Ranunculus Conftantinopoli tanss,o FLObelins Ranunculys Sorgninens multiple 5 dodlerate‘abe Aftaticus :in the Turki th toong Tarobolos Catamser laie: in Englith the Thefec ies Crowf oote. die .ond oeaa ec emnn nles Trépolstanus, ofmythe place from fC : inne itwas : firft brought into mal over a urkes Tzrobolos Catamer, without that addition lalé, which isa prope r worde that are double, Theittempera : % temperature and cates Dekindea petature and vertues are The referred to the other Crowfootes, whereof,the y are thought Of Spearewoort,or Banewoort. Chap.355. %& The decription, ODP S leaues “tewoort hath an hollowe ftalke full ofknees or ioints, whereon do growelong {moothi ie oe vnlike c /’ “ ~ one ; = 4 thofe ofthe Willow, ofa fhining greene colour :‘ the lowers growat the | Pot wl Be ftalkes confifting fold i C, pale yellowe colour,very ’ like a yntothe oly ofr, fine leaues,ofa ot field : cs : Stooteige. i de Crowfoote . orfeedeveflel : after‘ which fe s, w , ini come roundj knops herein is theofeecds feed > The empac ofdiuers bulbes or longclogs, mixed withaninfinite numberof hairy threds, a the Fecte Spearewoort being that which wecallthe leffer hath leaues, flowersand alks i C cnt, but altogither an tee number ted ee threddie sddia lefler : the roote confifteth ofDiet aninfinite of 0} Si . . o ~ ae ] t fh “Nngs, 1 Rasunculus |