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Show Tbe Garden of pleafant Flowers. T e Wee call them in Englith eyther Anemones, after the Greeke name, The Garden ofpleafant Flaners. | Latine. or Winddowers, after the 3: Napellees versesflore ceruleo. Blew Helmet flower or Monkes hood; The Vertucs. The Helmet flower hath diuers leaues of a frefh greene colour on the vpperfide, eyther forinwardot j and grayifhvnderneath, much {pread abroad, and cut into many flits and notches, Thereis little vle ofthefein Phyfickein our dayes, more thenany of the Wolfebanes ; the ftalke rifeth vptwo orthreefootrhigh, befetto tment called Adarci« intotwoor outward diftafes ; onely the leaues arevfedin the Oin | cold in vied , is the cop withthelike leaues, but {maller : the toppe is fometimes diuided and bes her r hot y othe tum, which is compofed of man ftand many large flowers oneawhereon without, viually more but onofthe| reaf branches, by three te, ofed of griefes , to warme and comfort the parts. The roo ed or chewedinthe [7 boue another, informeverylike vnto a Hood or open Helmet, beingcomp Helmet an fharpenelfe, is apt to drawe downc rheume, if itbe taft ynto like , hollow is greateft, of which andthe , !| fiue leaves, the vppermolt mouth. like or Headpeece, two other fmall leanes are at the fides of the Helmet, clofingitdown hang fimalleft the are which other andtwo cheekes, and come fomewhat vnder, ofa perfec like labels, or as ifa clofe Helmet were opened,and fomepeeces hung by, be fo noir caufethit which long) ftood auing darker,h grow or faire blew colour, (but Cuar. XXVI. and yetis in rithed vp in Gardens , thatctheir flowers, as was viuailin formertimes, Aconitum. Wolfebane. many Countrey places , may be laidamong greene herbes in windowes and roomes aforefor the Summertime: but although their beauty may be entertained forthe vfes or lippes, left they tell youto your tongue your eare comenotn y bewarethe yet faid, fit for this booke,) butare Ls be diuersforts of Wolfebanes which are not s, yetamong themthete coft, they are not fo good as they fecmeto be: inthe middeft of the flower, whenitis Simple of Garden or Hiftory l general fora d referue open and gapeth wide, are feene certaine {mall threads like beards, ftanding abouta t beauty oftheir foure, or more {mall are fome, that notwithftanding their euill quality, may for the middle head, which when the flower is paft,groweth into three or to entreate in this place: on the outbrownifh are rootes the : {eede blacke them flowers tak¢ vp aroomeinthis Garden, of whom I meane as in wellasthe earlineffeot| blackith pods, containing round aboue, and {mall downewards, biggeand And firft of the Winter Wolfesbane, which for the beauty, fomewhat , within white and fide, mas , defet- | fhort Carrot roote, fometimes. two being ioyned atthe his flowers, being the firft of all other,that thew them{elues after Chrift Ancmenss| fomewhat like vnto a fmall the vato rootes the referred of e likenefl the for re therefo and ace; primepl a ueth headtogether. Butthename Napellas anciently given vitoit,doth fhew they , Tioyac itnext vnto them, theforme ofthe roote vnto a {mall Turnep. x. Acewitam Hyemale.The Winters Wolfesbane. Thislittle plant thrufteth vp diuers leaues out ofthe ground,in the deepe of Wits CAnthera, Thewholfome Helmet flower, or counterpoifon Monkes hood: ofthe flowThis wholfomeplant Ithought good to infert, not onely for the forme ter oftentimes, if therebe any milde weatherin Ianuary , but moft commonlyafte the deepe frofts, bearing vp manytimes the fnow vpon the heads of the leaues, whict | like vnto the Anemone, doecueryleafe rife from the roote vpon feuerall fhort footts ftalkes, notabouefoure fingers high, fome having flowersin the middle ofthea, (which come vp firft moft vfually) and fome none, which leaues ftand as ic wert er, but alfo for the excellent properties thereof, as you fhall have them related hereafter. The rootes hereofare fimall andtubetous, roundand fomewhatlong , ending forthe moft part in a longfibre, andwith fome. other, finall threads from the head onc feucdowneward : fromthchead whereof rifeth vp diuers greene leaues, every heeles Larkesof leaues s the almofta finely as diuided, rally vpon.aftalke, very. much or {purres : among which rifeth vpa hardroundftalke, a foote high andbetter, with ftand many {mall fome fuch leanesthereonas grow belowe, at the toppe whereof nc, bearing olfesba W whitifhi former the ynto like yellowith flowers , formed very manyblacke feedes in pods afterwards in the like manner. e onely, asthe moft Many moreforts of varieties of thefe kindesthere are, butthef are kept by fuck other the ; e pleafur for s Garden §pecious, are nourfed vp in Florifts round, the ftalkerifing vp vnder the middleof the leafe , deeply cut inand gathed the middle ftalke almoft, of avery faire deepe greene colour, inthe middle where clofe vnto the leafe, ftandeth a imall yellow flower’, made offix leaues, very libtt Crowfoote, with yellowthreads in the middle : after the fowerisfallen,there riley? diuers {mall hornesorcods fet together, wherein are contained whitifh yellowrout f{eede. The roote istuberous, fo like both for fhapeand colour’ vnto the rootes of Ar nemones,that they will eafily deceiue one not well experienced,but that it is brewst ¢# And {moother without, and yellow within, if it be broken. asare Catholicke obferuers of all natures ftore. . ~The Place: 2. Aconitum flore albide, fine Aconitaws luteum Ponticum. The whitifh yellow Wolfesbane, Allthefe grow naturally on Mountaines, in many thadowie places of the Alpes, in Germany,and elfewhcre. This Wolfesbane fhooteth not out of the ground vntill the Spring be well beguss and thenit fendeth forth great broad greene leaués , deeply cut in about the edges not muchvnlike the leaues of the great wilde Crewfoote, but much greater, from mong which leauesrifeth vp a ftrong ftiffe talke, three foote high hauing here ant} Fhe Time. there leauesfet vponit, like vnto the loweft, butfimaller ; the toppe of the ftalkeisé uided dinto in three: or foure branches, anche whereon are fet diuers pale yellow flowers,3, Wiwhic * turne atthe laft to bealmoft white, in fafhion likealmoft vate the Sowers of the HY af miet flower, but muchfmaller, and not gaping fo wide open : after the flow’ J are patt come vp diuers fhort poddes, wherein is contained blacke feede : th roote is made of a number of darke browne ftrings, which {pread and falte themfelues ftrongly in the ground. : aes 26 Nap 3 The firft fowreth(as is faid)in Ianuary , and February ; and fometines su yntill March be well fpent, and the feede is foone ripe after: 1} o1 The other three flower not yntill lune and Iuly. The Namies: it s byemale Belzaram, Lobelis cafleth The firtt is viually called Acomitwa Balbofusd , oy t Se |