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Show Tbe Garden ofpleafant Flowers, The Garden of pleajant Flowers. este Baulbofie vsifoline Betracheides, Aconitum Elleboracenm » and Ramanculys yy, sophyhes, ad fome by other names. Moft Herbarifts call ic dcomstun, hy. mele,and wein Englith thereafter, Winters Wolfesbane; and offome,Y¢. low Acenite. The fecond is calledby moft Writers, Atomitam latenms P onticum : Son alfo Lupictide, Laparie, and Canicida , of the effec in killing Wolues and| Dogs: And forne, becaufethe flower is more white then yellow, doe cai ic Aconitum flore albido, wecall it in Englifh, The whitith yellow Aconi| or Wolfesbane, but fomeafter the Latine name,The yellow Wolfesbaie| Thethird is called generally Napelws, and Verses, becaufeit is the tne! Napellus ofthe ancient Writers, which they fo termed from the forme ofj| Turnep, called Nap in Latine. | The fourth is called coniswin Salutiferam, Napellus Adoyfis, Antora an(| Asthors, quali Antithora, thatis , the remedy againft the poifonfiull her There, in Englith according to the title , eyther wholfome Helmet foiye rcounterpoifon Monkes hood. The Vertues, Althoughthe firft three forts ofplants be very poifonfull and deadly, there may bee very good vie madeof themforfore eyes (being carefully applyed, yet not to all forts of fore eyes neither without difcretion) if th diftilled water be dropped therein. Therootes of the counterpoifon Monkes hood areeffe@uall not ont againft the poifon ofthe poifonfull Helmet flower, ahdall othets of tha kinde,but alfo againft the poifon ofall venemous beafts, the plague or ft. ftilence, and otherinfectious difeafes, which raife fPots, pockes, or markts inthe outward skinne, by expelling the poifon from within, anddefendig the heart asamoft foueraigne Cordiall. It is vfedalfo with goodfacet | againft the wormesof thebelly, andagainft the paines ofthe Wind colli: Ext viito the Aconites,ofright areto follow the Rewane * hurtful, yet all ofthem for the moft part being and exalcerating, an not without fome danger, ifany would be too bold withtharpe them.’ The whole Faniilyt the Rewuscali is ofa very large extent,and I am coniftrained Within the limits ofa Gi den of Pleafure ; [muft therefore fele@out onely fuch asare fit for this purpole, a fetthem kere downe for your knowledge , leauin worke, whichtime may perfeét and bring toligh g the reft for that other genet! t, if the couetotis mindesof:font that thouldb ; 2 s : pitts wouldforward.nenes 2 G0e Not hinderit:orif the help ofge 3. Rawaneulie montanes albus barsilior. The lowe white mountaine ee une, of a a enue oetewe Ne pointed Icaues with luers yellow threads inthe middle, ftandi : ngabout.a greene:head, which ‘iat in tit’) > gtoweth tobe full offeede, in formelikeyn toafmall greene Strawberry compofed of many white ftrings. : che ro" z a :another ofthis lowe kindey whofe leaues are fomewhat more deeply ; 2. Ranunculus montanus albas maior vel elatior. The great fingle white mountaine Crowfoote, The leaues ofthis Crowfoote are large and greene, cutintothree , arid fometimes into flue fpeciall diuifions, and eachof thein befides cut or notched about the edges, fomewhat refembling the leanes of the Globe Crowfoote,’ but larger: the ftalkeiis two fooreandahalfe high, hauiag three fall leaues fet at the ioynt’of the ftalke, where it brancheth outinto flowers , which ftand foure or-fiue together vpon long foote-ftalkes , made offiue white leauesa peete, very {weete, and fomewhat larger then the next white Crowfoote, with fome yellow threadsin the middle compaffing agreenchead, which bringeth feedelike vato othet wilde-Crowfeete ’ the rdote hath many long thicke whitifh ftrings, commifig from a thickehead, a 3. Ranancules montanrs albus minor. Theleffer fingle white Crowfoote. This Crowefoote hath fairelarge {pread leaues, cut into fiue diuifions, and fomewhat notchedaboutthe edges, greene on the vpperfide, and paler vnderneath, hauiag many veines running through the leaues: the ftalke of this rifeth not fo high as the former, although this bereafonabletall, as being neare two foote high, {pread into many branches, bearing fuchlike white flowers, as inthe former, butfmaller : the feede ofthisis like the former, and fo are the rooteslikewife, : 4. Ranunculus aloesflorepleno, The double white Crowfoot, The double white, Crowfooteis ofthe famekinde withthelaft fingle: white Crowfoote, hauing fuich, like leaues-1n all re{pects the onely, difference. is, in,the flowers, which in'this are very thickeand double. Some doe make mention,of two forts of double white Crowteete, one fomewhat lowerthen another, ,and:the lowerlike» wife bearing more ftore of flowers, and more double then the higher; but I cons és ae the flower larger, and fometimes a little double, asit were ™ Wo rowes of leaucs,in othe; thingsnot differing from che former. The early-Goriander leafed Crowfoote. This Crowfootehaththree orfoure very greene leanes, cutand diuided into many finall peeces,likevatothe wing 6fleaues ofRus} or rather like the lower leaves ofthé Coriander(for they well refemble either ofttheni)eutry ofthem ftanding ypon.a long purplifh ftalke, at the eoppe whereof groweththe floweralone, being compofed or made of twelue fall white leaues, broad pointed, anda little endented atthe ends, fomewhat purplith on the outfide,and whiten the infide, {uftained, byrdiuers {mall greene leaues, whichare in ftead of a cup or huske :in the middle of the flowerare many finall white threads, tipt, with yellow,pendents, ftanding shoutadmall greene head , which aftergrowethto,hes full offeedeslike a Strawherry.s which knobsgiue {mall blackith feede : therooteis white and.fbrous, liyett ite Crowfoot. among which rifeth a {mall {hort {talks} voderne green on ath, andnot - ring one Sor es {how whitefoflowcr thetopp e, made offue round Daplici fore. sai 5. Ranunculus pracox Rutafolio fice Coriandrifelio, feete, fo N= neareneffe both of forme, ofleaues, and nature ofthea/} Caeagi i = little cut inand notched about theedges, ‘ feffe, I haue neuer feene but onc fort of double, which is the fame here exprefled, not growingveryhigh, andreafonably well Gored with flowers. Cuar:XXVIL: Ranawtilus, The Crowfoote. This lowe Crowfoote hath three or foure broada pe ‘ a, Rapnntl 6. Ramancules Thalictrifeliomaior: T he gieat colombitte leafed Ctowfoot,>:i2ic2 Thelower leaues of this Crowfoote :hauelong ftalkes ;:and ateverydike vntothe {maller leaues of Colombines, or thegreat Spanith The/#@ram, which hath his leaues very like vnto a Calombine , foure'or Huerifing fromtheroote:the ftalke rifeth about a foote and a halfe high, fomewhat reddith, befet here and there with the like leaiies , at the’toppe whereof ftand ‘diners *fmall white Aowerk; wade “offue leauessanpeece ; with fome palé2white threads in ‘rheiniddle : the! feede is round and reddith, contained ia {mall huskes of hornes: the roote ismade of a’buflpor tuft of white ftrings; : 36°29 is] 3 Tr 9, Ranuracnlts |