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Show The Garden ofpleasant Elowers., The Garden of pleafant Flowers. qo PH AP, XXIX, CuarXXVIIL soo oftepatica nobilisfine trifalia. NobleLinerworts: Calthspalustris floreplene. Double Marth Marigold. j S an appendix to the Crowfeete;I muft needes addethis plant, yet feuerally byit felfe, becaufe both it and his fingle kinde are by moft adioyned there. | f unto, forthe neare refemblance bothin fhape and fharpeneffe of quality. The I leauc to the Ditchfides, and moift grounds about them,asthefitteft pla. kinde fingle | cesfor it, and onely bring the double kinde into my Garden, asfitteft for his goodly proportionand beauty tobe entertained, and haue place therein. The double Marfh Marigold hath many broad and round greene leaues, alittle en. dented about the edges, like vnto the fingle kinde,but notaltogether fo large, efpeciholally ina Garden whereit ftandeth not very moift : theftalkes are weake, round, low, andgreene,diuided into three or foure branchesatthe toppe, with leauts at the feucrall ioynts, whereon ftand very double flowers, ofa gold yellow colour :'the fiué outer leaues being larger then any ofthe reft that are encompafled by them, which fall awayafter they haue ftood blowneagreat while(for it endureth in flower a moneth or more, efpecially if it ftand ina fhadowie place) without bearing anyfeed: the sootesare compofed ofmany thicke, long, and round whitith ftrings Which rumne | downe deepinto the ground, andthereare faftened very ftrongly. ThePlace, . This plant groweth naturally in diuers Marfhes, and moift groundsin Germany , yetinfome more‘ double then in others ; it hath long agot beenecherifhed in ‘our Gardens. thickeand double. : joy efly > D785 » bor wawerd oh xitlepizbionfloc cierulea fimplici macor. iid iffhe greavfingle bieHeparica ortroble Liuerwort. and fometimes fhed and vp, blow opeti, {pring{pread.opers Hepatica doe of this The fowers ptareor, ‘fallaway, before anydéauesap ‘Fherdores atecompofed of a whereof ; after the flowbuthof blackith ftrings, from: the feusallacads orbuttons vponi feuerally ftatiding eacli leaues, eene ersarerifen and blowne, arife manyfrefher at theit firkt’comibrowne aridtiaity hisfoot:{talke;'folded together’, and forewhiat ming, which after are bread ,-2nd diuided ix thé edges inito tlitee parts = the flowers likewife ftand edery.onevponhis ownefeberalifoore-ttalke oftlie fanie height with theleaues forthe moftparty whichis abortfoure atfiue fingers breadth highytriadeof fix [caues mof-vfually, buefqmetioes itwill hauedcuen or cighty:ofa faireblew éo- ‘Jour, with many white chiues or threadsin the middle, ftanding about a middle green ‘head or ymbone, whichafter the foweris fallen groweth greater, and fheweth many {mall grainesorfeedefor clofe together(with three:fmall greene leaues compaffing them vnderneath , as they did the fowerat the bottome) very like the head offeed of manic Crowfeete. : fi veh zi 2, epatica minerflerepallida careles. The fmall blew Hepatica. The Time. ° Itflowreth in Aprillor May , asthe yeare proueth earlier or Later:all his leaues doe ina mannerquite perifh in Winter, and {pring anewinthe end of February, or thereabouts. Theleaucs of this Hepatica are fmialler bytle halfe then the former, and grow more aboundantly , or buthing thicke together: the flowers (when itfheweth them, for I havehad the planthalfea {cote yeares and, yet ricuer {aw it beare flower aboue onceor twice) arcof 2 pale or bleake blew colour 5not fo largeas the flowersof the former. } 3. Hepaticaflarepurpures. Purple Hepatica or noble Liuerwort. The Names. There is great controuerfic amongthe learned about the finglekinde, “but thereofI fhall not neede to fpeake in this place; if God permit! may ina fitter. This is called generally in Latine, Caltha palafirts maltle ere or fare aaa oe in Englifh (after the Latine, which take to Marigold. be that which wee viuallyy call i bletha Marfa cal Celendal Celendala , a Marigold} The dow: This Hepatica is in all things like vnto the firft, but onely the flowers are ofa deeper blew tendingtoa Violet purple and therefore hall not neede to reiterate the formerdefcription. 4: Hepatice floreaibowiner, The leffer white Hepatica. The flowersofthis Hepatica are wholly white,ofthe bigneffe ofthe red or purple, and the leaues {omewhat{maller,and ofaliteLewhiter or paler greene colour, elf¢ in all other things agreeing with the former. The Vertues, The roote hereof is tharpe, comming sie vato the Uiality Ext vata the Ctowfeeteareto follow the Hepaticas, becaufe ofthe likeHerte TN ities, feeming to be final Crowfeete in all their parts 5 but of another and more wholfamtkitides/<Thieit diuerfity among themfClues confitteth chiefly in the colour ofthe fowers, all oftheni beirig fingle, except one whichis very of the Crowfeete,but for any fpeciallproperty,1 haue net heard sifoundy° any. 5. Hepatica alba magne flore. The great white Hepatica. _ Thereis no other difference herein from the laftybut that the flower being as white, isas large asthe next. ’ 6. Hepstice albidafine argewtes, Ath-coloured or Argentine Hepstica, Both the leaues and the flowers ofthis Hepatica are larget’then any ofthe former, feeme to bee a of blufh afh-coexceprthe laft ; the lowers hereof a the firtt opening lour, whith doe fo abide threéor foure dayes , decaying Rill varilliceurac ae white, |