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Show 226 The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, The Garden ofpleafant Flowers. white, hauing yet ftill a thew ofthat blufh afh-colour inthem, till the very laft. g.Hepatica albafiraminibus tubris, White Hepatica with red threads, white one,{auing thatthe There isno difference between this Hepatica and the firft former, aretipt at theend; threads inthe middle of the flower, being white, as inthe erith apale reddithcolour, which adde agreat beauty,to-the. flowers. 3 .Hepaticaflore rubre. Red Hepatica or noble Liuerwore. } ~ fe The leaues ofthis Hepatica are of a little browner red colour, both at their fit thenanyof commingvp, and afterwards, efpecially. in the middle of the leafe more bluth,orpalered the former: theflowers arcin'forme like vntothe teft, butofa bright colour, very pleafant to behold,with white threads or chiues inthe middle ofthem, guHepatica‘fore parparee ninltiplics fine‘ plend. Thedouble purple Hepatica The double Hepaticais in all things like vntothefingle purple kinde, fauing oney thatthe leaues are larger, and ftand vpon longer foote-ftalkes,and that the owersat {mall buttons, but very thicke ofleaues,and‘as doubleas a flowercanbe, like vntotht doublewhite Crowfoote before'defcribedsbut ner fo bigge, of a deepe blew or put plecolour, without any threads or head inthe middle, which fall away withoutgr uing arly feede, : 10. Hepaticafarcearuleeplens. Thedouble blew Hepatica. In thecolour ofchis flower,confifteth the chiefeft difference fromthe laft,exceptott may fay it isa littleleffe in the bignefle ofthe hower,but not in doublenefic of leaucs: The Place. Allthefe plants with fingle flowers grow naturally in the Woods, at thadowie Mountaines of Germany in manyplaces, and fome ofthem it Italy alfo. The doublekinde likewife hath been fent from AlphonfissPattius outofItaly, as Clufiusreporteth, and wasalfo found inthe Wools neare the Caftle of Stambeg in Auftria, the Lady Heufenftainspoftellot, as the fame Clufius reporteth alfo. The Time. Thefe plants doc flower very early, and are ofthe firft flowers that fhe chemfelues prefently after the deepe frofts in January, fo that next yntothe Winter Wolfesbanc, thefe making their prideappeare in Winter , aret more welcomecarly guefts. The double kinde flowreth noraltogethe# early, but fhewethhis flower,and abideth when the ethers are paft. The Names. They haue obtained diuers names ;fomecallingthem Hepatica, Hope wobilic, Hepaticums srifelinm,Trifelinm mobile, Trifoliam anrenm,and fome™ witas,and Herba Trinitatis. In Englith you maycall them either Hepati® after the Latine name,as moft doe, or Noble Liuerwort, which yeu plea” The Vertues. Thefearethought to cooleand ftrengthentheliner, the name importing as much ; but I neuer faw.any great vfe ofthem by any the Phyfitians ofo London Colfedge,oreffeat bythem that hauevfed them in Phyficke ino Country. : Cust » alia Fhe double purple Hepatica, 4. Geranium tuberofwn-Knobbed Cranes bill. ¢_ Geranium Batrachoides flere ! ceruleo. Theblew or white Crowfoote Cranesbill. 6 Geranium Hematedes. The red RofeCrancs bill 7 Geraninne Kemmis firiatiom. The variable ftript Crames bill, 8 Geraninm Cresicum> Candy Cranes bill. |