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Lhe Gardenof pleasant Flowers. more whitifh greene vnderneath ; amongft thefe leaues round ftalkes, fiue orfix inches high, beaving at the toppesrifeth Vp one or two naked diuers {mall flowers, fomewhat {weete, like ynto the firft purple Beares‘eare, hangin g downe their heads - Conk: fting of fiue {mall pointed leaues a peece, of a darke reddith purplecolour, with a white circle or bottome inthe 21. daricale Vrfi verficelor lutefcense viridifore.The variable green Beareseare, is ki fBeares care hath greene leaues, very like vnto the laft defcribed, and iripeia thelike anc about the edges, but in this it differeth,thathis leaues do turne middle, and fomefinall threads therein: after the flowers are paft, there come {mall round heads > fomew hat longer then any ofthe Beares eares, {tandi or foldthemfeluesalittle backwards : the flowers are of a yellowith greene colour, more clofed then the former, hauing purplith edges efpecially after they haue ftood ng vpright vpontheit {mall foot-ftalkes,wherein is conta inedmalLround and blackith feede : the roote corififteth of a thicke tuft of {mall whitith threads), f4- blowne fometime, and hauelittle or none atthe firft opening : thefe hauenocircles therthen rootes, much enterlaced one amonganother: the leaues of this plantdye downeeuery yeare, and {pring vpanew inthe beginning ofthe yeare, whereasall the Beares eares doc hold their leaues greene all the Winter > efpeci which ftand like aclofe head,the outermoft for the moft partper ally the middlemog ifhingafter {eed time. alManyake varieties are to be found, with thofethat are curious conferuers ofther delights of nature, cithet naturally growing on the mountaines in feuerall Places, from whencethey (being fearched outby diuers) haue been taken and brought,or ele raifed from the feede of fome ofthem , as itis more probable:for feuerall varieties haue beeneobferued (and no doubt manyofthee before {pecified) to bee gottenby The Place. fowing ofthe {eedes, euery yearelightly fhewing a duerfity, not obferuedbefore,¢ This groweth in many. fhadowie Wocdsboth of Italy Germany s for both Clufius hath deferibedit , findingit inthe Woodsand of Auftria and ther in theleafe, diuers from that from whenceit wastaken, orin the flowers. Ihave onely fet downethofe that haue come vnder mine owne view,and notany by relation, Stiria ; and Matthiolusfettethit downe, hauingreceiued it from even as I doe withall or moft of the things contained in this worke. The Place. Manyofthefe goodly plants growe naturally on mountaines, effpecially 9 the Alpes,in diuers places ; for {ome kindes that growein fomeplaces, doe not in others, but farrediftant one fromthe other. There hathlikewift fome beene found onthe Pyrenzan mountaines , but that kinde withthe blew flower and Borage leafe, hath beene gathered onthe mountaines in Spaine, and on the Pyrenzaris next vato Spaine. | | | The Time, | They all flower in Aprilland May, and the feedeis tipe in the end of Tune, orbeginning of Iuly , and fometimesthey will floweragaincin the | end of Summer, or in Autumane,ifthe yeare proue temperate, moift, and rainie. The Names. It is very probable,that noneofthefe plants were enet knowne vntotht ancient Writers, becaufe we cannotbeaffured, that they maybe truelytt- ferred yntoanyplant that they name,vnileffe we beleeue Fabius Columm, | that it fhould be —4li/ma of Diofcorides , for thereunto hee doth referrelt Diuers ofthe later Writers haue giuen. vnto them diuers names , euery ont | according to his owneconceit. For Gefner calleth it Lasaria arthritich and Paralytica Alpiva, Matthiolus accountethit to bee ofthe kindred of the Sanicles, and faith,that in his time ic was called by diuers Herbarifts, m/ealaVrft, whichname hath fince bin receined as moft vfuall.We in Englifh § call them Beares eares, according to the Latine, or as they are called by di uers women, French Cowflips; they may be called Mountaine Cowllips, ifyou will, forto diftinguifh betweenethem and other Cowillips, whereol thefeare fenerall kindes. but {uch with white flowers or blew we neuercould fee or heare further of, The Time. It fowreth much about the time ofthe Beares eares > Ofrathera little la: ter, and the {eede is ripe with them. The Names, Clufiuscallethit Sanicals montana, and Saniculs Alpina, and referreth ic tothe AsricalePrfi, or Beareseare, whichit doth mot nearly refemble : but Matthiolus referreth it to the Cariophyllata or Auens, making itto be of that tribe or family, and calleth it Cortu/a of himthat firft fent ithim. Wee maycall it eyther Cortw/a,as for the moft part all Herbarifts doe 5 or Beares eare Sanicle as Gerrard doth. The Vertues. Allthe forts of Beates earesare Cephalicall, thatis, conducing helpe for the paines inthe head , and for thegiddineffe thereof, which may happen, eyther by thefightof fteepeplaces fubied to danger, orotherwife. They are accounted alfo to be helping forthe Palfey , and fhaking oftheioynts and alfoasa Sanicle or wound-herbe. The leaues of the Cortufatafte a lite tle hot, and if one of them bee laide whole, without bruifing , on the cheeke of any tender skind woman;it will raife an orient red colour,as if fome facus had beene laide thereon, which will paffe away without any manner of harme, or marke whereit lay : This is Cortufus his obferuation. Camerariusin his Mertus Medicus faith, thatan oyle is made thereof, that is admirable for tocure wounds. Sanicula Alpinefine Cortufa Matthieli. Beares care Sanicie. I cannot chufe but infert this delicate plant in the end ofthe Beareseares, forthatit | is of fo neare affinity, althoughit differ much in the forme of the leanes , the defcrip- tion whereofis in this manner: The leaues that {pring vp firft are much crumpled,and as it were folded together, which afterwards open themfelues into faire, broad, ane roundifh leaues, fomewhat roughorhairy, not onely cutintofine diuifions, but {ome what norchedalfo about the edges , of a darke grcene colour onthevpperfide, 24 f : more Antho ning Cortufus, who was Prefident ofthe Garden at Padua » and found it in the woody mountainesof Vicenza, neare ynto Villeftagna, where on (as Mats thiolus faith)there is found both with white flowers as well as with blew, 24.1 |