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Show TheGarden of pleafant Flowers. ‘the leffer imthe lower Germany, Tie, andthe other parts neere thercunto' s * or Low Countries, as we callthem. The Time. t they rife Thefe are moft truely to bee reckoned Vernall plants, fortha gonelikewile are and , comein bee Spring the votill d groun the of out not of the yeare, yetthe beforeit be paft, xemaining wader groundall thereft r. lefler abideth longer aboue ground then the greate amongdivers, Concerningthe fornietofftliefe,: there is a controuerfie um of Galen, bit Eripbi whetherit fhould be Thefiass of Theophraftus, or would haue ittobee hereis nofit place totrauerfethofe opinions. Some likeneff Corydalis,and fome referre itto Plinie his Capos Cheledonia forthe called..of.all it hath both with Eumetericand Celandine. ItisgenerallyHollo w root, , Capuesfi- Theleffer forthefirmeneffe of his round roote,is vfually called bacea radite,and the Dutch menthercaftet ,Boonkens Hollvoogtelliwnce the likeneffe with the former,doecallit the leffe Hollow roote. The Vertues, oe beenchad Some by the bitterneffe doe coniecture (forlitrle proofe hath thereof, but in outward cafes) thatit clenfeth, purgeth, and dryeth wwithall Guar XLIX Delphininm. Larkes heeles. ©: Latkes heeles there ate twoprincipall kindes,the wildekinde,and theta or garden ; thewildekindeis of twoforts, ope whichis withvs a a chiefly in gardens, andis the greateft-; the other whithis fmaller and wel, often found in our plowedlandes,and elfewhere’ ‘ofthe former of thefe wilde fort there aredouble as wellas fingle : and of the tame or more vpright, doublealfoa™ fingle: and of each of diuers colours,as fhall be fet downe, 1. Delphininm mainefine vulgare. The ordinary Larkes heeles. The comnion Larkes heele fpreadeth with many branches much more groll! ftanding then the other, rather leaning er bending downe to the ground, then Fens like almoft cur, finely leaues, greene long vprighr, whereon age fet many {mall Jeaues :_ Varietas. three orfourefinall lowers were ioyned together, with enery one his {purr behinde the greateft owerbeing outermoft, andasit were containing the teft, whichareof a palered, or deepe blufh colour’: Anotherofthis kinde will beare his: lowers with three or foure rowes ofleaucs inthe middle,making a double flowerwitlionefpurié behinde onely : and ofthis kinde there is both with purple, -blew;:/bluth, and white flowers, and party coloured alfo;thefe doe all beare feed like the fingle wherb it is encreafed eucry yeare. ee 3. Delphininm arnenfe. Wilde Larkes fpurres. This wilde Larkes fpurre hath finaller anid fhorter leaues, fmaller andlowerbran- The Names. after, moderne Writers, Radix Caua,and wein Englifhthere 297 The Gardenofpleafant Flowers. —— the branches end in along {pike of hollow.flowers, with along fputse , hitide them, very like vnto the fowers.of the Hollow roete laft deferibed, andarce ditiers feuetall colours,as ofa blewith purple colour, or white, or ath colour or ¢ al ler or deeper.asalfo party coloured of twocoloursin a flower : afterthe flowers paft, (whichin this kinde abide longer then inthe other) there come long roun ae ; contaiting very blacke feede : the rootishard afterit groweth ypto fecde, {prea nf beth abroad and deepe, and perifhethcuery ycare, vfually raifingit felfe from" ow fowing, as well as fromthe feede fowen ia the {pring time. 2, Delphinium vulgareflore pleno. Double common Larkes heeles. Of this vulgar kinde there is fomedifference in the fower,althoughin nothingell she fowers ftand many vponaftalke likethe former, bur euery one ofthem are ches, and more thinly orfparfedly growing vpon them,then any ofthe fotmer : the flowers likewife at¢ neytherfo large as any ofthe former, nor fo many-gfowingtoge- ther,the.cods likewife hatte {maller feede,andis harder to growin gardens then any ofthe former, the molt vfuall colourhereofisa palereddifhorbluth colotit, yet fometimes they are found both whiteand blew, and fometimes mixtof blew anid bluth.vatiably difpofed, as nature can when fhelifteth ; but are much morerare. : 4. Diphininmelatiusflonefimplici diuer[eram colorum, Singlé vpright bearing Larkes hecles of manycolours. The difference betweene this didthe laft is, that the'leaues of this arénotfullyfo greene, norfo large;the ftatkes grow vpright,to the height ‘of aman, andfomcetimes higher, hauing fome branches thereon, but fewerthen the former, andftanding likewife vpright, and not leaning downeéas the former: the toppesoftheftalkes are better ftored with fowers then the other, being fometimes two foote long and aboue ofthe fame fafhion,bat not altogether fo largeybut of more diners and feueral colours, aswhite, pale, blufh, redde deeperorpaler, aficoloured, purple or violet, and of an ouerworne blewifh purple, oriron colour : forof all thefe we haue fimple, without any mixture or {pot : but we haueother forts, among the fimple colours,that rife from the fame feede,and will haue flowers thatwil be halfe white,and halfebluth orpurple, or one leafe white,.and another bluth orpurple, or elfe variably mixed and {potted: the {ede and feede veffels are like the former but larger and harder, 5 Delphiniuimclatins florepleno dinerforum colorum. Double vpright Larkes heeles of many colours, Thefe double Larkes heeles cannot, beeknowne from the fingle of the famekinde, votill they come towards flowring,for there appeare many flowers vponthe ftalkes,in the fame manner,and ofas many colotts almoft as ofthe fingle, excepttheparty coloured, which (tandlike little double Rofes; laydor {pread broade open, as the Rofe Colombine without any heeles behindethem, very delightfullto behold, confifting of many fmall leaues-growing together, and after they are fallen there come vp in their placesthree or foure {mall cods-fet together, wherein is contained hereand there (for all are not full of feede, asthe fingle kindes) blackefeede, likevntoall the teft, but fmaller, which being fowen will bring plants that will beare bothfingle and ( ouble flowers againe,and it often happeneth,thatit variably altereth in colours fron towne (owing: for none of them hold conftantly his owne colour, (fo farreas eucr Tcould obferuc) but fall into others as nature pleafeth. 6. Delphininm Hifpanicum parunm, Spanith wilde Larkes {purres. . This fmall Larkes fpurre of Spainc, hath divers long and broad leaues next the sound,cut-in on bothfides, fomewhatlike vnto the leafe of 2 Scabious,or rather that ae of Stoebe,which Lobel calleth crapina, for.it doth fomewhat neerly refemble He fame, but that this is {mooth onthe edges, andnotindented befides the euts,as the freeing is, being of a whitith greene colour, and fomewhat {mooth and foft in Aandling : among the leaues rifeth vpawhitith greene ftalke,, hauing many fmaller Aa leaues |