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Show Of the Hittorie of Plants. ite Blew Country-Bells, bis 20 @ The Place ard 7 Theygrow in woods,mountaines, and dake vallies, & vnder hedges am ng thet cially about Couentry , where the sel. OW yer plentifully abroad in the fields, &atc therecal. led Couentry-bels , and of fome about Londo, Canturbury-bels, but vnproperly, forthat thee is another kinde of Bell-fourc growing in Ken about Canturbury , which may more fitly be called Canturbury-bells , becaufe they Sto there more plentifully than inanyother Coun try. Thefepleafant Bel-floures wehaue inour London gardens efpecially forthe beantyal Ofthe HiftoryofPlants. q The Defcription. co "Hefirftof the Canterbuty bells hath roughandhairybrittle ftalkes, crefted certaine fquareneffe, diuiding themfelues into diuers branches vhereupon dogrow very ‘rough fhatpepointed leaues, cut about the edges like the teeth ofa fawe; and fo like the leaues ofnettles, thazit is hard to knowthe one fromthe other, but by touching them. The floutes are hollow, hairy within, and ofa perfec blewcolour, bell fathion, not vnlike to the Couentry bells. The root is white, thicke, and long lafting, + There is alfo infome Gardens kepta variety hereof hauing double floures, + 2 The white Canterbury bells are folike the precedent, that it is not poffible to diftinguith them, but by the colour of the floures ; whichof this plant is a milke white colour, and of the othera blew,whichfertethforth the difference, 4. Trachelium minus, their floure,although they be kindes of Rampi ons, and theroots eaten as Rampions are. + § Tracheliums majus petraum: Great Stone Throtewort, Small Canterbury bells. Theyfloure in Tune, Tuly, and Augutt th feed waxeth ripe inthe meane time; for the plants bring not forth their flouresall at onee, but whenonefloureth another feeder! qj The Names, Couentrybels arecalled in Latine rialeM viana: in Englifh,Mercuries viol ts, or Couettry Rapes;and of fome,Mariets, It hath bint ken tobe Medium,but vnfitly : of fomeit iscal led Rapit {ylueftre:which the Grecks cal potSe | The Temperature and Vertus. : The rootis cold and fomewhat binding, ano not vfed in phyficke, but only fora fallet ros boyled and eaten with oyle, inegerand pepper: Cuap.116, & Trachelinm majus. Blew Canturbury-Bels: Of Throat-wort, or Canturbury-Bells, 3 Trachel. majus Belefive Giganteum. Gyant Throat t Our Author much miftaking in this place (as in manyother) did agai fcribe the third and fourth,and ofth ne figure andde: em made andthe next Viola Calathiana 5 yet thefigure a fiftandfixe, calling the firtt Trachelinm Giganteum s were fuch as Bauh ine coul d not coniecture what was meant bythem, and thereforein his Pinaxshe faith, Trachelium Gizantéu m, & Viola Calathiana apud Gerardum, quid ? but the defcript ions were better, wherefore I hauc omit ted the former defeription and here giuen you the later, + 3. Giantss.H Throtewort hath very large leaues of an ouctwotne greene coldur; hollowed: in the middle] ike the (c ites fpoone, Mofcou ) and “ vety tough, flightly indented about the edges. ftalkeis ty O cubits high, The whereonthofe leaues are {et fromthe botteme to the top; from the box fome fo ofe, =ach leafe commethforth one flender footeft alke, whereon doth grow<a faire anddlar 10 fafhionedlike bell, ofa whitith colour ge tending to putple. The pointed corners ofeacli ay ene back e like a {erole, or the Dalmat ian caps in the middle whereof com ne {harpe ftile or Clapper . > of a yellow colour, The root is thicke,with certaine ftrings tewort hath ftalkes and leaues yery like ynto'th Pp : |