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Show 276 Theatrum Botanicum. Cu APedy Anemone trifolia Dodonei, Triszy 6, Ranunsulus uemerofus Mu/catella dius, ~The Muske Weed Crowfoote, Dodoneus his trefoite Anemone. Trise 3. s», Lhe Theater ofPlants. Cuar.4. 327 howroote, but {maller, and ofa paller fhining greene colour, fromamong which rife up one or two {mall ftalkes with.twofuch like leaves thereon,but {maller,and little above them,a {mall round greenifh yellow head,which {preadethnot into leaves,but into foure orfivelittle moffie heads of threads, and fo abidetha while, having no other flower,andpafle away into many {mall kernelly feede;the rooteis {mall and fomewhat long, compofed as it were of many {mall very fhining white thicke {cales, growing upwards,and having many white fibres at the head ofthem, ofa little {weetifh bitter, fharpe and bindingtafte; the leaves have little {weete fent, forme- whatlikeunto that kinde of Cranesbill, called Muske, yet more inthe naturall places than in Gardens, when itis tran{planted into them. » Ranunculus nemorofis dulcisfecundus Tragi. Sweete Wood Crow foote. ’ » The firkt leavesofthis kinde of Crowfoote, are round fomewhat like unto Violet leaves, dnd not devided at all, bur thofe that rife next after them, are more devided, fomewhat like unto the leavesof the Jaft, and fo thofe that grow after and uponthe ftalkes are more devided than they : the flowers are {mall, and of.a faire fhining gold yellowcolour, ftanding at the toppes of the ftalkes, like unto the other common kindés of Crowfeete’s gf ter which come the feede many fet together in ahead, like a {mall Strawberry, as diverfe other Crowfeete have ; the roote is compofed of many white ftrings and fibres, like unto others ; neither roote or leafe ‘of this kind, hath anyfharpe orbiting tafte inthem, burare almoft infipide. us 8. Ranunculus Virginen(is albus, The white Virginia Crow footé. The white Virginia Crowfoot fhooteth forth from a reddifh thick tuberons roore with foie {mall fibres there= to, three or foure fomewhatlarge broad whitith greene leaves uponlong footeftalkes, rent-or torne on the edges for the moft parr, among which rifeth up a {lender round naked ftalke,five or fixe inches high, bearing one b3 =< white flower-arthe toppe, made oftenne or of twelve {mall narrow andpointed leaves,with a few yellowifh threds in the middle, fet abomt a greenifh umbone, which intime groweth tobe along flendet pod, wherein is contained round whitifh feede. The Place, < The moft forts of thefe are found growing in Woods, Groves,and Orchards, fome of thém in or owne Jand H oF iy in many places, the reft in manyplacesofItaly, Germary,cc. The fift is found as weil by the brooke fides that | paffe by Medowes;.as in Woods, and by hedgefides, a The Time, They doéall flower very earely in the Spring, in March oftentimes, or at thé farthef in April. The Names, nTto WH Ht }//) Thefirft foure are diverfly called of diverfe Writers, for fomé call them Raunnculi nemorofe, Or nemorupi apd \ ror se \ } ( (\ 7. Ranunculus nemoro(us dulcis fecundus Tragi. Sweete Wood Crowfoote. 3. Ranunculus Virginenfis albus: The white Virginia Crowfoote, Lyluarum, others Anemones [yluestres, ot nemorofe: but inregard noneof thefe do beare any cottony head offeede, asallthe Anemones doe. I rather hold with their judgernent, that referre them tothe kindes of Ranunculus oF Crowfoote ; yet @/ujius thinketh that they may be reckoned as kindes of wild Anemones, and faith that diverfe did thinke them to be the Anemone/ylve stra, that Tiheophrafties calleth reyovtd Leimonias the Italians call them Gengevo falvatico,wild Gingers either becaufe the rootes ofthem all, are very fharpe, hot and biting the tongué like Ginger, orrather ag] thinke,becaufe the rootes doe growa little {preading into feverall parts, very like unto Ginger. Tragus calleth them Ranunculusfylveftris, whereofthere are twoforts ashefaith, candidus and we tens, one that beareth white flowers and another yellow : Johannes Thalius maketh them his third kinde of , Crowfeete : Ge/ver calleth the firlt white one Ranunculus Phragmisis: Thave therefore npon more mature adq vice entituled them Wood Crowfeete, and fet themin thefirft rankeor divifion : the fecondis. by Ban. binns Ranunculus nemorofus eAnemonesflore minor the third, fourth and fifth, have theirnamescalled in their titles « the fixtis diverfly alfo called,for Corduscallethit A40/chatella, and {ome other Mo/eharella pratenfes that it may differ from the ALofchatella carulea of Lugdunenfis called alfo cAgeratum purureim ; Lobel calleth it Ranunculus minimus Septentrionalinm herbido mufcofo fore.Tragus and Gefner makeit to be akinde of Ariffolochia,for {o they accounted the Radix (ava tobe,and thereupon as Camerarizs{aith,divers did aswell accountit a kinde of Capuos as {mall Crow foote, Lugdunenjis calleth it Denticulata from the formeofthe Foote whichis madeas it were of many teeth fet together: The feventh is Tragms his {econd Ranunculus fylveftrisyand Lobel his Ranunculus auri- comus, The laft hath not beenefét forthby any before. [SN fg) So x ALAS Sp) eS tes Y The Vertues. Byreafonof the hot fharpebiting: tafte of the fourefirft forts, they are found noleffe to exulcetate the skinne being applied, thenany of the orher forts of Crowfeete; yet they may be well uled to cate away and confume hard tumours,as alfo to take away {carrés and other blemifhes, and wartes uponthe hands, &c. and to eate out the core of cornesin the feete, the leaves or roote efpecially, being bruifed and boundto for a certaine {paces They are faid alfo to clenfe foule ulcers that are muchcorrupted and ftinking. The 6, and 7, fort are not knowne tobeufed. Vntothis Divifion appertaine thofe other fortsof Anemones fyluefires flore pleno, fet forth in my former Wotke, Dicvifio fecunda, The fecond divifion, Ranunculipratenfes & arvenfes. Field Crowfeeté. 1. Ranunculus pratenfis duiis, Sweere Meddow Crowfoote. His Meddow Crowfoote (whichI call fweet, not as Gerard doth becaufe it fmelleth fweete, but in regard ithath no ‘fharpe’ biting or exulcerating tafte, asmoft{of the other Crowfeete have, bur is fo fweete and pleafant, that many in Germany.and other places, doe ftew the leaves, when they are young among other herbes, that ferve to eate) Rath diverfe great broad, darke greene leaves, {pread upon the ground, a little hayrié, cut in on the edges into five divifions, and a little dented alfo about, jefpecially at the nds, and of a paler ycHowifh greene on the underfide, of a f{weete and not nnpleafant tafte, as ‘I before; among which rife up diverfe hayrie ftalkes, with fome leaves ugon them, much more divided fayd and into {maller and narrower parts, than the lower: at the toppes whereof ftarid many faire yellowflowers, fo like unto the next fielde Growfoote, that is very violent, fharpe . re the skinne; that it can ae 2 6 |