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Show Cu ar.t4, bassin Botanicum. 14, Orchia palace palu/Prirmaculata, .: Tre «15, 166 Orchis palmata paluffris Drzooutias, Spotted marth handed @rechis, The marth handed Dragon Orchis. P : Trepe 15, TheTheater of Plants. hot ce leaveHereGh ly thet = the {moo;h. leaves hereof have no {pots: a gnd ite more ‘an Cra P15. 136% 18. Orchis pdmata mentanamaxima: c. Great mountaine Handed Orcihis, 20. Orchis palmata montana maculata flore candido, Spotted miountaine handed white Orchis. Theleaves ofthis Orchis are fomewhat narrow,and {potted like anto the female handed Orchis, che ftalke and flowers alfo are like untoit,and differeth not but in the colour, which is white, 21. Orchis palmata angn/tifolia eAlpina. Small mounraine handed) Orchis. This {mall Orchis hath very narrow leaves as {mall as Crocus as Matthiolus faith, che ftalke is low and SR {mall,bearing {mall fowers of a {ad purple colour, like unto the purpleflower gentle, andofa molt fragrant fmell whileit is frefh and greene, Ss eS X=.RI 1360 The P lace and Time. Some ofthefe Orchies grow infieldes and medows, fome in moorifh grounds and marfhes, and others upon hils and mountaines, and flower ip the moneths of Aprik,May, and Inne, fome éarlyerandlater chen others, The Names, Everyone ofthefe hath. one Aathour named in the margent that hath written of it, andhovw he bath cal: led it; as L have done withiall the reff of his family of the Orchides. " it es : Hea — cone E oer . : ae 30% fi— contenee 2 es6 i The Vertuese _ Thefe marth (tones are thought belt ro agree unto the Serapiades,and not ° availeable to Vetiercous purpofes,beig moreheating and drying then the ¢yno/orchides,and therefore may performethe cures that the Serapiaes doth inulcers and the reft. Camerariaa faith er lat fore thatitis ney profirable to ftay the bloody Fluxe,ifthe flow- ers be made into ponther and taken in wine,orthe frefh flowers fryed with eggesinto a Tanfie, and fo caren. The rootes ofall the other forts of Orchidés being boyledin red wine, and after they are dryed'againe, madeinto pou- ther and drunke,doth Ray the bloody fuxein a fpeedy manner. A CuaP. XV; Orchis abortida five Nidus avis; Mithapén Orch or Birds nett. Hereare twoforts of Bitdsineft, the oné not much differing from the other, butin the colour, the firftand moft anciently knowne,ofa yellowifh colour,the otherof a purplifh violet. 1. Orchis abortivaraffa, Ordinary birdsneft. Theicommon Birds nefirifeth up withupright fappy weake ftalkes, having a fhew of leaves S on them, whichare very fhort thin skins rather then leaves, of the fame colour with the ftalkes f Se ‘Ss and flowers,that is of a brownith dead yellow,the flowers {tand upon a fpiked head, like unto that of Orchis, and‘af the farne fafhion, with huskesof dufty feede following them > the roote is compofed of a number of fibres, that crofieand entangle them{clves one within another very intricately. 2. Nidws avis purpurea, Purple birdesnelt: This purple birds neft eroweth fomewhat lower having fome longer skinny leaves on the {talkes then tHe formet with flowersonafpiked lead very like untothe laft for forme, ‘but the whole ftalke leaves, and flowers are of a violet pu: ple calour, after whichfollow {mall feede like the’ other,theroorealfo is like the former. The Place and Time, _ Both chefe forts-are:fometimes found’ in our owne Land, in Woodsand low Copfes, and arein flowerin Iulyand Auguf, s oe The |