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Show Trise 15, Tbeatram Botanicum. E pimediam, The Place and Time. T ripe 5. Lhe Theater of Plants, Cuap,20, 1367 : Barrcnwort. Crary. XX. Cefalpinus (aith it growetlron the mountaines of Liguria, Camerarims neereunto Vicexzo in Italy, Banhinus on the Exganian Aquilegia; Columbines. hils,and in Romania,in fhadowy wet grounds, and flowreth from Junesanto the middle of e4xga/t. Have fhéwed yolt in my former Booke {6 many (orts df Coluribisies; and of fo rany colottrs, borlt The Names, The #204. Epimedinm of Diofcorides, bath beene diverfly interpreted by fundry writers, fome takingittobe one thing, fame another : for Columna in his Phytobafanos, ferteth the Lanarta minorfor it, bat furelyerronioufly, and faiththat neither the Hepatica trifolia, nor that Se/eli eAthiopicum, which is the Libanoris Theophraftiwithus, which fome in and before his time tooke 10 be it,can be it. Bavhinus would {eeme to make Thalivs to meane the Caltha paluftris to be D odoneushis Epimedinm, whenas I cannot finde inany of Dodoneus his workes, that he meant, or fet forthany other Epimedinm then this I here thew you. So that I fingle and double,that I then thoughe theré had beene no morero befet forth, yet finee that time £ have attained the knowledge offome others, which Ethinke mecte toexpreffehere; elpecially one out ofVirginia with a fingle Hower, which Maltet Lobs Trdde/cant brought trom thence, 3 cree Virginianaflore rubeffente precox, THe early red Columbine of Vorginia, This 2 'irginian fore differeth livle trom thie ordinary finsle fort, bucin thete particulars : tHe ltalke isastall ad fome eguilegia, although Cormuitws make itadwarfe and reddifh, the leaves dre {maller and foméewhat like unto thofe of the 7baliet+iwm, Medow Rue, but of a paler greene colour, the Howers are of d {ad teddith colout, and fingle from the middle of them tothe ends, tut yellowifh from thence to the bottomes, the ends of whofe leaves arenot bluncasin ottts, but ftiffe rough, and pointed; within which horned leaves there arefive other {maller,and of a reddith colour alfo, their pointsbending downeward3, having many {mall white thredsinthe hereby thinke Banhinus was miftaken to quote T halivs to meane middle, tipe with yellow, after which comefive pointed or ho:ned ttede veffels, with blacke thining feede Caltha, and that Thaliw alfo was miftakenin taking chat /herbe inthem: the roote is long with manyfibres thereat. 1 here allo give youthe figire dfthe ordinary one,that you may{ce the difference, e ; Aquilegiaflore pleno maculato diverfordmcolordm, Double party coloured Columbinesof ftindry colotits; As Lbefore faid,{ (hewed youall rhe variécies of colours that { then knewsbarfirice I have feene and have fome other forts,asfirfta kindeofdarke red, which we calladeroy colour, both fingle and double, anda double witk which he gatheredas he faith in fome place of the Harcyniafylva, and keptin his booke of dryed herbes,that had foure round leaves alittle dented about the edges,ftanding each upona flender foore- ftalke,and witha blacke tuberous roote to be Epimedinum Dodonei, which neither hath fuch round leaves, nor fuch a blacke tuberous white ftripes therein, asis the parey coloured blew,and white: then have weéa faire double ted or ctimion color,(triped in the fame manner with whicezanother {potted as well as {triped,very thickely, and of ahaire colour; double and friped as the rettz:and another {triped and fometimes {pocted,ofa lived colotir, or betweehe blacke and roote, Anguilara it isthought,firlt entituied this Epimed:a(which fome in his.time called Lunaria) whomall others that have ferit forthfince, have-fe called,and yet {ome make a doubt whether it blew. Befides che ftarre or Rofe Columbines party colotired purple and white,and red and white, be Dio(corides his or no. Firlt in thathee faith, Epimediam hath The Place and Time, 7 ina tenne or twelve leaves, when asthe triplicity is fo con{picuous, that itisa wonder he fhould omit that, ifhe meant this: againe hefaithir beareth neither Aower norfruite, when as this giveth The firft was brought out of Virginia by Malter Tradefcant, and flowteth fomewhat earlier then any ofoiit Garden kindes ufually by a moneth, both, yethereuntoitis affirmed that Diofcorides might faile in Thave thewed in my former Booke.the fundry opinions of Writers hereon,fome referring it to onethingsfomé this,as he did in Dittamum Tuffilage Cynogloffum, Gc, Ivis likely alfo that Theophraftws fhould meane this of Diofcorides, whichin his feventh Booke andeighth Chapter, he calleth Epimerr#m and faithit beareth no flowers, which Pliny calleth allo Epipetron,and fome Epimenidium, The Vertuese The Names. go another of che gicients: bur Cormutivsis definite uponthe point, that ic was notknowne, And cto moove oné Aquilegia vulgaris fmplex. The ord. nary fingle Columbine ; Wehave not any late experience hereofto thewbut as Dio/corides Pliny and Galen have fet downe of it, thatit is moderately cold and moilt,and without any {pcciall property more thento keepe womens brefts, from growing over great being made into a catapla{me;,with oyle and applyed thereto: and that the report went that the roote Wine for a make women barrenthat tookeit inwardly, as alfotheleaves madeinto powther and takenin ometime, Cuar. XIX. Viola Lunaris five Bulbonach, The white Sattin flower. eS i ea Heré are two forts of this Sattin flower, Espa one that dyeth after feede time, andanother that abideth, both which I have fo 4 2s fufficiently declaredin my former Booke, PeaeSSuig that I necdenotfurther to amplifie them. I willtherefore referre you thereunto, to Soe ofthem, and onely here give you the figure of ite , i A “ SA NI UN Aquilogia Virginians flore rube/cente. i Lhe red Columbine of Virginia; |