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Show The Theater of Planis. TrRise 15. 1378 TRiBE 15 Thuewnn Botanicum. Cuap.27. andothers, but Gordus on Dio/corides carneftly ftriveth to make it che Deryexinm of Diofcorides, whereuntoit {ce- ? PiumCordatum veficarium. The bladder atc like fpotted Peale, numfive Conjolida yezatis latifolia, Larke (putres ywith broader leaves. C war.28. 13 79 Naftartiars indicum, Indian Crefles, ) meth he was led, not onely fromthe feverall parts of the forme thereof, except the leaves; but alfo from the propertiesof thie fede, which as hee faich, he tryed in him- felfeto be dangerous in provoking fleepe, if too much fhould be taker, “alchough ashe faithit caufeth a {weeter flcépe then Opinm: but AZarthiolws contelteth againtt him forthis his opinion,but fhewethino reafons:for it: De- aA dowews mifliking others opinions, bringeth in one of his owne, that this is Serapio, his Abrong or Abrugi, mentioned in his 153- Chapter,inthefe words : Abrong Itisa {mall graine fpo:ted with blacke and white, and like unto Qzy the graine Waiz : Lobel affenteth unto fuch of his friends aetookeittobe Dsojcorides his I/opyrum, whereunto it commeth neerer ashe faith, then unto avy fort of AZelanchinm, {uch as Matthiolus gave it for, or a8 Dodonaus SY) Sy) LL imhis French Herball, Trifolsum palaftre : batall alike,e- RAVENS very.one wanting fome thing or other. Lobel calleth it thereforeas it wasufuall, (or Indum, or Pifam Indicum, Cordus granum cordit, and Tabermontanus Cardifpermon Tragus alo faichic was called with them AZuncks Kopfflin id ef; Monachicalvaria, ot as Gefner faith, (apat Mon nachi, Lobelal{o calleth it Pifum Cordatum, but Baxhinus putting ic among the Peafe,asa fort thereof, calleth it Pifam veficarium fruttn nigro alba maculata notato, The Vertues, Some afignatur would makeit availeable for faintings and other difeafesof the heart, but without experience asIthinke, Cordis faithas is beforerelated, tobe a great provokerto fleepe,even to the dangerof life, if the\quantity be not proportioned : 1 find not any ofthe orher Aus thours that hath writcen of it, hath fet downe any property. they-knew,or heard to be init. Cuar XXVIL Lay re Z (- Delphinum five Confolida reg atis fy lqe/ris. Wild Larkes Spurres, iinet Cuar. XXVIII. Delphinumfive Confolida regalia, Larkes {purtes or heeles, Paonia, Peony. Ihave fhewed you fome forts of Peoniess which were the male, 5 saagerea Lthough ininy formet Bookeof the female fingle, yet not allthatare extant, thofe that wanted of double,andthree k <3) (SY twoforts fhall be fupplyed here,with the Vertues more largely amplyfied. Ofthe male kindel know pee Have inmy former Booke fhewed youall the forts of Larkes {purres, both tame and wilde, 5, both fingle and double, both fimple andfeverall A0 olours, and party coloured, that I havenota- neither, 1. Peoniafemina Hifpanica pumila. STOTTATS SOT * ny more to bringto your confideration: Yet I thinke good hereto prefent you with fome figures of them, that [had by mee, and with:hema kinde of different Nafturtium Indicum, in the forme of the leaves, which Lobel had formerly fet forth, taken as it islikely, ro the life of the viewed plant,how foever it hath bene fince mifliked by many others, who fincehis time have not obtained the like to feeagaine, yet thathindereth not much theverity of the thing,no more then the relation of Hondivs the younger, ofa wae flower of this kinde, which wee have not as yet feene aA} there GV. but one fort, whichisfingle andnot double, howfoever Befler in horto Eyftetenfi, erronionfly i hath entituled many therewith, wherefore I chinke itnot amiffe to give you thefigures of beth forts, that the reft may be knowne by them, TheSpani~h dwarfe Peony, This dwarfe Spanifh kinde as C/u/ius faith,rofe with him from the: feede he received thence, growing with leaves that were more finely cut into divers parts and more pointedalfo, greene on theupperfide, bat not thining as others,and hoary white underneath, among whichfpratig flender pale greene ftalkes, lower then others, and at the toppes of each afmaller flower, madeof cight leaves, of a morepurplifh colour, then the ordinaty double Peony andas {weete, with many white threds tipt with yellow, ftanding about. the middle bicornered head,whichgrowing ripe, containeth withinit,blackith blew feede: the rooreis glandulous like other female Peopies but {maller, 2» Peoniafemina Aguiline folys. Columbine leafed Peony. This hath fundry diffeéted leaves rifing trom the roote, which hath manylong clogs hanging thereat, a8 other forts of female Peonies have,parted into three divifions, each producing three rounder pointedfhort leaves then in any other,cutlikewife in on the edges, of apale greene colour on the upperfide, and woollyor hoary white underneath, foneerely reprefenting Columbine leaves, that ic will foone deceive one that isnor well vertt in thefe things, C/ujius faith thac Hogheland from whom he received the plant, which as then had not borne flowers and therefore could not defcribe them ; fignified unto himthat it was a kinde of male Peony: but Ithinke hee wastherein deceived, the forme of the rootesbeingas others of the female kinde, contradicting that opinion. 3, Peoniafemina verficolor, The party coloured Peony. The difference of this from the others confifteth chiefly in the flowers, whichare fometimes of a pale red, and fometimes of a deeper red colour wholly, and fometimes parted with both the{e colours, either to the halves, or with ftripes and veines, 4. Peonia femina Leucanthemss & Ochranthemos, The female white and pale yellow Peony. Both thefe fores of Peonies I mut deliver you hut upon trutt of others fidelity thar have related them,the white , Bbbbbb 2 Peony |