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Show 1380 Theatrum Botanicum. ca) CHHAP.20, Peony two, witnefles,the one Bellonins in his Obfervations, the other Honorins Bellus, “each of themare telting thar in the Mountaine Idain (andysthere growethin great plency, a white Peony,and Honoriss Bellus that Trise15. The Tbeater of Plants. Cou Aa 2.28, Peoriamas, The inale Peony in the whole Ifland thereisno otherfort of Peony to be found, but yet is a'promifcroxs or doubrfull fort, and yer fince theirtime we have not heard ofany hath.enjoyed one of fuch a colour, unlefle Befler in borto Eyf ae fhould meane it that he calleth Peoria mas flore albo, But Camerarigs faith that that which paffeth unde coat : tle, is not perfit white,but whitifh with fome rednefle amongit, which maketha faint blafh colour Forth : ae yellow, Camerarivs alfo faith, that one by fuch a name he had out ofthe Lantsgrave of Heffen his'Gants i at had notas then when he wrote thereof fowred with him,neither yet to this time chat I write this ‘ ca I _ 2 of anythat hathit,buc words enonghI heare. a ae ngs Pconia femina promifcva. The doubtfull female Peony. Becaufe the leaves of this Peony have fome refemblance to thofe of the male,it caufed Lobel to entitle it P mifcus five ncutra, fayitig, ifyou behold what growes above gronnd, you would fay sc were amale, b _ if he rootes underground, a female,and faith that P/iny made this themas, but Dodoveus referrethitro th ‘ per a which hath longer and {maller rootes, calling it feminaaltera, whereby itis plaine chat one of | I i Re i ot. vedtherein alfo,& 28 F chinke a tranfpofitionof the figures in Lobel, for that figure in Lobels Saneis takes Nike title Promifeua is the firft female in Dodonews, which hee faith was moft common with the ete Siaeithen the ether being brought inafterwards, whichI thinke dothneerer refemble the leaves of the le es . i di. cious confider this well,and gainefayiit if ir be erronious,for although Bashinus taketh Dadenens | i a : eed . ra, tobe the molt common, yet furely I can not finde it fo with chofe plants,that arethe moft ¢ Sent eh lein our Country,and fo he doth Befler his errour ofdivers forts of the male,and of divers colours sas a ; hite a likewife, among thereft; whichhe calleth Peonia mas flore albo: butas Dedonens theieth Bi fies Ringuifh betweene the male and female Peony, firftbythe leaves, the maleto be vt he ingle 4 nae nto thofe of the Wallnuttree, and fecondly inthe rootes, that they are Geuioa: a cade tiuth willucterly confound both Befler y promifeda, al the ocher forts fhew 6, Pao a femina fimplici flore pleno,ex femi: ’ Ke? a and Baxhinas opinions therein endLeb racd a ves tobe females thei See oe 4 plenirubri vulearis Ciupo or cand double f ; es, that {prang with Clafins of the feede of thedout! lered wing infome yeares feede fromthe ordinary double red Peony (which ic total he in three year es he had plants that bore fowers, {ome fingle and fome de ange th 4 fe for colour moft like unto the mother, but was finele, confifting. ; ly ffs a =a ae Another; bore a larger eigheleaves, whofecolour Sofotoldee was ans een ote © g flower of cight ofa deeper red, draw third bore a double flower,as great asthe mother plant or greater. ‘ d f He s he: faith another like the mother plant in leaves, &c. whofe flower w: venti bt : suble, the, colour bei COLOUI whereof was ofa c deepered. ¢ cing necre the nes in thofe Icaves that grewin the middle, bioneffe 5 of thewn doublee jesip paaidadcan pone mina flore pleno Purpu rce. wf o1eibarydouble red Pron y, 7, Peoniafemina fore pleno carseo major, A greaterdoublebluih Peony: | From Count Aremberg, and John Boifot, perfonsworthy of credit faith Cifis, 1 received intelligence,that at luth doable Braffells inthe garden of the Lady Tifenac, who wasthe Prefidents Widdow , they faw growl erty of Peony, greater then the ordinary, and as great as the ordinary double red, yet holdi the other double blufh flower, which istogrow whiter byftanding, and to held ti along time, The Plac efctiptions,and their fowring, &c The places the oth e all i nyo E names are given ic both in Greeke 2 Paxthiceraron,Thécdonion, alfo Rofa faruina, RerbaCae Pimgarner; called Sida in aninhistime, And Ag/dophori frem the fhining rednefle of ulous and deteftable illufions ofe£léanns his Aglaaphotiz, and yn > the red graives or {eedes, fror Baciaras are referred and reported of Peony,as maybe feene in the Writings of the Auncients.7yagus nat in his time the male Peony roores were fold. for Dzéfamnus albus, but 1 thinke Trages was therein deceived, for I verily chinke they were the {ame white rootes which noware taken and called Diftamnws albus , whenthey are the rootes of Haa31 fhewed beforeiachat Chapres, forthe rootes of the male Peony meth methe moreherein, becanfe Trag faith, the leaves of that Peony are not fo white asthey, + which he tooke to be the male, himfelfedefcribeth reafonabie leaves like an Afh,or Licoris, and fuch are y» inthe feventh Chapter ofhisfirlt Booke, much miftaken in the fent ro be like Cinamon, unlefle it be diversin fhewed before alfo, chat v fox white Peonyroores. made mentionof all faye one,and Arabians call it Feonia, the Italians the Germanes Peoxien Rofen,B the Fraxinela leaves, whichal{o with Dittanus Cretenfis, buc the Rhyne traét from others. And Lhavée couzeners, and deceivers, to fell the white rootes of the gteatér'Oenanthe, ethnotany farther explication ofthefe forts of Peonies, fince Clxfius hath Samerarivsinborto, and Bellonivs doe exprefie, whichis the fourth. The Peoniathe Spanivrds Rofadel monte, and Ko/a Albarieira, the French Pivoixe, ten Rofen, Ping & rofen, Kiinigs blamen,and Gichrwurtx, the Dutch Rivsetien ende Maft bloemen,and wein Englifs Piony,or Peony, - 7 The Vertwes : It is faith Galesof thin parts,and drying,yet not very notably hot, bucaccording to our owne fymmetry, o confticutiori,or rather a lictle hotter,an aftringent quality alfo,with fome {weeteneffe it hath, and fome acrimony likewi, and bitterneffe joyned together, ‘whereby iciseffeCuall to procure womens courtes; if thé biggeBbbbbb3 ” nefle |