~The Garden of plealant Flowers. 
‘1.EUeboras albus vulgaris. White Ellebor or Neefing roote. 
The firlt great white Ellebor rifeth at the firft out of the ground, with a whitith 
ene gteat round head, which growing vp, opencth it felfe into many goodly faire 
Se oe leaues, plaited or ribbed with eminent ribbes all along.the leaues , com- 
pafling oneanother at the bottome, in the middle whereof rifeth i a ftalkethree toot 
_ hhigh or better, with divers fach like leaues thereon, but fmaller tothe middle thereof, _ 
from whenceto the toppcitis diuidedinto many branches, hauing many finall yel- 
lowith, or whitifh greene ftarre-like flowers all along vponthem, which after turne 
into fmall, long, three {quare whitith fede, ftanding naked, without any huske to con- 
tainéthem, although fome haue written otherwife: the roote is thicke and reafonable 
great atthe head, hauing a number of great white ftrings running downe deepe into 
the ground, whereby it is ftrongly faftened.. _.. 
__ 2. Efleboras albus pracex fine anebente fore. 
The carly white Ellebor with reddith flowers. 
"This other Ellebor is very like the former, but that it {pringeth vp a moneth atthe 
leaft before it,and that the leaues are not fully fo thicke or fo much plaited,butas large 
r larger, and doe fooner perifh and fall away from the plant : the ftalke hereof is as 
high as the former, bearing fuch like ftarry flowers, but of a darke or blackifhred co- 
Tour : the feedeis like the other : the roote hath no {uch head as the other (fo farreasI 
haue obferued, both by mine own and others plants)but hath many long white ftrings 
op,which is as it were along bulbous fealy head , outof which {pring 
a y” 3 ” +2 
‘The firft groweth in many places of Germany , as alfo in fome parts of 
Ruffia, in that aboundance, by the relation of that worthy, curious, and di- 
___ ligent fearcher and preferuer of all natures rarities and varieties, my very 
| f° ood friend, Iohn Tradefcante, often heretofore remembred, that,ashee 
~ faid,a good fhip might be loaden with therootes hereof, which hee faw in 
an Ifland there. nee epi Gare 
The other likewife groweth in the vpland woeddy grounds of Germa- 
nie,andotherthepartsthereabouts. © 
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OO phe felt f ringet 1vpin theend or mid le of March , and flowreth in 
Bee Tune. The fecond fp ingethin February, but flowrethnotvntillIune, 
"The firft is called Edeborws albus, or Helleborus albus , the letter H, asall 
Schollersknow , being but 4/pirationts seta: and Veratrum album floreviri- 
dante, of fome Sanguis Hereals, The otheris called Edcboras albus pracox, 
and flore atrorubente, or atrepurpurante. We call the firft in Englith, White 
Ellebor, Neefewort, or Neefing roote, becaufe the powder of the roote is 
_ vfed to procure em Coed itthe greater , in regard of thofe in the 
vow o next Chapter. Theeot hath hig nameaccerding roche Latine title; moft 
Vint Ge ‘proper for it. | ae 7 GZany ‘gh ae 
the former ; and therefore isnot carelefly to bee vfed, without extreame 
__..», Sanger; yetin contumatious and ftubborne difeafes it ey bea sion 4 
good 
