350. «ss LheGardenof pleajant Flowers. 
two fuchgr 
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Gentiana, Gentian or Fell-wort. 
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Here ate divers forts of Gentians or Fell-wortes, fome greater, othersleffer, — 
and fomevery {mall ; many of them haue very beautiful flowers, butbecanfe * 
_fomearevery fuddenly palt, before one would rhinke they, were blowne open 
andothers willabidenocultureand manuring,. I will onely fet forth ynto youtwo of 
the greater forts,and three of the leffer kindes,as fitteft,and more familiarly furnithi 
our gardens, leauing the reft to their bo caustics. andto “ = ded 
in set Works. i Lotidveatt. atic ack w saan 
is cenisneir fifty The great Genrtdn 
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i The great Gentian rifeth wpst the firk, ‘witha long, round and. ileal head of 4 
we clofing oneanother, which after opening themfelues, lye vpon the groun at 
arefaite, long and broad; fomewhat plaitedor ribbed likeynto the leaves of white 
teas cit fh sae poled fairely oceminently plaited, neyther fo ftiffe, but, 3 
rather refembling the leanes of agreat Plantane : 
round ali, he foote high or better, full of i ioynts, hauingtwofuchleaues, but 
narrowerand fi mallerat euery ioynt, focompafling about the By at the lower oy ; a 
apaegiie shack othe ope, tgaried with my hintothem : ey amet a 
tothe 
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which are ‘tow ppchap Samae fir of “final greenith huskes, with 
fome thredsin the'middle of them, but of. no fent at all, -yet feclyie behold,. both a 
for the order,height and proportion of the > plant : the feede is browne and flat, con- 
tained in round heads, fomewhat like vatothe feedeofthe Fritillari, or checker +8 4 
Daffodill, but browner: a Siete yellow,and exceeding 
es oe. Ton 
bitter. 3 
Giana fl Af ipl Swalon-nor Gentian, 
“‘Thiskinde of Gebtian hath many flalkes riline fons the roate, neere — foote ; q 
h, whereon grow many faire palegreeneleaties, fet by couples, withthree ribs in 
euery one of them, and doe fomewhat refemble the leaues of  felepias or Swallow- 
‘wort, thatis, broadéat the bottomie;and tharpe at the point : | itheflowers grow atthe © 
feuerall ioynts of the ftalkes, from the middle vpwards,two or three together, which — 
are long and hollow, like vnto a bell fowe#; ending in fiue corners,or pointed leaues, — 
and folded before they are open, as the flowers of the Bindeweedes are, of a faire 
pre oan ‘fometim 3 decperjand fometimes paler: ‘thehheads or feedé veffels haue | 
int or heres atthe toppes, and containe within them flatgrayith feed, like vn-_ 
rote former,but leffe’: the rootes hereof aie nothing east former, butae 
Y. bea mall and hika Gees bigaetle of atmaristhumbey. 5 sTsio I | 
ui fags Ahnsdeflin r18q fiom * leee Stl ons 
3° .Gentiana minor Cruciet ‘Croffe-wort Gentian, »: 5 rae 
:. from among which rifeth vpaftifle: : 
