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j The fmallcror finer leafed double Marigold groweth vpright, bauing for the mod narr 

 ftecr* or fat fpongeous ftalke,garnifhed with fraooth and flat Ieaues confufedly. The flourcs 

 at the top of the fraall branches, very double, but leflcrtban the other, confiding of more fin? * 

 gidnefle,and of a faire yellow gold colour. The root is like the precedent. ,ag * 



4 The Globe- flouring Marigold hath many large broad Ieaues rifing immediately forth r>f 

 the ground ., among which rifeth vp a ftalkeof the height of a cubit, diuiding it felfe toward rh 

 top into other fmaller branches, let or garnifhed with the like Ieaues, but confufedly, or witho^ 

 order. The floures grow at the tops of the ftalkes,very double h the fmall Ieaues whereof are fct ! 

 comely order by certaine rankes or rowes,as fundry lines are in a Globe,trauerfing the whole ^ 

 pa (Te of the fame 5 whereupon it tooke the name Orbiculata. 



5 The fifth fort of double Marigold differcth not from the laft defctibed, fauing in the co'ou 

 of the flourcs • for this plant bringeth forth floures of a ftraw or light yellow colour, and rhe others 

 nor fo, wherein confifteth the difference. 



J All thefe fiue here defcribed,and which formerly had fo many figures,d iffer nothing but 

 thebignefieandlittlenefle of the plants and floures,and inthcintenfeneffeand remifnefle of their 

 colour,wbich is either orangc,yellow,or ofa ftraw colour. % 



6 The Marigold with fingle floures differcth not from thofe with double floures, but in that 

 it confifteth of fewer Ieaues, which we therefore terme fingle, in comparifon of the reft and ttat 

 makcrh the difference. 



7 This fruitfull or much bearing Marigold is likewifc called of the vulgar fort of women 

 lacke-an-apes on horfe backe : it hath Ieaues, ftalkes, and roots like the common fort of Marigold 

 ^itferingin thefhapeof his flours,for this plant doth bring forth at the top of the ftalkeoneflourc 

 Iikc theother Marigolds • from the which ftart forth fundry other fmall floures, yellow likewifc, 

 and of the fame fafliion as the firft, which if I be not deceiucd commeth to paflc per accidtm^ or by 

 chance, as Nature oftentimes liketh to play with other floures, or as children are borne with two 

 thumbes on onehand,and fuch like,which liuing to be men, do get children like vntoothers • euen 

 fo is the feed of this Marigold,which if it be fowen,it brings forth not one floure in a thoufand like 

 the plant from whence it was taken. 



8 The other fruitfull Marigold is doubtlefle a degenerate kind, comming by chance from the 



feed of the double Marigold, whereas for the raoft part the other commeth of the feed of the fingl 

 floure$,wherein confifteth the difference, t The floureof this(whercin the only difference co§ 

 lifts) you (hall finde exprcft at the bo t tome of the fourth figure. $ 



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9 Calendula Kjtlpna. 



Mountaine Marigold, 



9 The Alpifh or mountaine Marigold, 

 which Lobelius fetteth downe for tardus Ctl- 

 flexor Plantago ^dlftna^ is called by TibtrnA- 

 mont anus £ alt ba^ or Calendula i^dlpina.and be- 



caufe I fee it rather refembles a Marigold, 

 than any other plants I haue not thought it a- 

 mifle to infert it in this place, Jeauing the 

 confideration thereof vnto the friendly Rea- 

 der, or to a further consideration, becaufe it 

 is a plant that I am not well acquainted with- 

 al! • yet I do reade that it hath a thicke root, 

 growing aflope vnder the vpper cruft of the 

 earth, of an aromaticall or fpicie taftc,aixl 

 fomewhat biting, with many threddy firings 

 annexed thereto: from which rife*p broii 

 thicke and rough Ieaues of an ouerworn green 

 colour, not vnlike to thofe of Plantaine: a- 

 mong which there rifeth vp a rough and ten- 

 der ftalke fet with the like Jeaues : on the top 

 wherof commeth forth a finglc yellow flourf , 

 paled about the edges with fmall Ieaues ofa 

 Jight yellow, tending to a ftraw colour ; the 

 middle of the floure is compofed ofa bundle 

 of threds,thicke thruft together, fuch as is & 

 the middle of the field Daifie,of a dcepe ycl : 



Jew colour. , 



This plant is all one with the two dc 



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