198 REMARKS ON THE HEPATICA. 



together; the flowers (when it showeth them, for I have had the 

 plant half a score years, and yet never saw it bear flower above once 

 or twice) are of a pale or bleak blue colour, not so large as the 

 flowers of the former. 



3. The purple H. — This Hepatica is in all things like unto the 

 first, but only the flowers are of a deep purple, tending to a violet 

 purple. Small and very double. 



4. The lesser white H. — The flowers of this Hepatica are wholly 

 white, of the bigness of the red or purple, and the leaves somewhat 

 smaller, and of a little whiter or paler green colour ; else in all other 

 things agreeing with the former. 



5. The great white H. — There is no other difference herein from 

 the last, but that the flower, being as white, is much larger. 



6. The ash-coloured or Argentrive H. — Both the leaves and the 

 flowers of this Hepatica are larger than any of the former except the 

 last ; the flowers hereof at the first opening seem to be of a blush 

 ash colour, which do so abide three or four days, decaying still until 

 it turn almost white, having yet still a show of that blush ash colour 

 in them till the very last. 



7. The white H. with red threads (stamens). — There is no dif- 

 ference between this Hepatica and the first white one, saving that 

 the threads in the middle of the flower being white, as in the former, 

 are tipt at the ends with a pale reddish colour, which added a great 

 beauty to the flowers. 



8. The red H. — The leaves of this Hepatica are of a little browner 

 red colour, both at their first coming up and afterwards, especially 

 in the middle of the leaf, more than any of the former ; the flowers 

 are in form like unto the rest, but of a bright blush or pale red 

 colour, very pleasant to behohl, with white threads or chives in the 

 middle of them. 



9- The double purple H. — The double Hepatica is in all things 

 like unto the single purple kind, saving only that the leaves are 

 larger, and stand upon longer foot-stalks, and that the flowers are 

 small buttons, but very thick of leaves (petals), and as double as a 

 flower can be, of a deep blue or purple colour, without any threads 

 or bead in the middle, which fall away without giving any seed. 



10. The double blue H. — In the colour of this flower consisteth 

 the chief difference from the last, except one may say it is a little 



