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and that to good effect. It is vfed alfo for women in long and hard trauels, 

 where there is danger, to accelerate the birth, either the roote or the leate 

 being applyed. But tor any amorous effects, I hold it meere fabulous. 



CHAP. XXV. 



Anemone. \Vindeflower and his kindes. 



THe next tuberous rooted plants that are to follow (of right in my opinion) are 

 the Ancmwf or Windeflowers, and although fome tuberous rooted plants, 

 that is, the Afphodils, Spiderworts, and Flowerdeluces haue beene before in- 

 ferted, it was, both becaufe they were in name or forme of flowers futable to them 

 whom they were ioyned vnto, and alfo that they ihould not be feuered and entreated 

 of in two feuerall places : the relt are now to follow, at the leaft fo many of them as 

 be beautifull flowers, fit to furnilh a Florifts Garden, for natures delightfome varieties 

 and excellencies. To dillinguifh the Family of Anemones I may, that is, into the wilde 

 kindes, and into the tame or mannured, as they are called, and both of them nourfed 

 vp in Gardens ; and of them into thofe that haue broader leaues, and into thofe that 

 haue thinner or more iagged leaues : and of each of them, into thofe that bcare fingle 

 flowers, and thofe that beare double flowers. But to defcribe the infinite (as I may fo 

 fay) variety of the colours of the flowers, and to giue to each his true dirtinction and 

 denomination, Hie /afar, hoc opus eji, it farre pafleth my ability I confeiTe, and I thinke 

 would grauell the belt experienced this day in Europe (and the like I faid concerning 

 Tulipas, it being as contingent to this plant, as is before faid of the Tulipa, to be with- 

 out end in yeelding varieties :) for who can fee all the varieties that haue fprung from 

 the fowing of the feede in all places, feeing the variety of colours rifen from thence, is 

 according to the variety of ayres &c grounds wherein they are fowne, skill alfo helping 

 nature in ordering them aright. For the feede of one and the fame plant fowne in di- 

 uers ayres and grounds, doe produce that variety of colours that is much differing one 

 from another ; who then can difplay all the mixtures of colours in them, to fet them 

 downe in fo fmall a roome as this Book ? Yet as I haue done (in the former part of this 

 Treatife) my good will, to exprefle as many of each kinde haue come to my know- 

 ledge, fo if I endeauour the like in this, I hope the courteous wil accept it, and hold me 

 excufed for the reft : otherwife, if I were or could be abfolute, I mould take from my felf 

 and others the hope of future augmentation, or addition of any new, which neuer will 

 be wanting. To begin therefore with the wilde kinds (as they are fo accounted) I fliall 

 firtt entreate of the Pulfatillas or Pafque flowers, which are certainly kindes of wilde 

 Anemones, both in leafe and flower, as may well be difcerned by them that are iudici- 

 ous (although fome learned men haue not fo thought, as appeareth by their writings) 

 the rootes of them making one fpeciall note of difference, from the other forts of 

 wilde Anemones. 



I . Pulfatilla Anglica purpurca. The purple Pafque flower. 



The Pafque or Pafle flower which is of our owne Country, hath many leaues lying 

 on the ground, fomewhat rough or hairie, hard in feeling, and finely cut into many 

 fmall leaues, of a darke greene colour, almolt like the leaues of Carrets, but finer and 

 fmaller, from among which rife vp naked ftalkes, rough or hairie alfo, fet about the 

 middle thereof with fome fmall diuided leaues comparting them, and riling aboue 

 thel e leaues about a f panne, bearing euery one of them one pendulous flower, made of 

 fix leaues, of a fine Violet purple colour, but fomewhat deepe withall, in the middle 

 whereof lland many yellow threeds, fet about a middle purple pointell : after the 

 flower is palt, there commeth vp in the Itead thereof a bufhie head of long f cedes, 

 which are fmall and hoarie, hauing at the end ot euery one a (mall haire, which is gray 

 likewife: the roote is fmall and long, growing downewards into the ground, with a 

 tuft of haire at the head thereof, and not lying or running vnder the vpper crult there- 

 of, as the other wilde Anemones doe. 



2. Pulfa- 



