2OO The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



2. Pulfatilla Danica. The Pafle flower of Denmarke. 



There is another that was brought out of Denmarke, very like vnto the former, but 

 that it is larger both in roote and leafe, and flower alfo, which is of a fairer purple co- 

 lour, not fo deepe, and befides, will better abide to bee mannured then our Englifh 

 kinde will, as my felfe haue often proued. 



ore Of both thefe forts it is faid, that fome plants haue bin found, that haue borne white 

 dbo ^ fore fl OW ers. And likewife one that bore double flowers, that is, with two rowes of leaues. 



duphct, 



3. Pulfatilla flore rubro. The red Pafle flower. 



Lobel, as I take it, did firft fet forth this kinde, being brought him from Syria, the 

 leaues whereof are finer cut, the flower fmaller, and with longer leaues, and of a red 

 colour. 



4. Pulfatilla flore luteo. The yellow Pafle flower. 



The yellow Pafle flower hath his leaues cut and diuided, very like vnto the leaues 

 of the firft kinde, but fomewhat more hairie, greene on the vpperfide, and hairie vn- 

 derneath : the ftalke is round and hoary, the middle whereof is befet with fome fmall 

 leaues, as in the other, from among which rifeth vp the ftalke of the flower, confifting 

 of fix leaues of a very faire yellow colour on the infide, and of a hoary pale yellow on 

 the outfide ; after which followeth fuch an head of hairie thrummes as in the former : 

 the roote is of the bignefle of a mans finger. 



5. Pulfatilla flore albo. The white Pafle flower. 



The white Pafle flower (which Clufius maketh a kinde of Anemone^ and yet as hee 

 faith himfelfe, doth more nearely refemble the Pulfatilla) hath, from amongft a tuft or 

 head of haires, which grow at the toppe of a long blacke roote, many leaues ftanding 

 vpon long ftalkes, which are diuided as it were into three wings or parts, and each 

 part finely cut and diuided, like vnto the Pafle flower of Denmarke, but fomewhat 

 harder in handling, greenifh on the vpperfide, and fomewhat gray vnderneath, and 

 very hairie all ouer : among thefe leaues rife vp the ftalkes, befet at the middle of them 

 with three leaues, as finely cut and diuided as thofe belowe, from aboue which ftandeth 

 the flower, being fmaller, and not fo pendulous as the former, but in the like manner 

 confifting of fix leaues, of a fnow white colour on the infide, and a little browner on 

 the outfide, with many yellow thrums in the middle : after the flower is paft, rifeth vp 

 fuch a like hoary head, compofed as it were of many haires, each whereof hath a fmall 

 feede faftened vnto it, like as the former Pafle flowers haue. 



The Place. 



The firft is found in many places of England, vpon dry bankes that lye 

 open to the Sunne. 



The fecond was firft brought, as I take it, by Doctor Lobel from Den- 

 marke, & is one of the two kinds, that Clufius faith are common in Germa- 

 nic, this bearing a paler purple flower, and more early then the other, which 

 is the fame with our Englilh, whofe flower is fo darke, that it almoft fee- 

 meth blacke. 



The red kinde, as Lobel faith, came from Syria. 



The yellow Pafle flower, which Clufius maketh his third wilde Anemone, 

 was found very plentifully growing at the foote of St. Bernards Hill, neare 

 vnto the Cantons of the Switzers. 



The white one groweth on the Alpes neare Auftria, in France likewife, 

 and other places. 



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