The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



The Time. 



All of them doe flower early in the yeare, that is, in the beginning of A- 

 prill, about which time moft commonly Eafter doth fall. 



The Names. 



Their proper names are giuen to each in their feuerall titles, being all of 

 them kindes of wilde Anemones, as I faid in the beginning of the Chapter, 

 and fo for the moft part all Authors doe acknowledge them. We call them 

 in Englifh, becaufe they flower about Eafter, Pafque flower, which is the 

 French name for Eafter, or Euphonicz gratia, Paffe flower, which may pafle 

 currant, without any further defcant on the name, or elfe Pulfatilla, if you 

 will, being growne old by cuftome. 



The Vertues. 



The fharpe biting and exulcerating quality of this plant, caufeth it to be 

 of little vfe, notwithstanding loachimus Camerarius faith in his Hortus Me- 

 dicus, that in Boruffia, which is a place in Italy, as I take it, the diftilled wa- 

 ter hereof is vfed with good fuccefle, to be giuen to them that are troubled 

 with a Tertian Ague ; for he faith that it is medicamentum OK^POKTIKOV, that is, a 

 medicine of force to helpe obftruftions. 



Anemone filuejtris lati folia albajiue tertia Matthioli. 

 The white wilde broad leafed Windflower. 



This Windflower hath diuers broad greene leaues, cut into diuifions, and dented 

 about, very like vnto a broad leafed Crowfoote, among which rifeth vp a ftalke, ha- 

 uing fome fuch like cut leaues in the middle thereof, as growe below, but fmaller ; on 

 the toppe whereof ftandeth one large white flower, conlifting of fiue leaues for the 

 moft part, with fome yellow threads in the middle, ftanding about fuch a greene head 

 as is in the tame or garden Anemones, which growing greater after the flower is paft, 

 is compofed of many fmall feedes, wrapped in white wooll, which as foone as they 

 are ripe, raife themfelues vp from the bottome of the head, and flye away with the 

 winde, as the other tame or garden kindes doe : the roote is made of a number of long 

 blacke firings, encreafing very much by running vnder ground, and (hooting vp in di- 

 uers places. 



Anemone filueftris tenuifolia lutea. The yellow wilde thin leafed Windflower. 



The yellow wilde Anemone rifeth vp with one or two fmall round naked ftalkes, 

 bearing about the middle of them, fmall, foft, and tender iagged leaues, deeply cut in 

 and indented on the edges about, from aboue which doth grow the ftalke, bearing 

 fmall yellow flowers, ftanding vpon weake foote-ftalkes, like vnto a fmall Crowfoot, 

 with fome threads in the middle : the roote is long and fmall, fomewhat like vnto the 

 roote of Pollipodie, creeping vnder the vpper cruft of the earth : this kinde is lower, 

 and fpringeth fomewhat earlier then the other wilde kindes that follow. 



Anemone Jilueftris tenuifolia albajimplex. 

 The fingle white thin leafed wilde Windflower. 



This white wilde Anemone rifeth vp with diuers leaues vpon feuerall long ftalkes ; 

 which are fomewhat like vnto the former, but that they are fomewhat harder, and not 

 fo long, nor the diuifions of the leaues fo finely fnipt about the edges, but a little 

 broader, and deeper cut in on euery fide: the flowers hereof are larger and broader 

 then the former, white on the infide, and a little purplifh on the outfide, efpecially at 



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