204 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



fius would haue them, Leimonia of Theophraftus ; they are generally called 

 of molt Herbarifts Anemones Jilueflres, Wilde Anemones or Windflowers. 

 The Italians call them Gengeuo faluatico, that is, Wilde Ginger, becaufe the 

 rootes are, befides the torme, being fomewhat like fmall Ginger, of a bi- 

 ting hot and fharpe tarte. 



Anemone Lujitanica Jiue hor ten/is latifolia fare Jimp lid luteo. 

 The fingle Garden yellow Windflower or Anemone. 



This fingle yellow Anemone or Windflower hath diuers broad round leaues, fome- 

 what diuided and endented withall on the edges, brownifh at the firft rifing vp out of 

 the ground, and almoft folded together, and after of a fad greene on the vpperiide, 

 and reddifh vnderneath ; among which rife vp fmall (lender ftalkes, befet at the mid- 

 dle of them with two or three leaues, more cut and diuided then thofe belowe, with 

 fmall yellow flowers at the toppe of them, confifting of ten or twelue leaues a peece, 

 hauing a few yellow threads in the middle of them, ftanding about a fmall greene 

 head, which in time growing ripe hath fmall flat feede, inclofed within a foft wooll 

 or downe, which is eaiily blowne away with the winde : the roote groweth downe- 

 ward into the ground, diuerfly fpread with branches here and there, of a brownim yel- 

 low on the outfide, and whitim within, fo brittle, that it can hardly bee touched with- 

 out breaking. 



Anemone latifolia Jtore luteo duplici. The double yellow Anemone or Windflower. 



This double yellow Anemone hath fuch broad round leaues as the fingle kinde 

 hath, but fomewhat larger or ranker : the ftalkes are befet with larger leaues, more 

 deeply cut in on the edges : the flowers are of a more pale yellow, with fome purplifh 

 veines on the outfide, and a little round pointed ; but they are all on the infide of a 

 faire yellow colour, confifting of two rowes of leaues, whereof the innermoft is the 

 narrower, with a fmall greene head in the middle, compaffed with yellow threads as 

 in the former : the roote is like the roote of the fingle ; neither of thefe haue any good 

 fent, and this fpringeth vp and flowreth later then the fingle kinde. 



Anemone latifolia pur pur ea ftellatajiue papaveracea. 

 The purple Starre Anemone or Windflower. 



The firft leaues of this purple Anemone, which alwayes fpring vp before Winter, 

 (if the roote be not kept too long out of the ground,) are fomewhat like the leaues of 

 Sanicle or Selfe-heale, but the reft that follow are more deeply cut in and iagged ; a- 

 mong which rife vp diuers round ftalkes, befet with iagged leaues as all other Anemo- 

 nes are, aboue which leaues, the ftalkes rifing two or three inches high, beare one 

 flower a peece, compofed of twelue leaues or more, narrow and pointed, of a bleake 

 purple or whitim afh-colour, fomewhat fhining on the outfide, and of a fine purple co- 

 lour tending to a murrey on the infide, with many blackifh blew threads or thrummes 

 in the middle of the flower, fet about a head, whereon groweth the feede, which is 

 fmall and blacke, inclofed in foft wooll or downe, which flieth away with the winde, 

 carrying the feede with it, if it be not carefully gathered : the roote is blackifh on the 

 outfide, and white within, tuberous or knobby, with many fibres growing at it. 



Anemone purpurea Stellata altera. Another purple Starre Anemone. 



There is fo great diuerfity in the colours of the flowers of thefe broad leafed kinds of 

 Anemones or Windflowers, that they can very hardly be exprefled, although in their 

 leaues there is but little or no difference. I mall not neede therefore to make feuerall 

 defcriptions of euery one that lhall be fet downe ; but it will be fufficient, I thinke, to 

 giue you the diftinctions of the flowers : for as I faid, therein is the greateft and chie- 

 feft difference. This other Starre Anemone differeth not from the former in leafe or 

 flower, but onely that this is of a more pale f ullen colour on the outfide, and of a paler 

 purple colour on the infide. There 



