The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 







2. Ranunculus motif tinus albus rnaior vf/ elatior. 

 The great linglc white niountaiuc Crowtbote. 



The leaues of this Crowfoote are large and greenc, cut into three, and fometimcs 

 into fine fpeciall diuilions, and each of them bcfidcs cut or notched about the edges, 

 fomewhat refembling the leaues of the Globe Crowfootc, but larger: the (hike is 

 two foote and a halfe high, hauing three fmall leaues fct at the ioynt of the ftalke, 

 where it brancheth out into flowers, which (land foure or fiuc together vpon long 

 toote-llalkes, made of flue white leaues a peece, very fweete, and fomewhat larger 

 then the next white Crowfoote, with fomc yellow threads in the middle compafling 

 a greenc head, which bringeth fecde like vnto other wilde Crowfeete: the rootc 

 hath many long thicke whitilh llrings, comming from a thicke head. 



3. Ranunculus tnontanus albui minor. The lefler (ingle white Crowfoote. 



This Crowefoote hath faire large fpread leaues, cut into fiue diuifions, and fome- 

 what notched about the edges, greene on the vpperfide, and paler vnderneath, hauing 

 many veines running through the leaues : the (lalke of this rifeth not fo high as the 

 former, although this be reafonable tall, as being neare two foote high, fpread into 

 many branches, bearing fuch like white flowers, as in the former, but fmaller : the 

 feede of this is like the former, and fo are the rootes likewifc. 



4. Ranunculus albus flore pleno. The double white Crowfoot. 



The double white Crowfoote is of the fame kinde with the laft fingle white Crow- 

 foote, hauing fuch like leaues in all ref peels: the onely difference is in the flowers, 

 which in this are very thicke and double. Some doe make mention of two forts of 

 double white Crowfeete, one fomewhat lower then another, and the lower like- 

 wife bearing more (lore of flowers, and more double then the higher: but I con- 

 fefle, I haue neuer feene but one fort of double, which is the fame here exprefled, 

 not growing very high, and reafonably well (lored with flowers. 



5. Ranunculus preecox Rutafolio fiue Coriandrifolio. 

 The early Coriander leafed Crowfoote. 



This Crowfoote hath three or foure very greene leaues, cut and diuided into many 

 1'mall peeces, like vnto the wing of leaues of Rue, or rather like the lower leaues of the 

 Coriander (for they well referable either of them) euery of them (landing vpon a long 

 purplifh ftalke, at the toppe whereof groweth the flower alone, being compofed or 

 made of twelue fmall white leaues, broad pointed, and a little endented at the ends, 

 fomewhat purplifh on the outfide, and white on the infide, fuflained by dtuers fmall 

 greene leaues, which are in flead of a cup or huske : in the middle of the flower are 

 many fmall white threads, tipt with yellow pendents, (landing about a fmall greene 

 head, which after groweth to bee full of feedes like a Strawberry, which knobs giue 

 fmall blackilh feede : the roote is white and fibrous. 



6. Ranunculus Thaliflrifolio maior. The great colombine leafed Crowfoot. 



The lower leaues of this Crowfoote haue long llalkes, and are very like vnto the 

 fmaller leaues of Colombines, or the great Spanifh Thaliclrum^ which hath his leaues 

 very like vnto a Colombine, foure or fiue rifing from the roote : the (lalke rifeth a- 

 bout a foote and a halfe high, fomewhat reddifh, befet here and there with the 

 like leaues, at the toppe whereof (land diuers fmall white flowers, made of fiue 

 leaues a peece, with fome pale white threads in the middle : the feede is round 

 and reddifh, contained in fmall huskes or homes: the roote is made of a bufh or 

 tutt of white firings. 



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