220 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



leaues, with fome threads in the middle : the roote is compofed of many thicke, long, 

 round white firings. 



There is another of this kinde that beareth flowers with two rowes of leaues, as if it 

 were double, differing in nothing elfe. 



12. Ranunculus Lujitanicus Autumnalis. The Portugall Autumne Crowfoot. 



This Autumne Crowfoote hath diuers broad round leaues lying on the ground, fet 

 vpon fhort foote-ftalkes, of a faire greene colour aboue, and grayifh vnderneath, fnipt 

 all about the edges, hauing many veines in them, and fometimes fwelling as with bli- 

 fters or bladders on them ; from among which rife vp two or three (lender and hairy 

 ftalkes, bearing but one fmall yellow flower a peece, confifting of flue and fometimes 

 of fix leaues, and fometimes of feuen or eight, hauing a few threads in the middle, fet 

 about a fmall greene head, like vnto many of the former Crowfeete, which bringeth 

 fmall blacke feede : the roote is made of many thicke fhort white firings, which f eeme 

 to be grumous or kernelly rootes, but that they are fomewhat fmaller, and longer then 

 any other of that kinde. 



13. Ranunculus Creticus latifolius. The broad leafed Candy Crowfoot. 



This Crowfoote of Candy, hath the greateft and broadeft leaues of all the forts of 

 Crowfeete, being almoft round, and without any great diuifions, but onely a few 

 notches about the edges here and there, as large or larger fometimes then the palme 

 of a mans hand ; among which rifeth vp the flalke, not very high when it doth firfl 

 flower, but afterwards, as the other flowers doe open themfelues, the ftalke groweth 

 to be a foote and a halfe high, or thereabouts, hauing fome leaues on it, deeply cut in 

 or diuided, and bearing many faire yellow flowers, confifting of fiue leaues a peece, 

 being fomewhat whitifh in the middle, when the flower hath flood blowne a little 

 time : the roote is compofed of a number of fmall kernelly knobs, or long graines, fet 

 thicke together. This flowreth very early, being vfually in flower before the end of 

 March, and oftentimes about the middle thereof. 



14. Ranunculus Creticus albus. The white Candy Crowfoote. 



The leaues of this Crowfoote are very like vnto the leaues of the red Crowfoote 

 of Tripoli or Afia, hereafter fet downe, being fomewhat broad and indented about 

 the edges, fome of the leaues being alfo cut in or gafhed, thereby making it as it were 

 three diuifions, of a pale greene colour, with many white fpots in them : the ftalke ri- 

 feth vp a foote high, with fome leaues on it, more diuided then the lower, and diuided 

 at the toppe into two and fometimes into three branches, each of them bearing a faire 

 fnow white flower, fomewhat large, included at the firft in a brownifh huske or cup of 

 leaues, which afterwards ftand vnder the flowers, confifting of fiue white large round 

 pointed leaues, in the middle whereof is fet many blackifh purple thrums, comparing 

 a fmall long greene head, compofed of many fcales or chaffie whitifh huskes, when 

 they are ripe, which are the feede, but vnprofitable in all that euer I could obferue : 

 the rootes are many fmall graines or kernels, fet together as in the former, and much 

 about the fame colour, that is, of a darke or duskie grayifh colour, but much fmaller. 

 lbapurpums There is another of this kinde, whofe flowers haue purple edges, and fometimes 

 fome veines of the fame purple in the leaues of the flowers, not differing in any other 

 thing from the former. 

 Alba arts m- And another, whofe edges of the flowers are of a bright red colour. 



15. Ranunculus Creticus Jiore argenteo. The Argentine, or cloth of filuer Crowfoot. 



The greene leaues of this Crowfoote are as fmall and thinne, cut in or diuided on 

 the edges, as the laft two forts ; the ftalke rifeth vp fomewhat higher, and diuided into 

 fome branches, bearing at the toppe of euery of them one flower, fomewhat fmaller 

 then the former, compofed of fix, feuen, and fometimes of eight fmall round pointed 



leaues, 



