222 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



leaues, of a whitifh yellow blufh colour on the infide wholly, except fometimes a lit- 

 tle ftript about the edges : but the outfide of euery leafe is finely ftript with crimfon 

 ftripes, very thicke, fomewhat like vnto a Gilloflower : in the middle rifeth vp a fmall 

 blacke head, compaffed about with blackifh blew threads or thrums, which head is as 

 vnfruitfull for feede in our Countrey as the former. This flower hath no fuch greene 

 leaues vnder it, or to enclofe it before it be blowne open as the former : the rootes are 

 in all things like the former. 



6. Ranunculus Afiaticus Jiue Tripo lit anus fare rubro. 

 The fmgle red Crowfoote of Afia or Tripoli. 



The lower leaues of this red Crowfoote are alwayes whole without diuifions, be- 

 ing onely fomewhat deeply indented about the edges, but the other that rife after 

 them are more cut in, fometimes into three, and fometimes into fiue diuifions, and 

 notched alf o about the edges : the ftalke rifeth higher then any of the former, and hath 

 on it two or three fmaller leaues, more cut in and diuided then thofe belowe : at the 

 toppe whereof ftandeth one large flower, made of fiue leaues, euery one being nar- 

 rower at the bottome then at the toppe, and not ftanding clofe and round one to an- 

 other, but with a certaine diftance betweene, of a duskie yellowifh red colour on the 

 outfide, and of a deepe red on the infide, the middle being fet with many thrums of a 

 darke purple colour : the head for feede is long, and fcaly or chaffie, and idle in like 

 manner as the reft : the roote is made of many graines or fmall kernels fet together, 

 and doling at the head, but fpreading it felfe, if it like the ground, vnder the vpper 

 cruft of the earth into many rootes, encreafing from long ftrings, that runne from the 

 middle of the fmall head of graines, as well as at the head it felfe. 



1 7. Ranunculus Ajiaticus Jtore amplo rubro. The large lingle red Crowfoot of Afia. 



There hath come to vs out of Turkic, together with the former, among many other 

 rootes, vnder the fame title, a differing fort of this Crowfoote, whofe leaues weare 

 broader, and much goaler ; the flower alfo larger, and the leaues thereof broader, 

 fometimes eight in a flower, ftanding round and clofe one to another, which maketh 

 the fairer fhew : in all other things it is like the former. 



1 8. Ranunculus Ajiaticus fare rubro vario Jimp lid. 



The red ftript fingle Crowfoote of Afia. 



This party coloured Crowfoote differeth not eyther in roote or leafe from the for- 

 mer, the chiefeft difference is in the flower, which being red, fomewhat like the for- 

 mer, hath yet fome yellow ftripes or veines through euery leafe, fometimes but little, 

 and fometimes fo much, that it feemeth to bee party coloured red and yellow : this 

 fort is very tender ; for we haue twice had it, and yet perifhed with vs. 



19. Ranunculus Ajiaticus fare luteo vario Jimp lid. 

 The yellow ftript lingle Crowfoote of Afia. 



There is little difference in the roote of this Crowfoote from the laft defcribed, but 

 the leaues are much different, being very much diuided, and the flower is large, of a 

 fine pale greenifh yellow colour, confifting of fix and feuen, and fometimes of eight 

 or nine round leaues ; the toppes whereof haue reddilh fpots, and the edges fometimes 

 alfo, with fuch purplilh thrums in the middle that the other haue. None of these for- 

 mer Crowfeete with kernelly rootes, haue euer beene found to haue giuen fo good 

 feed in England, as that being fowne, any of them would fpring vp ; for hereof tryall 

 hath been often made, but all they haue lost their labour, that haue bestowed their 

 paines therein, as farre as I know. 



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