The Garden of plctifnnt Flowers. 231 



CHAP. XXXI. 



Suniculu gtttttita maior. Spotted Sanicle. 



HAuing long debated with my felfe, where to place this & the other plants that 

 follow in the two next Chapters, I haue thought it not amifle for this worke 

 to fet them downe here, both before the Scares cares, which are kindcs of 

 Sanicle, as the belt Authors doe hold, and after the Cranes bils, both for fome quali- 

 ties fomewhat refembling them, and for fome affinity of the flowers with the former. 



The ("potted Sanicle hath many fmall round leaues, bluntly endented about the 

 edges, fomewhat like vnto the leaues of our white Saxifrage, of a full greene colour 

 aboue, and vvhitilh hairy, and fomewhat reddifh withall vnderneath : the Italkes arc 

 fet here and there with the like leaues, riling a foote and a halfe high or more, very 

 much diuided at the toppe into fundry fmall branches, bearing many very fmall white 

 flowers, confuting of fiue fmall leaues, wherein are many fmall red fpots to be fecne, 

 as fmall as pins points, of a pretty fweete fent, almoft like Hawthorne flowers, in the 

 middle whereof are many fmall threads comparting a head, which when it is ripe con- 

 taineth fmall blacke feede : the roote is fcaly, or couered with a chaffie matter, hauing 

 many fmall white fibres vnderneath, whereby it is fattened in the ground. 



There is another of this kinde, like both in roote, leafe, and flower to the former, Minor n<m gm- 

 the onely difference is, that this is letter then the former, and hath no fpots in the'"'" 1 

 flower, as the other hath. 



We haue alfo another fmaller kinde then the lalt, both in leafe and flower, the leaues Minm guttata. 

 whereof are fmaller, but rounder, and more finely fnipt or indented about the edges, 

 like the teeth of a fine fawe : the Italke is little aboue a fpan high, hauing many fmall 

 white flowers fpotted as the firft, but with fewer fpots. 



The Place. 



Thefe growe in the fhadowie Woods of the Alpes, in diuers places, and 

 with vs they more delight in the fliade then the funne. 



The Time. 



All thefe Sanicles doe flower in May, and continue flowring vntill lune, 

 and the feede foone ripeneth after : the rootes abide all the Winter, with 

 fome leaues on them, fpringing a frefh in the beginning of the yeare. 



The Names. 



The former two are called by Clufius Sanicula montana, and by others 

 Sanic u la guttata : by Lobel Geum Alpinum. The third or laft hath been fent 

 vs vnder the name of Sanicula montana altera minor. 



The Vertues. 



The name impofed on thefe plants doe certainly aflure vs of their ver- 

 tues, from the firft founders, that they are great healers, and from their 

 tafte, that they are great binders. 



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