The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Names. 



This plant, by reafon of the likenclTe of leaues with Soldanella, as was 

 before faid, is called by many Soldanella, but yet is no Bindweedc ; and 

 therefore I rather call it in Engliih ;i Mountaine Soldanella, then as Gerrard 

 doth, Mountaine Biiulvveede. It is likewife called by fomc, Lunaria minor 

 cecrulea, The letfer blew Lunary or Moon wort, and fo I would rather haue 

 it called. 



The Vertues. 



They that impofed the name of Lunaria vpon this plant, fceme to rcferre 

 it to the wound or confolidating herbes, but becaufe I haue no further re- 

 lation or experience, I can fay no more thereof vntill tryall hath taught it. 

 Some alfo from the name Soldanella, which is giuen it, becaufe of the like- 

 nefle of the leaues, haue vfed it to help the Propfie, for which the Sea plant 

 is thought to be effecluall. 



CHAP. XXXI 1 1 1. 



Auricula Vrji. Beares eares. 



THere are fo many fundry and feuerall forts of Beares eares, the variety confi- 

 ding as well in the differing colours of the flowers, as the forme and colour 

 of the leaues, that I fliall not comprehend and fet downe vnto you all the di- 

 uerlities by many, that are rifen vp to thofe that haue beene induftrious in the fow- 

 ing of the feedes of the feuerall forts of them ; yet if you accept of thefe that I doe 

 here offer vnto you, I fhall giue you the knowledge of others, as time, occafion, and 

 the view of them fhall enable me. And becaufe they are without all queftion kinds of 

 Cowflips, I haue fet them downe before them in the firft place, as being of more beau- 

 tie and greater refpect, or at the leafl of more rarity vnto vs. To difpofe them therefore 

 into order, I lhall ranke them vnder three principall colours, that is to fay, Red or Pur- 

 ple, White, and Yellow, and fhew you the varieties of each of them (for fo many as 

 are come to my knowledge) apart by themfelues, and not promifcuoufly as many o- 

 thers haue done. 



I. Auricula Vrji Jiore purpureo. Purple Beares eare, or The Murrey Cowflip. 



This purple Beares eare or Cowflip hath many grecne leaues, fomewhat long and 

 fmooth, narrow trom the bottome of the leafe to the middle, and broad from thence 

 to the end, being round pointed, and fomewhat fnipt or endented about the edges ; in 

 the middle of thefe leaues, and fometimes at the fides alfo, doe fpring round greene 

 rtalkes foure or fiue fingers high, bearing at the top many flowers, the buds whereof, 

 before they are blowne, are of a very deepe purple colour, and being open, are of a 

 bright, but deepe purple, vfually called a Murrey colour, confifting of fiue leaues a 

 peece, cut in at the end as it were into two, with a whitifh ring or circle at the bottome 

 of each flower, Handing in fmall greene cups, wherein after the flowers are fallen, are 

 contained very fmall heads, not rifing to the height of the cups, bearing a fmall pricke 

 or pointell at the toppe of them, wherein is little blackifh feede : the roote hath many 

 whitifh firings fattened to the maine long roote, which is very like vnto a Primrofe 

 or Cowflip roote, as it is in all other parts befides. 



2. Auricula Vrji purpurea absyue orbe. The murrey Cowflip without eyes. 



There is another of this kinde, whofe leafe is fomewhat lefle, as the flower is alfo, 



but 



