272 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



kinde, that is, white, purplifh, reddifh, and a dun or darke ouerworne purplifh colour. 

 Thefe double flowers doe likewife turne into pods, bearing feede, continuing his kind, 

 and; not varying into the former. 



4. Aquilegia Rofea. Rofe Colombines. 



The leaues and other parts of this kinde of Colombine, differ little or nothing 

 from the former, the diuerlitie confifteth likewife in the flowers, which although they 

 (land in the fame manner feuerally vpon their fmall ftalkes, fomewhat more fparingly 

 then the former doe, yet they haue no heeles or homes, eyther inward or outward, or 

 very feldome, but ftand fometimes but with eight or tenne fmooth fmall plaine leaues, 

 fet in order one by one in a compafle, in a double rowe, and fometimes with foure or 

 fiue rowes of them, euery one direftly before the other, like vnto a fmall thick double 

 Rofe layd open, or a fpread Marigold : yet fometimes it happeneth, that fome of thefe 

 flowers will haue two or three of the firft rowes of leaues without any heele, and the 

 reft that are inward with each of them a peece of a fmall home at them, as the former 

 haue : the colours of thefe flowers are almoft as variable, and as variably mixed as the 

 former double kindes. This likewife giueth feede, preferuing his owne kinde for the 

 moft part. 



5. Aquilegia degener. Degenerate Colombines. 



This kinde of Colombine might feeme to fome, to bee but a cafuall degeneration, 

 and no true naturall kinde, happening by fome caufe of tranfplanting, or otherwife 

 by the art of man : but I haue not fo found it, in that it keepeth, and holdeth his own 

 proper forme, which is like vnto the double Rofe Colombine, but that the outermoft 

 row of leaues are larger then any of the reft inwardes, and is of a greenifh, or elfe of 

 a purplifh greene colour, and is not altogether fo apt to giue good feed like the former. 



The Place. 



The fingle kindes haue beene often found in fome of the wooddy moun- 

 taines of Germany, as Clufius faith, but the double kindes are chiefly che- 

 rifhed in gardens. 



The Time. 



They flower not vntill May, and abide not for the moft part when lune is 

 part, and in the meane time perfefteth their feede. 



The Names. 



Coftaeus doth call this plant Pothos of Theophraftus, which Gaza tran- 

 flateth Dejiderium. Dalechampius vpon Athenaeus, calleth it Diofanthos, or 

 louts flos of Theophraftus, who in his fixth Booke and feuenth Chapter rec- 

 koneth them both, that is, Diofanthos and Pothos, to be Summer flowers, but 

 feuerally. Dodonaeus Leoherba, and Gefner Leontojlomium. Fabius Columna 

 in his Phytobafanos, vnto whom Clufius giueth the greateft approbation, 

 referreth it to the Ifopyrum of Diofcorides. All later Writers doe generally 

 call it, eyther Aquileia, Aquilina, or Aquilegia ; and we in Englifh, generally 

 (I thinke) through the whole Countrey, Colombines. Some doe call the 

 Aquilegia rofea, Aquilegia ftellata, The ftarre Colombine ; becaufe the leaues 

 of the flowers doe ftand fo direclly one by another, befides the doublenefle, 

 that they fomewhat reprefent eyther a Rofe or a Starre, and thereupon they 

 giue it the name eyther of a Starre or Rofe. 



The Vertues. 



Some in Spaine, as Camerarius faith, vfe to eate a peece of the roote here- 

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