276 The Garden of pleajant Flowers. 



rie, and the other parts neare thereunto : the lefler in the lower Germany, 

 or Low Countries, as we call them. 



The Time. 



Thefe are moft truely to bee reckoned Vernall plants, for that they rife 

 not out of the ground vntill the Spring bee come in, and are gone likewife 

 before it be paft, remaining vnder ground all the reft of the yeare, yet the 

 lefler abideth longer aboue ground then the greater. 



The Names. 



Concerning the former of thefe, there is a controuerlie among diuers, 

 whether it fhould be Thejium of Theophraftus, or Eriphium of Galen, but 

 here is no fit place to trauerfe thofe opinions. Some would haue it to bee 

 Corydalis, and fome referre it to Plinie his Capnos Cheledonia, for the likeneffe 

 it hath both with Fumeterie and Celandine. It is generally called of all 

 moderne Writers, Radix Caua, and we in Englifh thereafter, Hollow roote. 

 The lefler for the firmnefle of his round roote, is vfually called, Capnos fa- 

 bacea radice, and the Dutch men thereafter, JSCWIlftenS f)oUtUO}tell : we of 

 the likenefle with the former, doe call it the lefle Hollow roote. 



The Vertues. 



Some by the bitternefle doe conieclure (for little proofe hath beene had 

 thereof, but in outward cafes) that it clenfeth, purgeth, and dryeth withall. 



CHAP. XLIX. 

 Delphinium. Larkes heeles. 



OF Larkes heeles there are two principall kindes, the wilde kinde, and the tame 

 or garden ; the wilde kinde is of two forts, one which is with vs nourfed vp 

 chiefly in gardens, and is the greateft ; the other which is fmaller and lower, 

 often found in our plowed landes, and elfewhere : of the former of thefe wilde forts, 

 there are double as well as tingle : and of the tame or more vpright, double alfo and 

 tingle : and of each of diuers colours, as mall be fet downe. 



i. Delphinium maius Jiue -vulgare. The ordinary Larkes heeles. 



The common Larkes heele fpreadeth with many branches much more ground 

 then the other, rather leaning or bending downe to the ground, then ftanding 

 vpright, whereon are fet many fmall long greene leaues, finely cut, almoft like Fennell 

 leaues : the branches end in a long fpike of hollow flowers, with a long fpurre be- 

 hinde them, very like vnto the flowers of the Hollow roote laft defcribed, and are of 

 Partitas. diuers feuerall colours, as of a blewifh purple colour, or white, or am colour or red, pa- 

 ler or deeper, as alfo party coloured of two colours in a flower : after the flowers are 

 paft, (which in this kinde abide longer then in the other) there come long round cods, 

 containing very blacke feede : the root is hard after it groweth vp to feede, fpreading 

 both abroad and deepe, and perimeth euery yeare, vfually railing it felfe from it own 

 fowing, as well as from the feede fowen in the fpring time. 



2. Delphinium vulgare fore plena. Double common Larkes heeles. 



Of this vulgar kinde there is fome difference in the flower, although in nothing elfe : 

 the flowers ftand many vpon a ftalke like the former, but euery one of them are as if 



three 





