The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



like vnto the former, but fmaller: the rootes are many fmall firings, difperfing them- 

 felues in the ground. 



3. Elleborine minor jiore pur pur ante. 

 The fmall or wilde white Ellebor with blufh flowers. 



The leaues of this kinde are like vnto the laft defcribed, but fomewhat narrower : 

 the ftalkes and flowers are alike, but fmaller alfo, and of a pale purplifh or blufh co- 

 lour, which caufeth the difference. 



The Place. 



The firft groweth in very many places of Germany, and in other Coun- 

 tries alfo. It groweth likewife in Lancafhire, neare vpon the border of 

 Yorkefhire, in a wood or place called the Helkes, which is three miles from 

 Ingleborough, the higheft Hill in England, and not farre from Ingleton, as 

 I am enformed by a courteous Gentlewoman, a great louer of thefe de- 

 lights, called Miftris Thomaiin Tunltall, who dwelleth at Bull-banke, 

 neare Hornby Caftle in thofe parts, and who hath often fent mee vp the 

 rootes to London, which haue borne faire flowers in my Garden. The fe- 

 cond groweth in many places of England, and with the fame Gentlewoman 

 alfo before remembred, who fent me one plant of this kinde with the other. 

 The laft I haue not yet knowne to growe in England ; but no doubt many 

 things doe lye hid, and not obferued, which in time may bee difcouered, if 

 our Country Gentlemen and women, and others, in their feuerall places 

 where they dwell, would be more carefull and diligent, and be aduertifed 

 either by themfelues, or by others capable and fit to be imployed, as occa- 

 fion and time might ferue, to finde out fuch plants as growe in any the cir- 

 cuits or limits of their habitations, or in their trauels, as their pleafures or 

 afraires leade them. And becaufe ignorance is the chiefe caufe of negleft 

 of many rare things, which happen to their view at fometimes, which are 

 not to be feene againe peraduenture, or not in many yeares after, I would 

 heartily aduife all men of meanes, to be ftirred vp to bend their mindes, and 

 fpend a little more time and trauell in thefe delights of herbes and flowers, 

 then they haue formerly done, which are not onely harmleffe, but pleafu- 

 rable in their time, and profitable in their vfe. And if any would be better 

 enformed, and certified of fuch things they know not, I would be willing 

 and ready to my beft skill to aduertife them, that mall fend any thing vp to 

 rne where I dwell in London. Thus farre I haue digreffed from the matter 

 in hand, and yet not without fome good vfe I hope, that others may make 

 of it. 



The Time. 



The two firrt flower earlier then the laft, and both the firft about one 

 time, that is, in the end of Aprill, or beginning of May. The laft in the 

 end of May, or in lune. 



The Names. 



The firft is called TLlleborine recentiorum maior, and Calceolus Maria : Of 

 fome thought to be Cofmofandalos, becaufe it is Sandali forma. In Englifli we 

 call it our Ladies Slipper, after the Dutch name. The other two lefler kinds 

 haue their names in their titles : I haue thought it fit to adde the title of fmall 

 white Ellebors vnto thefe, for the forme fake, as is before faid. 



The Vertues. 

 There is no vfe of thefe in Phylicke in our dayes that I know. 



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