Chap. XV. FLORA 
CHAP. xy;3 > *y silach aren 
Peonia: 
MRO, He Peonie is of two forts, Male and Female : The Male 
VER! ROARS. is to be known from all the reft, in that the leaves are 
(Aj exp conftantly whole without any divifion, and the roors 
& A@aee arc long and round; of this there is but one fort, and 
See chat preferved more for its Phyfical properties than for 
the beauty of the flowers: the Female is of many forts, fome beating 
fingle, and others. double flowers 5 the leaves of them all are cut in 
and divided on the edges more or lefs, and the roots are more tube- 
rous, growing in clogs, like thofe of the Afphodill, with mary round 
pieces faftened to the head, with fmaller ftrings, There are four forts 
char beap fines ower ici ars tag Males kin! web. peel re 
fingle flowers, the common Female with fmaller and darker purplith 
fingle red flowers, the blu(h with large blath flowers, and the ingle 
Piony of Conftantinople, whofe flowers are larger than thofe of the 
Male kind,.and of a deeper red colour, without any. fhew of purple ; 
thefe are of mall efteem, yet the two laft for variety may be admit- 
ted ; thofe that bear double flowers are beft worthy to be regarded, 
the which we will particularly defcribe, and firft begin with that 
beft known, - 
Paonia famina vulgaris flare pleno rubro. 
Ee double red Peonie hath many talks; and ftore of leaves divi: 
ded or cut in at the edges, of a dark green colour, hea SF 
grow on the tops of the ftalks, which are very large, thick, and 
double, of a fulldeep red colour, and feldome continuing above eight 
days before they fhed their leaves ; the roots are many Jong clogs 
faftened.to the head or main root, with {maller Rrings; this ito 
mon and well known, tharit needech no defcription, 
Peeonia foemina flore pleno purpureo. 
ie He double purple Peony differeth from the laft in that ic is fmal. 
ler in all the parts thereof, and the leaves ofa whitef green co- 
Jour ; the flowers are double, confifting of fome broad, and many. 
riatrow leaves, of a fine bright thining purple colour, which fall away 
like thofe of the former, ‘ 
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