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CHAP. xxIV, 
Ranunculus. 
ME tte Crow-foot is of divers kinds, and many of them not 
WAS fic for our purpofe, we will therefore make choice 
wa é of fuch onely as bear the faireft fowers ; and firft be- 
-gin-with fuch as have grumous or kernelly roots, 
wm which may be taken upand kept dry, as wellas thofe 
of Anemones; and then conclude with fome others of another 
nature, 
Ranunculus Creticus albus. 
oy He double white Ranunculus, or Crow-foot of Candy, cometh up 
with leaves fomething broad; and indented about the edges, 
fome of them more cutand divided than others, of a pale green co- 
lour full of white {pots ; the ftalk rifeth about a foot high, with 
fome fmaller, and more divided leaves thereon; parted at the 
top into two or three branches, each bearing a fair white flower ; the 
root is grumous or kernelly , having many grains bigger than thofe — 
of Wheat faftened to one head, of a fad brewn colour on the outer fide; 
of this kind there are three other forts that bear fingle flowers, one all 
white, another with purple, anda third, with bright red edges. 
Ranunculus Creticus flore argenteo. 
ud He Cloth of filver Crow-foot of Candy hath {maller leaves than 
the laft , the ftalk bigger, and branched, bearing at the ends 
thereof fingle flowers , leffer than thofe of the former, containing 
feven or eight round-pointed leaves, of apale yellowith bluth colour 
on the infides, a little ftriped , but more on the oucfide with crimfons 
the root is grumouslike that of the former, 
Ranunculus Afiaticus flore pleno luteo. 
a He double yeHow Ranunculus of Afia cometh up with many green 
i leaves, cut and divided like thofe of a Carret, from whence 
rife many {mall upright ftalks, each bearing at the top one fmall 
double flower, of a thinning yellow colour; the root compofed of 
many thick fat grains, faftened toa head of a whitecolour, There 
is another of this kind that hath bigger green leaves, and larger double 
flowers, of a more pale yellow colour, and wehave a third onely 
differing in that the flowers are fingle, 
RAnun- 
