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that the roots may be three inches under ground; fome fet their 
Anemones and Ranunculus in the end of September, and affoon as they 
come up, fhelter them with fupported Mats , which mutt (for an hour 
every fair day) be taken off to airthebed, and prevent moildinefs; 
for if they betiot carefully defended from hard Frofts and Snows, it 
will foon kill chem all, therefore to avoid fuch trouble and danger of: 
Jofs, I preferr late fetting, as needing no attendance, or ever failing 
toanfwer my expectation; 
In March and April, when they are comeup ; and begin torife to 
flower, they muft be often well watered, forthen they require moi- 
fture, too much of which in the Winter deftroys them , fome years 
fome of their roots will lye in the ground, and not {pring at all, 
which take up and dry with thereft , and they will bear flowers ne- 
verthelefs the year following, ; 
Unto thefe nobler kinds of Ranunculus, or Crow-foot, fome others 
*of our old acquaintance may be joyned; they are now common 
muft confefs, yet bear fair flowers, and were they as ftrange and nice — 
as fome of the former, they would be more efteemed , thefe being 
too familiar to be much affeéted, and kept with fo little care, that 
few care for them, and therefore ic will {uffice onely toname them, 
and fo conclude this Chapter, | 
Ranunculus Anglicis. 
ZB Englifh Crow-foot with a grumous reot, commonly called Che- 
lidonium minus, or the leffer Pile-wort, differeth not atall from 
that common weed which grows in every hedge, with fingle thinning 
‘ellow flowers, but onely that the flowers of this are thick and 
_ double; this Plant Ifound wild many years fince,; and fetting it in 
my Garden, it much increafed, fo that I gave many roots thereof to 
divers about London and other places; andam confident that moft of 
the Plants that are in England ; came from that one root which I 
found , for I could ‘never hear of any other that found it wild in 
any place, 
Ranunculus albus flore pleno. 
“Ete double white ah he hath large leaves cut into fine divifions; 
| and notehed abont the edges, of a frefh green colour on the up- 
per fide, and pale underneath, full of ribs and veins ; the ftalk about 
half ayard high, divided into feveral branches, bearing many {mall 
but very double fine white flowers; theroot is compofedof many 
thick, long whitifh ftrings, faftened to a fomething big head, 
Caltha Paluftris flore pleno. 
Te double Marfh-Marigold is no, other than that we commonly : 
A call the water- Boot,fo plentiful in ie erounds,onely the aewes 
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