Chap. XXVI EL OR A 
: st adage? Radix Cava. 
H ollow-ro0t is 2 Plantas low in growth as reputation, the common 
and ordinary arecaftout of every good Garden; and thefe fol- 
lowing chiefly retained, | 
Radix Cava major flore albo. 
1 He white Hollow-root cometh out of the ground about the end of 
A March, withgreen leaves like thofe of the Celembine , from 
among which , rife up two or three fhort ftalks , naked from the 
bottom to the middle, where the flowers come forth one above ano- 
ther, every flower having a fhort green leaf at the foot thereof, which 
are long and hollow, witha heel behind, like unto the flowers of the 
common Larks {pur, with bigger bellies; and the mouthes not fo 
- open, being wholly of a pure white colour , the root is big and round, 
aid 
and hollow underneath, tos aia oe 
~ Radix Cava major flore carneo. 
“THe blufh-coloured Hollow-root is in all things like the former, but 
that the flowers of this are of alight red, or deep bluth-colour, 
and fometimes the flowers of fome Plants of this kind will be of a 
deep reddifh purple colour, - | ig 
-'Thefekinds of Hollow-root come up in the end of March , flower 
in April, and are under-ground again in May ; the roots lofe the 
fibres , and may be keps out of the ground two or three moneths; 
they are apt to increafe, and will like inany foil, but beft in thae 
‘which is inclining to fand, fo as they ftand not too hot in the Sua; 
5 ao 5 oe “4 oe . 
CHAP, XXVI 
, Hepatica Nobilis. 
oble Liver-wort is of two forts, the one bearing fingle, 
and the other double flowers the firft are now little 
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“abe 
ous, but the double kinds more refpected, and fome 
ab of them accounted very rare, we will begin with 
that beft known, 7 
Hepatica Nobilis lore pleno purpureo. 
411 ¢ donble purple Hepatica cometh up before the leaves, with ma- 
| a fall, a fomething long naked ftalks, each of chem bear- 
ing 
efteemed , and few of them entertained by the curi-. - 
ial 
