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ing at the top thereof one {mall double fower, of a violet purple co- 
Jour; at which time the leaves {pring up foulded at the firft, but af- 
ter opening themfelves, are divided at the edges in three parts, ftand- 
ing on feveral long foot-ftalks, as high as the flowers , which leaves 
will continue untill new come again;{o that commonly the flowers rife 
up among theold leaves, theroot is compofed of marly long black 
_ ftrings, taftened to a head, from whence the leaves and flowers 
fpring, ‘ | 
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Hepatica nobilis flore pleno caruleo. 
T He double blew Hepatica is in all thingslike the former, but the 
“colour of the flowers, which in this are of light watchet blew 
GOI, ou) 3 : 
Hepatica nobilis flore pleno albo. 
T% double white Hepatica hath fmaller and frefher green leaves 
4 than either of the former, the flowers {now-white, and as 
thick and double, more rare to be found, and therefore much 
more efteemed, es 
FHepatica nobilis flore pleno rubro. 
T* double red Hepaticais in‘all things like the laft , but onely the. 
colour of the flowers, which are as thick and double as any of 
the former , and of a fine pleafant pale red, inclining to Peach- 
Thefe are the moft valuable diverfities that hitherto have come 
to our knowledge; there are others’ that bear fingle flowers of the 
fame colours of the double ones, but little efteemed by any good 
Florifis ; yet by fome are preferved , chiefly for that they bear feeds 
from whence varieties are expected, but I have not heard or feen any 
that have been fo raifed that areconfiderable. It is reported that the 
double white, and the double red have been raifed from the feeds of the 
fingle kinds ; I confefs I have not feen either of them, and there- 
fore can give no further affurance than the credit of a good Floriff 
the reporter. 
The double kinds flower about the middle of March, and the 
fingle ones a fortnight fooner ; they muft be planted like the Auri- 
cula, in rich well-dunged ground , where they will thrive and bear 
plentifully, and may be increafed by patting the roots after they are 
grown into feveral heads. | 
Geranium. 
Ranes billis of divers forts, but few of them of any efteem, the 
~chielelt of them are, the knobbed Cranes-bell, that hath a pre 
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