Chap. OAV 2 keds O'R A. ; 
like a {mall Cyclamen, bearing many fingle pale purple fowers ; the 
blew Cranes-bill andthe white differ only in the colour of the flow- 
ers ; the blew and white friped Cranes-billis like the two laf, only 
the flowers are variably (potted, ftriped, and parted with white and 
blew ; the purple Crow-foot Cranes-bill hath a great head of flowers; 
which open by degrees, and die at night ; the variable Cranes-bill is 
common, it hath {mall flowers, varied with fmall reddith veins upon 
white ; the [weet Cranes-bill hath flowers of a dark blackith purple 
colour 5 the red Rofe Crames-bil hath flowers likea red Rofe Campi- 
on, thefe fimple flowers are all exactly defcribed by Mr, Par biaon 
they flower in April, May and Fune, and increafe too fat : but we 
have now an other more rare called 
Geranium noéte olens, 
Fo that it (melleth {weet only in the nigh, it hath a great root 
like a Peony, with large jagged leaves, the flowers come forth in 
wly, with {mall and round pointed leaves of a purple colour lifted 
about with yellow, fo as the purple feemeth but as a {pot in the 
middle of every leat , thefe howers ftand on {mooth ftalks eight ot 
tenon ahead, whichin the nightareas fweet, as beautiful in the 
day; the plant is render, and therefore fet ina pot, and governed in 
Winter as the Cardinals flower; ot houfed and keptidry in Winter, 
for any moifture rots the roor, 
CHAP, xxyll. 
| Helleborus.. 
Gsseceny Elebor is of two forts or kinds, that is, black artd 
We) Ga, white, and there are fomeleffer forts, called Heile- 
n PH Corine, that for the beauty of their fowers deferve 
= &9) mention ; we will begin with the black Helebor, 
23 vulgarly called the chriffmas Rofe, but more properly 
Hellebor us niger verus. 
He true black Hellebor, from aroot compofed of divers long brown 
A ftrings, running deep into the ground, and faftened toa big head, 
fpringech up many green leaves, ftanding on big ftiff foot-ftalks, divi- 
ded into eight or mine parts, and nicked about the edges ; the flow- 
erscome forth in Winter, upon fuch fhort fat foot-ftalks, in form 
like unto fingle white Rofes, at firft white, but by long ftanding 
turn to be of a blufh-colour, with apale yellow thrum, and a greet 
head inthe middle , chiefly refpected for the early fowring, which 
is commonly about Chriffmas, and therefore by many ae 
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