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CHAp, XXVIII, 
Gentiana. 
SS) Eatian is of feveral forts, fome greater, and fome fmal- 
i ABN ex ler, we will make choice of one of each, and leave the 
& a 5 Pe II . i / m ‘ ¥ P) ie $ 
it (= aN eft, as ficrer for a'general hiftory; than this colleétion 
Wg ol of flowers, and firft of that rare medicinable plant 
SAM called 
Gentiana major flore flavo. 
"[ earee Gentian with a yellow flower, from a great ‘thick yellow 
bict er roor, rifeth up, with a long round and pointed head. of 
leaves, clofing each other, which opening lie upon the ground, and 
are long, broad and plaited, like unto thofe of the white Helebor; 
but fofter and more pliable, from among which the ftalk cometh up, 
which is ftiff, round, full of joynts, and above a yard high, with two 
{mall leaves at every joynt compafsing the ftalk, which from the 
middle to the top thereofis adorned with many rundles, or Coro- 
nets of flowers ftanding at every joynt with two green leaves under 
_ them, which are laid open like Stars, ofa yellow colour, with fome 
threds in the middle, which are fucceeded by round heads containing 
feeds like unto thofe of the Fritilaria, 
Gentianella verna. 
Entian of the Spring ,or Gentianella,as it is commonly called, hath 
divers {mall hard green leaves growing in tufts clofe to the 
ground, ribbed and veined like to other Gentians, from among which 
rifech up a fmall fhort ftalk, bearing at the top one fair, large, hollow, 
bell-fafhioned flower, with open brims, ending in five corners, of an 
excellent deep blew colour, with fome white {pots inthe bottome 
on the infide: the roots are {mall pale yellow long ftrings which run 
in the ground, and put forth leaves in divers places, whereby it increa- 
feth fo faft, that it is now growncommon in every ordinary Garden, 
The great Gentian flowereth from Fune to Fuly,and the Gentianella: 
from April to May; the firft increafeth flowly by the root, and it is 
hardly raifed from feeds, in refpect thofe plants that grow in England 
feldome bring any to perfection, andifany plants be gotten up from 
feeds, it will be many years before they come to bear flowers : the 
root muft be planted in September, im rich ground, under a South 
wall, and carefully defended from frofts in the Winter ; the other will 
profper in almoft any foil, fo it be in an open air, ail 
: CHAP, 
