T he (garden of plea) ant Flowers* 
and that to good effect. It is vfed alfo for women in long and hard trauels 
where there is danger, to accelerate the birth, either the roote or the lcafe 
being applyed. Butfor any amorous effedfs, I hold it meerc fabulous. 
Chaf.XXV. 
Anemone. Windeflowerand his kindes. 
T He next tuberous rooted plants that are to follow (of right in my opinion) are 
the Anemones or Windeflowtrs , and although fome tuberous rooted plants, 
that is, the Afphodils, SpiderwortSjand Flowerdcluces haue beene before in- 
ferred, it was , both becaufe they were in name or forme of flowers futableto them 
whom they were ioyned vnto, and alfo that they fhould not be feuered and entreated 
efin two feuerall places : the reft are nowto follow , at the leaft fo many of them as 
be beautifull flowers, fit to furnifti a Florifts Garden, for natures delightfome varieties 
and excellencies. T o diftinguilh the Family of Anemones I may, that is, into the wilde 
kindes, and into the tame or mannured, as they are called , and both of themnourfed 
vp in Gardens; and of them into thofe that haue broader leaues, and into thofc that 
hauethinner or more iagged leaues : and of each ofthem, into thofc that beare fingle 
flowers, and thofe that beare double flowers. Buttodefcribc the infinite (as I may fo 
fay) variety of the colours of the flowers, and to giuetoeach histruediftin&ion and 
denomination, Hie labor, hoe open eft, it farre palfcth my ability I confefTc , and I thinke 
would graucll the belt experienced this day in Europe (and the likellaid concerning; 
T ulipas, it being as contingent to this plant, as is before faid of the Tulipa, to be with- 
out endinyecldingvarieties:)forwhocanfecall thevarieties that haue fprung from 
the fowing ofthe feede in all places, feeing the variety of colours rifen from thence, is 
according to the variety ofay res & g toun ds wherein they are fo wne, skill alfo helping 
nature in ordering them aright. Forthefeedeof one and the fame plantfoWr.ein di- 
uers ayres and grounds, doe produce that variety of colours that is much differing one 
from another ; who then can difplay all the mixtures of colours in them , to fet them 
do wne in fo fmall a roorae as this Book < Y et as I haue done (in the former part of this 
Treatife) my good will, toexprefTe as many of eachkinde haue cometo my know- 
ledge, fo if I endeauour the like in this, I hope the courteous wil accept it,and hold me 
excufed for the reft: otherwife,ifI were or could bcabfolute,I fliould take from my felf 
and others the hope of future augmentation, or addition of any new, which neuer will 
be wanting.To begin therefore with the wilde kinds (as they are fo accounted) I fliall 
firftentreate ofthe Pnlfatillas or Pafque flowers, which are certainly kindes of wilde 
Anemone sftsoth in leafe and flower, as may well be difeerned by them that are Judici- 
ous (although fome learned men hauenotfo thought, as appeareth by their writings) 
the rootes of them making one fpeciall note of difference, from the other forts of 
wilde Anemones. 
i. ValfitlUi Anglico purpurea. The purple Pafque flower. 
ThePafque or Paffe flower which is of our owne Country, hath many leaues lying 
on the ground, fomewhat rough or hairie, hard in feeling, and finely cut into many 
lmallleaues,ofadarkegrecnecolour,almoftlikethe leaues of Carrets, but finer and 
fmaller, from among which rife vp naked ftalkes, rough or hairie alfo, fet aboutthc 
middle thereof with fome fmall diuided leaues compaffing them, and riling aboue 
thefe leaues about a fpanne, bearing euery one of them one pendulous flower, made of 
fix leaues, ofa fine Violet purple colour, but fomewhat deepewithall, in the middle 
whereof ftand many yellow threcds, fet about a middle purple pointell : after the 
flower is paft, there commethvp in the ftead thereof a bufliie head of long feedes, 
which are fmall and hoarie, hauingat the end of euery one a fmall haire, which is gray 
like wife: the roote is fmall and long, growing downewards into the ground, with a 
tuft of haire at the head thereof, and not lying or running vnder the vpper cruft there- 
of, as the other wilde Anemones doe. 
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