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( li>e Cjar den of pie a f ant Flowers. 
The Time. 
All of them doe flower early in the yeare , that is, in thebeginning of A- 
prill, about which time moil commonly Eafter doth fall. 
TheNames. 
Their proper names arc giuen to each in their fenerall titles, being all of 
themkindesofvvilde Ancmor.es, aslfaidin thebeginning of the Chapter, 
and fo for the moft part all Authors doe acknowledge them. We call them 
tnEngli(h,bccaufethey floweraboutEafter,Pafquc flower, whichis the 
French name for Eafter, or Enphoniagratia, Pafle flower, which may paffe 
currant, without any further deleant on the name, or elfe M/at ilia, if you 
will, being growne old by cuftome. 
TheVertues. 
The fharpe biting and exulcerating quality of this plant, caufeth it to be 
of little vfe,notwithftanding Ioachimus Camerarius faith in his hortus Me- 
dicus . , that in Boruflia, which is a place in Italy, as I take it, the diftilled wa- 
ter hereof is vfed with good fucceffe, to be giuen to them that are troubled 
with a Tertian Ague ; for he faith that it is medicamentum that is, a 
medicine of force to helpeobftrudtions. 
^Anemone [tluejlris latifolia alta fine tertia Matthioli , 
The w hite wilde broad leafed Windflower. 
This Windflower hath diuers broad greeneleaues, cut into diuifions, and dented 
about, very like vnto a broad leafed Crowfoote, among which rifeth vp a (hike , ha- 
iling fome fuch like cut leaucs in the middle thereof, as growebclow, but fmaller ; on 
the toppe whereof ftandeth one large white flower, confiding of Sue leaues for the 
moft part, with fome yellow threads in the middle, (landing about fuch a greene head 
as is in the fame or garden -Anemones y which growing greater after the flower is paft, 
is compofedofmanyfmallfeedes, wrapped in white wooll, which as foone as they 
are ripe, raifethemfeluesvp from the bottome of the head, and flye away with the 
windr, as the other tame orgarden kindes doe : the roote is made of a number of long 
blacke firings, encreafing very much by running vnderground, and (hooting vp in di- 
uers places. 
Anemone flueilru tenuifelia lutea. The yellow wilde thin leafed Windflower. 
The yellow wilde Anemone rifeth vp with one or two fmall round naked ftalkes, 
bearing about the middle of them, fmall, foft, and tender iagged leaues, deeply cur in 
and indented on the edges about, from aboue which doth grow theftalke, bearing 
fmall yellow flowers, (landing vpon weakc foote- ftalkes, like vnt 5 a fmall Crowfoot, 
with fome threads in the middle : the roote is long and fmall, fomewhat like vnto the 
roote of Pollipodie, creeping vnderthe vpper cruft of the earth : this kinde is lower, 
and fpringeth fomewhat earlier then the other wilde kindes that follow. 
Anemone filueftris tenuifelia alba fimplex. 
Thefingle whitethin leafed wilde Windflower. 
This white wilde Anemone rifeth vp with diuers leaues vpon feuerall long ftalkes } 
which are fomewhat like vnto the former, but that they arefomewhat harder, and not 
folong, nor the diuifions of the leaues fo finely fnipt about the edges, but a link 
broader, and deeper cut in on eueryfide: the flowers hereof are larger and broader 
then the former, white on the infide, and a little purplilh on the outfidc,efpecially at 
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