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ocher, yet very many abiding conftant double as ac the firft • and therefore 
let this bricfe recitall be fufficienc in (lead of a particular of all the colours. 
Anemone Cbalcedonic a maxim* •utrficolor. 
The great double Windflower of Conftantinople. 
This great Anemone of Conftantinoplehath broader and greener lcaues then any 
of the former Undes, andnotfomachdtuidedorcutin at the edges, amongwhich 
rifevponeor cwoftalkes, (feldome more from one roote)hauing fome leaucs about 
the middle of the ftalke, as other Anemones haue, and bearing at the toppes of the 
ftalkes one large flower a peece, very double, whofe outermoft leaues being broadeft, 
are greenilh at the firft, but afterwards red, hauing foraetimes fome greene abiding ftill 
in the leaues, and the red (taped through it: the other leaues which are within thefe 
are fmaller, and of a perfect red colour s the innermoft being fmalleft, are of the fame 
red colour, but turned fomewhat inward , hauing no thrummes or threads in the mid- 
dle, as the former haue, and bearing no feede : the roote is blackiftr on the outfide, and 
white within, thicke and tuberousas the other kindes, but thicker fet and clofe toge- 
ther, not (hooting any long (lender rootes as others doc. Some Gentlewomen call this 
Anemone, The Spanifli Marigold. 
Anemone cbxlcedonica altera pne Pano maior pore duplici. 
The great double Orengc tawncy Anemone. 
This other great Anemone of Conftantinople hath his large leaucs fo like vnto 
the lad, that one can hardly diflinguifh them afundcr 5 the ftalke hath alfofuch like 
leaues fet vpon it, bearing at thcroppe a fj ire large flower , confiftingof many leaues 
fet in two or threerowesat the moil, but not (o thicke or doubleas the laft,yct feeming 
to be but one thicke roweofmany fmall and long leaues, of an excellent red orcrim- 
fon colour, wherein fome yellow is mixed, which maketh that colour is called an O-’ 
rengetawney 5 thebottomes of the leaues are red, compafted withawhitifti circle, 
the thrummie head in the middle being befet with many darke blackilh threads : the 
roote is like the former- 
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Anemone Snperitica fine Cj fir if si*. The double Anemone of Cyprus. 
This Anemone (which the Dutchmen call Superitz, and as t haue becne enformed, 
came from theftlc of Cyprus) hath leaucs very like the lad double Anemone, but not 
altogether fo large: the flower coi.fifteth of fmaller leaues, of colour very nearevnto 
the laft double Orcnge coloured Anemone, but morethicke of leaues , and as double 
as the firft, although not fo great a flower, without any head in the middle , or thrums 
about it as is in the laft, and differeth not in the roote from cither of them both. 
Somewhat like vnto this kinde, or as it were betweene this and the firft kinde of 
thefe great double Anemones, we haue diuers other forts, bearing flowers very thicke 
and double ; fome of them being white, or whiti(h,or purple, deeper or paler, and fome 
of a reddi(h colour tendingto Scarlet or a Carnation colour, and fome alfo of a blufli 
or flefli colour, and diuers other colours, andaliofthem continue conftant in their 
colours. 
Anemone Caonmeni Maringi Jiae Perfica. The double Pcrfian Anemone, 
This rare Anemone, which is (aid to come out of Pcrfia to Conftantinople, and 
from thence to vs, is in leafe and roote very like vnto the former double Anemones 
before deferibedjonely the flower hereof is rather like vnto the fecond great double 
O rengc coloured Anemone, vfually call ed Pano maior floreplcno, being corupofed of 
three rowes of leaues, the outtermoftrowe confiding of ten or twelue larger leaues, 
and thofe more inward lefferand more in number, but all of them variably mixed 
with white, red, and yellow, hauing thebottomes of the leaues white : but infteadof 
a middle head with thrums about it, as the other hath, this hath a few narrow leaues, 
of a deepe yellow colour in the middle of the flower, (landing vpright, 
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