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leaucs, with fomc threads inthe middle : the roote is compofed of many thicke, long, 
round white firings. 
There is another of this kinde that beareth flowers with two rowes of leaues, as if it 
were double, differing in nothing elfe. 
n. Ranunculus Lufitanicus /f«f»w»«/w.ThePortugall Autumne Crowfoot. 
This Autumne Crowfoote hath diuers broad round leaues lying on the ground, fet 
vpon fliort foote-ftalkes, of a fairc greene colour aboue, and grayiih vnderncat h, fnipt 
all about the edges, hauing many veines in them , and fometimes fwclling as with bli- 
fters or bladders on them; from among which rife vp two or three (lender and hairy 
ftalkes, bearing but one fmall yellow flower a peece, confiding of fiueand fometimes 
of fix leaues , and fometimes of feuen or eight, hauing a few threads in the middle, fet 
about a fmall greene head, like vnto many of the former Crowfeete , which bringeth 
fmall blacke feede : the roote is made of many thicke (hort white firings, which feeme 
to be grumous or kernelly rootes,but that they are fomewhat fmaller, and longer then 
any other of that kinde. 
1 3 . Ranunculus Creticus latifolius. The broad leafed Candy Crowfoot. 
This Crowfoote of Candy, hath the greateft and broadeft leaues ofall the forts of 
Crowfeete, being almoft round, and without any great diuifions, but onely a few 
notchesabout the edges here and there, as large or larger fometimes then the palme 
ofa mans hand; among which rifethvp the ftalke, not very high when it doth firft 
flower, but afterwards, as the other flowers doe open themiclues , the ftalke groweth 
to be a foote and a halfe high, or thereabouts, hauing fome leaues on it , deeply cut in 
or diuidcd, and bearing many faire yellow flowers, confiding of fiue leaues 3 peece, 
being fomewhat whitifti inthe middle, when the flower hath flood blowne a little 
time : the roote is compofed ofanumberof fmall kernelly knobs, orIonggraines,fet 
thicke together. This flowreth very early , being vfually in flower before the end of 
March, and oftentimes about the middle thereof. 
14. Ranunculus Creticus albus. The white Candy Crowfoote. 
The leaues of this Crowfoote are very like vnto the leaues of the red Crowfoote 
of Tripoli or Afia, hereafter fet downe, being fomewhat broad and indented about 
theedges, fome ofthe leaues being alfocut in or gafhed, thereby making it as itwere 
three diuifions, of a pale greene colour, with many white fpots in them : the ftalke ri- 
feth vp a foote high, with fome leaues on it, more diuided then the lower, and diuided 
at the toppe into two and fometimes into three branches, each of them bearing a fairc 
(now white flower, fomewhat large, included at the firft in a brownifii huskc or cup of 
leaues, which afterwards (land vnder the flowers, confiding of fiue white large round 
pointed leaues, in the middle whereof is fet many blackifti purple thrums, compalfing 
a fmall long greene head, compofed of many feales or chaffie whitifti huskes, when 
theyareripe, whichare thefeede, but vnprofitableinallthateuerlcouldobferue: 
the rootes are many fmall graines or kernels, fet together as in the former, and much 
about the fame colour, that is, ofa darke or duskie grayifh colour, but much fmalleri 
'Mi purpums There is another ofthis kinde, whofe flowers haue purple edges, and fometimes 
prit&vcms. fome veines ofthe fame purple in theleaues of the flowers, not differing in any other 
thing from the former. 
AibatrUru. And another, whofe edges of the flowers are of a bright red colour. 
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iy. Ranunculus Creticus fore argent eolXhz Argentine, or cloth of filuer Crowfoot. 
The greene leaues of this Crowfoote are as fmall and thinne, cut in or diuided on 
theedges, as the laft two forts ; the ftalke rifeth vp fomewhat higher, and diuided into 
fome branches, bearing at the toppe of euery of them one flower , fomewhat fmaller 
then the former, compofed of fix, feuen, and fometimes of eight fmall round pointed 
leaues. 
