'Tbe Lfarden of plea) ant t loiters 
The Names. 
This plant , by rcafon of the likeneffe of leaues with SelitntlU , as wis 
before (aid, is called by many SoUaneBu, but yet is no Bindweede -and 
therefore I rather call it n Englifh a MounraineSoldanella,then as Gcrrard 
doth, Mountaine Bindweede. It is likewife called by fome, Ountru mwor 
ctralen, The Idler blew Lunary or Moon wort, andfo I would rather haue 
it called. 
The Vertues. 
They that impofed the name of Lanttr'u vpon this plant, feeme to referre 
it to the wound or confoiidating herbes , but btcaufe I haue no furthe r re- 
lation or experience , I can fay no more thereof vntill tryall hath taught it. 
Somealfo from the name SoUtnelh, which is giuenit, becaufeof the hke- 
nelTe of the leaues, haue vfed it to help the Dropfie,for which the Sea plant 
is thought to be effedfuall. 
Chap. XXXIIII. 
uricuU V t fi. Beares cares. 
T Here are fo many fundry and feuerall forts of Beares eares , the variety confi- 
ding as well in the differing colours of the flowers, as the forme and colour 
of the leaues , that 1 (hall not comprehend and fet downe vnto you all the di- 
ucrfiticsby many, thatarerifen vptothofethat haue beene induftrious in the flow- 
ing ot thefeedcsot the feuerall forts of them 5yd if youacceptof thefc that I doc 
here offer vnto you, I (hall giue you thcknowledge of others , asrime, occafion, and 
the view of them (hall enable me. And becaufe they are without all queflion kinds of 
Co tvflips, I haue fet them downe before them in the firfl place, as being of more beau- 
tie and greater refpecft,or at the leaf! of more rarity vnto vs.T o difpofe them therefore 
into 01 der, I (hall ranke them vnder three principal! colours, that is to fay, Red or Pur- 
ple, White, and Yellow, and Anew you the varieties of each of them (for fo many as 
are come to my knowledge) apart by thcmfelucs , andnotpromifcuoufly as manyo- 
thers haue done. 
1 . Auricuh r rf flore furfureo. Purple Beares eare, or The Murrey Cowflip. 
This purple Beares eare or Cowflip hath many greene leaues , fomewhat long and 
fmooth, narrow from the bottome of the leafe to the middle, and broad from thence 
to the end, being round pointed, and fomewhat fnipt or endented about the edges ; in 
the middle of thefe leaues, and fometimes at the (ides alfo, doe fpring round greene 
/hikes foure or hue fingers high, bearing at the top many flowers , the buds whereof, 
before they are blowne, are of a very deepe purple colour, and being open , are of a 
bright, but deepc purple, vfually called a Murrey colour, confiftingof flue leaues a 
pcece, cut in at the end as it were into two, with a whitifh ring or circle at the bottome 
of each flowcr,flanding in fmall greene cups, wherein after the flowers are fallen, arc 
contained very fmall heads, not nfing to the height of the cups, bearing a fmall pricke 
or pointed at the toppe of them, wherein is little blackifh feede : the roote hath many 
whitifh firings fattened to the maine long roote, which is very like vnto a Pritnrofe 
or Cowflip roote, as it is in all other parts befides. 
2. Auricuh Vrfi furfurea sbfforbe. The murrey Cowflip without eyes. 
There is another of this kinde,whofe leafe is fomcwhatklTe, astfye floweris alfo, 
but 
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