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C L be (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 
The Names. 
The name ^iatirrhisum is vfually giuen to this plant, although it fully 
agrecth not eyther with the defcription of Diofcorides, or Thcophraftus : 
It hath alfo diners other names in Latine, as Oronteum , Ctnis cerebrum Os 
Leonis, Leo herbu,&e. In Englifh Calucsfnout, from the formeofthefeede 
veffclSj and Snapdragon, or Lyons mouth, from the forme of the flowers. 
TheVertues. 
They are feldome or Better vfcd in Phyficke by any in our dayes. 
Chap. XLV. 
Chimxnerium flore delphin). The Willowc flower. 
T His plant rifeth rp with many ftrong, woddy, round, brownilh great ftalkes, 
three or foure foote high, bcfet here and there without order, with one broad 
and long whitilh greene leafe at aioynt,fomewhat like vnto a LyfmschL , or 
Willow herbe, as alfo vnto a Peach leafe, but larger and longer : at the toppc of the 
branches (land many flowers oneaboue another, of a pale reddifh purple colour, 
confifting of flue leaucs, fprcad open with an heelc or fpurrebehinde them, with many 
yellow threads in the middle, much larger then any flower of the Larkes fpurres, and 
froellingfomewhatfweete withall ; it beareth a fhewof long pods with feede , but I 
could neuer obferue the feede : the rootes are like the rootes of Lyfimochit, or the ordi- 
nary yellow Loofe-ftrife, or Willowe herbe, but greater : running and fpreading vn- 
der ground, and (hooting vpinmany places, whereby it filleth a ground that it likes 
quickly : the ftalkes dye do wne euery yeare , and fpringagaine in many places farre 
afunder. 
. ' The Place. 
Wee haue not knov/ne where this Willowe flower groweth naturally, 
but we haue it (landing in an out corner of our Gardens, to fill vp the num- 
ber of delightfull flowers. 
The Time. 
It flowreth not vntill May, and abideth a long while flowring. 
The Names. 
It may fceine to diuers,that this is that plant that Dodonsus called Pfe»- 
iUyftmschmm purpuream mimes , and Lobel feemeth by the nameof Delphi- 
nium buccinam toaime at this plant, but withall calleth it cham.enerium 
Gejneri , and giueth the fame figure that Dodonatus hath for his ffeudolyfi- 
michium: But that is one kinde of plant (which hath fmaller and (horter 
ftalkes, and very narrow long leaues , whofe flowers (land vpon long (len- 
dercods, full of downe, with reddifh feede, like vnto the Lyfimacbu flli- 
quofs filucslru, and rootes that abide many yeares, but creepe not)and this 
is another, much greater, whofe true figure is not extant in any Authorthar 
Iknow. Itis vfually called Cham-enertum flore delphini)-, but the name of 
Delphinium butcinum in my minde may notfoconueniently be applyed vn- 
to it. It is called in Englifh, The Willowe flower, for thelikenefleof the 
leaues, and thebeauty and rcfpedfofthe flowers. 
