The Cjarden of plea) ant Flowers. 
kinde, that is, white, purplifh,reddifh, and a dun or darke ouerworne purpiiih colour. 
Thefe double flowers doe likewife turne into pods,bearing feede, continuing his kind, 
and not varying into the former. 
4. Aquilegia Rofe*. Rofe Colombincs. 
The leaues and other parts of this kinde of Colombine, differ little or nothing 
from the f ormer, the diuerfitie confifteth likewife in the flowers, which although they 
ftand in the fame manner feuerally vpon their fmall flalkes, fomewhat more fparinglv 
then the former doe, yet they haue no hceles or homes, ey ther inward or outward, or 
very fcldome,but ftand fometimes but with eight or tenne fmooth fmall plainc leaues, 
fet in order one by one in a compafle, in a double rowe,and fometimes with foureor 
fiuerowesof them, euery one diredtly before the other, like vnto a fmall thick double 
Rofelayd open, or a fpread Marigold : yet fometimes it happencth,that fomc of thefe 
flowers will haue two orthree of the firft rowes of leaues without any hcele, and the 
reft that are inward with eachof themapceceof afmallhorneatthcm,asthcformer 
haue : the colours of thefe flowers are almoft as variable, and as variably mixed as the 
former double kirides. This likewife giueth feede, preferuing his owne kinde for the 
moil part. , , . 
5 .Aquilegi* degener. Degenerate Colombincs. 
This kinde of Colombine might feeme to fome, to bee but a cafuall degeneration, 
and no true naturali kinde, happening by fome caufe of tranfplanring, orotherwife 
bytheartof man: but I haue not fo found it, in thatitkeepeth,andholdethhisown 
proper forme, which is like vnto the double Rofe Colombine, but that the outermoft 
row of leaues are larger then any of thereftinwardes,andisof agreenifh, orclfeof 
a purpiiih greene colour, and is not altogether fo apt to giue good feed like the former. 
The Place. 
The (ingle kindes haue beene often found in fome of the wooddy moun- 
taines of Germany, as Clufius faith, butthedouble kindes are chiefly che- 
riihcd in gardens. 
The Time. 
They flower not vntill May, and abide not for the moil part when Iune is 
paft, and in the mcane time pcrfedleth their feede. 
The Names. 
Coftaius doth call this plant fet has of Theophraftus, which Gaza tran- 
flateth Defidehum. Dalechampius vpon Athcnxus,callethitD/<j/i#/Aw,or 
louts ps of Theophraftus, who in his fixth Booke and feuenth Chapter rec- 
koneth them both, that is, Dio/anthos and Pathos, to be Summer flowcrs,but 
feuerally. Dodonams Leoherbt^ and Gefncr Lcontefiomium. Fabius Columna 
in his Phytobafanos, vnto whom Clufius giueth the greateft approbation, 
referreth it to the ifePyrum of Diofcorides. All later Writers doe generally 
call it, eyther Aquileta, Aquilina, or Aqmlegia ; and we in Englifh, generally 
(I thinke) through the whole Counrrey, Colombines. Some doe call the 
Aquilegi a rofe 4 , • -Aquilegi* fieSat a, The ftarre Colombine • bccaufe the leaues 
of the flowers doc ftand fo diredtly oneby another, befides the doublenefte, 
that they fomewhat reprefent eyther a Rofe or a Starre s and thereupon they 
giue it the name eyther of aStarre ot Rofe. 
TheVertues. 
Some in Spaine,as Camerarius faith, vfe to eate a pcece of the robtc here- 
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