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The (jar den of plea) ant Flowers. 
rie, and the other parts neere thereunto ; the Idler in the lower Gcriruny, 
or Low Countries, as we callthem. 
The Time. 
Thefe are moll truely to bee reckoned Vernali plants, forthat they rife 
not out of the ground vntill the Spring bee come in, and are gone likewife 
before it be part, remaining vnder ground all the reft of theyeare, yetthe 
lefler abideth longer abouc ground then the greater. 
TheNames. 
Concerning the former of thefe, there is acontrouerfie among diuers, 
whether it ftiould be Thefium of Theophraftus, or Brtphium of Galen, but 
here is no fit place tofrauerfethofe opinions. Some would haue it to bee 
CtrydalisjAa forne referre it to Plinie his Caputs Chcledtni a. for the likenefle 
it hath both with Fumeterie and Celandine. It is generally called of all 
moderne Writers, RadisCaut, and we in Englifh thereafter, Hollow roote. 
The lefter for the firmeneffe of his round roote, is vfuall v called. Caputs fa- 
bacea radice, and the Dutch men thereafter , ffiOOnfeetJjS I^OlllBOltt lUwe of 
the likeneffe with the former, doe callitthelcffc Hollow roote. 
TheVertues. 
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Some by thebitterneffc doe conie&ure (for little proofe hath beene had 
thereof, but in outward cafes) that it clenfctb, purgeth,and dryeth withall. 
Chap. XLIX. 
Delphinium. Larkcs heeles. 
O F Larkes heeles there are two principali kindes,the wilde kinde, and the tame 
or garden; thewildekindcisof two forts, one which is with vs nourfedvp 
chiefly in gardens, andisthegreateft ; the other which is fmaller and lower, 
often found in our plowed landes^md elfewhere : of the former of thefe wilde forts, 
therearedoubleas wellas Angle : and of thetameor morevpright, doublealfoand 
Angle: and of each of diuers colours,as (hall be fetdownc. 
1. Delphinium maius Jiue vulgare. The ordinary Larkes heeles. 
The common Larkes heele fpreadeth with many branches much more ground 
then the other, rarher leaning or bending downe to the ground, then (landing 
vpright, whereon are fet many (mail long greene leaucs,' finely cur, almoft like Fennell 
leaues : the branches end in a long (pike of hollow flowers, with a long fpurre be- 
hinde them, Very like vnto the flowers of the Hollow roote laft deferibed, and are of 
diuers feuerall colours, as of a blewifh purple colour, or white, or alb colour or redha- 
ler or deeper, as alfo party coloured of two colours in a flower : afterthe flowers are 
pad, (which in this kinde abide longer then in the other) there come long round cods, 
containing very blacke feede : the root is hard after it groweth vp to fecde,fpreading 
both abroad and deepe, and perifheth euery yeare, vfually railing it felfe from it own 
fowing, as well as from the feede fowen in thefpring time. 
2. Delphinium vulgare flore plent. Double common Larkes heeles. 
Of this vulgar kinde there is fomc difference in the flower,although in nothing elfc : 
the flow us ftar.d many vpon a ftalke like the former, but euery one of themare asif 
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