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ny fmall fibres, abiding many Tears ; and. from the 
round Heads of the Roots which abide all the Win- 
ter, Jhootmg forth afrefh every Spring, both Leaves 
and Stalks. The Leaves' are divers , and large 
Spread, funding on long Footjlalks, every one divi- 
ded into feveral parts, and round/y indented about 
the edges, in color of a blewifh green, and not much 
unlike to the Great Celandine. The Stalks rife up 
fomcthnes two or three feet high , reddifh , and fligbt- 
!y haired, which ufually Spread themSelves into ma- 
ny Branches, bearing one long divided Leaf at the 
lower Joint, above which the flowers grow, every 
one funding on a long Footfialk, conffing of dive 
hollow Leaves , crooked or horned at the ends , turn- 
ing backward, the Flower is open, Jhewing almofl 
like to little Birds ( Jays Gerard) and hollow. The 
variety of their colors are very much , for fonie are 
■wholly white, fome blew, fame of a violet color , others 
of a blujh or flefh color ; fome of a deep Red, fome 
of a pale Red, fome of a dead Fur pie, or dead Mur- 
ry, and fome of mixt colors, as nature is pleafed to 
exert her powers, all which to diflinguijh feverally 
would be to little purpofe, they being fo commonly 
known. The Flowers being pafi, fmall long Cods 
appear , four or jive together, in which are contained 
finall black, and glittering or f lining Seed. 
I many other of the Double forts. Thefe Double Kinds 
do give as good Seed as the Single Kinds, which 
thing is not obferved in many other Flants. 
CbT/imbino 
/fian/fl/d 
cloill/e . 
IV. Double Columbine has a Root like the for- 
mer, and di ffers not in Leaf or manner of growing 
from the Single •, fo that until they come to flower, 
they cannot be d jeerned one from another the only 
or chief difference is, that this bears very thick and 
double flowers, that is, many horned or crooked hol- 
low Leaves fet together, which Leaves are not fo 
large as the Leaves of the flngle flowers. The va- 
ricty of colors in this Double Kind is as great or 
■plentiful, or rather more than in the Single, for oj 
thofe there are party-colored blew, and white, and 
J 'pot ted variably, which are not in the Single Kind, 
as a/Jo a very deep Red, very thick and double, but 
afmaller flower, and lefs plentiful in bearing, than 
Columbine: \d.oubU jloiv 
inirersed. 
V. The third, or Double Inverted Columbine, is 
not to be differenced either in Roots, Stalks , Leaves 
or Seed from the former, but only in the Flowers 
which makes the chief DiftinHion : thefe are as dou- 
ble as the former, but the Heels or Horns of thefe 
are turned Inwards, and Jland out in the middle J of 
the Flowers together : neither is there that plenti- 
ful variety of colors in this Kind, which is in the 
former , there being never above three or four colors 
feen in this fort, to wit. White , Furplijh, Reddifh 
and a Dun, or dark overworn purplijh color. Thefe 
double Flowers being pad away, there come in their 
places fmall long Cods like the former, bearing Seed, 
continuing its kind, and not changing into any of the 
former. 
VI. The fourth, or Role Columbine, in its Roots, 
Stalks, and Leaves differs little or nothing from the 
former Columbines ; the chief difference confffs in 
the Flowers, which although they Jland in the fame 
manner feverally upon their fmall Footflalks, but 
fomewhat more Sparingly than the others do, yet they 
have no heels or horns , either inward or outwarf 
or very feldom ; but Jland fmetimes with eight or 
ten fmall, fmooth, plain Leaves, fet in order one by 
one, as in a Compafs, in a double row, and Sometimes 
with four or five rows of them, eveiy one diretfly 
before the other, like unto a fmall thick double Rofe 
laid open , or 'afpread Marigold : but fmetimes it 
happens, that fome of thefe Flowers will have two 
or three of the jirjt rows of Leaves , without any 
heel ; and the reft which are inwards, each of them 
with apiece of a fmall heel or horn at them, as the 
former have. The colors of thefe Flowers are al- 
mofl as variable, and as Variably mixt, as the for- 
mer double kinds. This alfo gives its Seed, which 
for the mojl part preferves its own kind in perfe- 
U'ton. 
E e VII. The 
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