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Leaves not winged , more divided than the former 
kind , and fo hairy withal, ax if there wax a fmall 
foft Cotton upon them : at the tops of the Branches 
and Stalks come forth the Buds of blowers , confifling 
of five broad-pointed Leaves apiece , each Leaf being 
on its end hollowed in a little -, which being pafs'd a- 
way, there fucceed Heads oj Seed, much like to the 
former. 
VIII. The Places. Thefe all grow in moift, wet 
and morifh Grounds, and fomerimes by the fides of 
Waters, Ponds and Ditches ^ and in plafhy places. 
The firft is coriimon in many places of this King- 
dom : the fecond is more rare to be met with : the 
third and fourth are often found ^ but not altogether 
fo frequent to be feen as the firft. 
IX. The Times. They all flower in May and 
June and their Seed is ripe fome time after. 
X. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations, Vir- 
tues and Vfes, fee in the following Chapter, thefe 
being of the fame Nature and Temperature with the 
former and thofe following. 
CHAP. CLXXVI. 
Of CROWFOOT Garden. 
I.'Tp HE Names. It is called in Greek, 
A Kvmwtiv x) ffvoejfAty, x} • in Lat in. Ranun- 
culi Sativus vel hortenfis : in Englifh , Garden or 
Manured Crowfoot. 
II. The Kinds. Of the Ranunculi which Florifts 
now ftilff their Gardens withal, there is fuch a great 
number of them, that it would not be eafie to name 
them all, much lefs to defcribe them * a great part 
of them being originally Exoticks or Foreigners, but 
being brought to us, and profpering well by a Cul- 
tivating in our Gardens, they were made free Deni- 
zons, ( as it were) and fo at length became Natives 
of our Soil. The chief of thofe which we fhall 
take notice of in this Work, are the eighteen fol- 
lowing. 
III. 1 . Ranunculi montam albi major. Great 
Angle white Mountain Crowfoot. 2. Ranunculi 
montam albi humilior duplici flore. The low dou- 
ble white Mountain Crowfoot. 3. Ranunculi al- 
bi flore pleno. The double white Crowfoot. 4. 
Ranunculi pratenfis flore multiplici , The double 
yellow Field Crowfoot. 5. Ranunculi Anglia 
maximus multiplex. Garden double yellow Crow- 
foot, called alfo Batchelors-buttons. 6. Ranuncu- 
li Graminei duplice flore, Double-flowred Grafs- 
like Crowfoot. 7. Ranunculus Creticus Latifolius , 
Broad-leav’d Candy Crowfoot. 8. Ranunculus Cre- 
ticus albus. The white Candy Crowfoot. 9. Ranun- 
culus Afiaticus flore Rubro , Single red Aflan Crow- 
foot. 10. Ranunculus Afiaticus flore Amplo rubro. 
The large Angle red Aflan Crowfoot. 1 1. Ranun- 
culus Afiaticus flore rubro vario fimplici, The Angle 
red ftript Afian Crowfoot. 12. Ranunculus Afia- 
ticus flore luteo vario fimplici. The Angle yellow 
ftript Afian Crowfoot. 13. Ranunculus Afiaticus 
flore rubro pleno. The double red Afian Crowfoot. 
14. Ranunculus Afiaticus flore pleno prolifero. The 
double-buttoned red Afian Crowfoot. 15. Ranun- 
culus Thalitfri folio major. The greater Columbine- 
leav d Crowfoot. 16. Ranunculus Thalitfri folio 
minor Afphodeli radice , Small Columbine-leav’d 
Crowfoot. 17. Ranunculus lllyricus, Illyrian Crow- 
foot. 18. Ranunculus folio Plant aginis, The Plan- 
tain-leav’d Crowfoot. 
IV. The Delcriptions. The firft, or Great Angle 
white Mountain Crowfoot, h.u a Root confiding rf 
many long, thick , whitijh Strings, running out from 
a thick Head. Prom thts Root J'pring forth large and 
green Leaves, divided into three parts, and fome- 
times into five f pedal Divifions, and be fides each of 
thofe parts are dented about the edges, fome what re- 
J'e mb ling the Leaves of Globe Crowfoot, but larger. 
The Stalk Is two feet and half high, having three 
fmall Leaves, fet at the Joint of the Stalk, where it 
branches out into blowers, which fland four or five 
together upon long boot-flalks, made of Jive white 
Leaves apiece. Very fweet in Smell, with fome yellow 
Threads in the middle, encompajfing a green Head 
which , with the Seed , is very like to other Crowfeet 
of the Wild kind. There is one of this kind which is 
alfo lejfer. 
V. The fecond, or Low double white Mountain 
Crowfoot , has a Root compofed of many white 
Strings, from whence proceed three or four broad 
thick Leaves , almoft round, and pretty deeply cut in 
on the edges, of a fine green and fhining color on the 
upper fide, but not fo green underneath •, among which 
rifes up a fmall jhort Stalk, bearing one Snow-white 
blower on the top, pretty large, and a little double 
ax it were, with two rows of Leaves, with divers 
yellow Threads in the middle, flanding about a green 
Head, which in lime grows to be like to a fmall green 
Strawberry, and full of Seed. There is alfo a Jingle 
fort of this kind, having only one white blower on 
the top of each Branch, which is lejjer , and confifts on- 
ly of five round-pointed Leaves, being in all things 
elfe like the other. 
VI. The third, or Double white Crowfoot, is of 
the fame kind with the flrfl, but lejfer its Roots , 
Stalks and Leaves being alike in all refpetfs : the 
chief Difference is in the blowers, which in this 
Plant are very thick and double. The Leaves are 
fair, cut into five Divifions, and a little dented about 
the edges, green on the upper fide, and pale under- 
neath, having many Veins running thro' the Leaves : 
the Stalk grows not very high, not much above afoot 
and half in height , which is fpread into many Branches, 
whofe tops are reafonably Bored with double white 
blowers, as aforefaid. 
VII. The fourth, or Double yellow Field Crow* 
foot , has a Root running and creeping under the 
Ground, like as the Jingle does -, from whence pro- 
ceeds its Leaves and Stalks, in which there is but 
little difference from the fingle Wild kind, which 
grow in every Meadow, being large, and divided in- 
to four or five parts, and indented about the edges , 
but they are fomething frailer, and of a brisker green. 
The blowers fland on the many Branches , much di- 
vided or feparated, being not very great, but very 
thick, and double. 
VIII. The fifth , or Great Englifh Garden double 
yellow Crowfoot, called alfo Batchelors-buttons, has 
a Root round, like unto a fmall white Turnep, with 
fever al bibres adjoining to it : from which arife ?na - 
ny great black, green Leaves, jagged and cut into 
three Divifions, each to the middle Rib : from among 
thefe Leaves fpring tip the Stalks, tibicb fpread 
themf elves out into fever al Branches, and which have 
fome f mailer Leaves on them.-, and thofe which are 
next under the Branches, are long and narrow, the 
higher up, the longer and narrower. The blowers 
are of a greenifh yellow color, very thick and double 
of Leaves •, in the middle of which rifes up a Jmall 
Stalk, bearing another double blower, like to the 0- 
ther out of which it grows, but J' mailer which being 
pafs'd away, there comes a roundifh rough Head of 
Seed, much like to the other Crowfeet. 
IX. The fixth, or Double-flowred Grafs-like 
Crowfoot, has a Root compofed of many thick, long , 
K k round. 
