Chap. 3 5. 'Englifh Herts. 
many places:, the lecond grows alfo in woody, bar 
ren, and unrilled places ^ the third was lent by Jo- 
fephus de CaJ'abona, Herbarilt to the Great Duke of 
1 i/j cany. to Camerarius ,out of Italy. 
VII. rbe Times. The hr If Flowers almoff every 
Month, as the Common Kind does, the two ialt 
Flower in May, June , July, and Augufi. 
VIII. The Vitalities, Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues of thefe are the fame with thofe of the 
Common Kind, delivered in the former Chapter from 
Sect. 7. to Seft. 1 8. and therefore we Ihali fay no 
more thereof in this place. 
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CHAP. CCCXXXV. 
0/ H A R E S-B ELLS Englifh, 
0 R , 
Englifh HYACINTH. 
r j I H E Names. It has no known Greek Name, 
J, but in Latine it is called Hyacintbus Anglicus ’ 
Hyacimbus Be/gicus, and Hyacimbus Hifpanicus in 
Englifh Hares-Bells, or Englifh Hyacinth. 
II. T he Kinds. Of this Plant there ate four 
Kinds, viz. 1. Hyacimbus Anglicus Cstruleus , Hya- 
cinthus non fcript us Dodonni, (becaule none wrote of 
it before him) Blew Englilh Hares-Bell, and Blew 
Englilh Hyacinth; but it is as well called Be/gicus, 
and Hifpanicus. 2. Hyacimbus Anglicus A/bus , Hy- 
acintbus Be/gicus Candidus , White Englilh or Dutch 
Hares-Bells, or White Englilh or Dutch Hyacinth. 
5. Hyacintbus Anglicus , tutt Belgicus Flore lncarnato 
Carnation Englilh or Dutch Hares-Bells, or Hyacinth! 
4. Hyacintbus Hifpanicus major , Flore Campanula: in- 
ftnr , The greater Spanilh Hares-Bells, or Bell-Flow- 
ered Hyacinth. 
Blew ITfuylisJi flam 2kV , 
III. The Defer iptions. Thefirji, or Blew Englilh 
Hares-Bells. The Roots of all thefe foi ls agree., and 
are alike , being while, and very flinty, fome of which 
will be great and round , others longer and flenier, 
andlhofe which lye near the top of the Earth bare, will 
be of a green color. From this Hoot riles up leveral 
long and narrow green Leaves, 110; Handing upright, 
nor yet fully lying upon the Ground, among which 
Ipringsup the Staik, bearing at the top many long 
and hollow Flowers, lunging down their Heads, all 
forwards for the molt parr, and divided at the brims 
into fix Leaves or Diviiions, turning up their points 
a little again, of a fweecilh but heady Icent, lome- 
wliat like unto the Graffie Flower; the Heads tor 
Seed are long and Iquare, in which are contained 
much black Seed; the color of the Flowers are in 
fome a deeper Blew, tending to a Purple, in others 
of a paler Blew, or of a bleak Blew, tending to an 
Alh Color; and fome are Party Colored. 
IV. The fecond, or White Englilh Hares-Bells, hru 
Roots, Leaves, Stalks and Flowers very like the for- 
mer, faving, that the Leaves in this are fomewhar 
broader, and the Flowers more open, and of a very 
white color, yet fometimes they are White and 
Blew mixt together. 
V. The third, or Carnation Englifh Hares-Bells. 
Thefe in their bulbous Roots, Leaves, Stalks, blow- 
ers, and Seed, as alfo in their magnitude and form 
of growing, are very like to the firfi and fecond 
Kinds, faving that the Flowers in this are of a fine 
Carnation Color for the molt part, or of a fine delay- 
ed purplilh Red, or blulh Color, which ibme tall a 
Peach Color. 
VI. The fourth , or Greater Spanilh Hares-Bells. 
It has a bulbous Root, from whence fpring up Jeve- 
ral long and narrow green Leaves, which have not 
Jirengtb enough in themfelves to ftand upright , but 
a little incline or bend downwards. This Plant is 
very like to the firlt aforegoing, but that it is greater 
in all its parts, as well of Leaves as Flowers, many 
growing together at the top of the Stalk, with ma- 
ny fhort green Leaves among them , hanging down 
their Heads, with larger, greater, and wider open 
Mouths, like unto Bells, of a dark Blew Color and 
of no pleafmg fmell. 
VII. The Places. The firlt Parktnfon lays is fo 
common every where, that it fcarcely needed any 
Defcription, and that it is more frequent in England 
than in the Low Countries , or in Spain ; it grows 
in Woods, Copfes, and in the borders of Fields, eve- 
ry where throughout England-, the fecond and ’third 
are not fo common, but they grow in the Woods by 
Colchefler, in EJfex, in the Fields and Woods by 
Southfleet, near unto Gravefend, in Kent, as alfo in 
a piece of Ground by Canterbury called the Clapper 
alfo in the Fields by Bath , and in the Woods by 
Warrington, in Lancajhtre, and in other places. 
VIII. The Times. They Flower from the begin- 
ning of May to the end of June , and the Seed ripens 
in the mean Seafon, and in fome little time after. 
IX. As to their Qualities, Specification , Prepara- 
tions and Virtues Authors have laid nothing, nor do 
we know any thing by Experience concerning tile 
fame, favmg, that an Ointment being made of the 
Roots hereof, is of lingular ufe to ftrengthen weak 
Joints. 
X. Note. The Root of Hares-Bells, as it is gene- 
rally bulbous, fo it is full of a' thick, flimy, Empla- 
ftick Juice, which is of fo ltrong a body, that it will 
ferveto fet Feathers upon Arrows, inltead of Glew, 
or to palte Books with ; and hereof was formerly 
made the bell Starch, next to that of Aron, or Wake- 
Robin Roots. 
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