III. The Defcri ptions. The firfi , or Ordinary or 
Common Larks Heel or Spar, has a Root which is 
hard after it is run up to Seed , fpr ending both abroad 
and deep , yet perijhes every Tear , raffing it felj u- 
fually from its own Sowing , as well as from the 
Seed /own in the Spring time. From this Root rife 
many Branches , which fpread much more Ground 
than the orhers, rather leaning or bending down to 
the Ground, than Handing upright j on which are 
let many long greeu Leaves, finely cut, almoit like 
to Fennel Leaves. The Branches end in a long 
Spike of hollow Flowers, with a long Spur or Heel 
behind them, ( whence fhe Name ) very like unto 
the Flowers of hollow -Root, ( before deferibed) and 
arc of feveral and various Colours, as of a blewifh 
purple Color, or white, or Afh color, or red, paler 
or deeper, as alfo party-colored, of two Colors in a 
Flower. After the blowers are paft, (which in 
this Kind abide longer than in the other) long 
round Cods come forth, containing very black 
Seed. 
IV. The fecond , or Double Common Larks-Spur. 
Of this Common Kind, there is feme Difference in 
the Flower , ah ho' in nothing elfc .* the Flowers grow 
many upon a Stalk, like the former, but every one 
of them are as if three or four fmall Flowers were 
joined together, with every one his Spur behind, 
the greatelt Flower being outermojf, and as it were 
containing the relb, which are of a pale red or deep 
blufh Color. Another of the Kind will bear its 
Flowers with three or four Rows of Leaves in the 
middle, making a double Flower, with one Spur 
only behind : and of this Kind there is with purple, 
blew, blufh and white Flowers, as alfo party-color 
ed. And thefe all bear Seed like the Single , where- 
by they are increafed every Year. 
V. The third, or Wild Larks-Spur. Its Root is 
much like the former , whence rife up f mailer and 
lower Branches , with f mailer and fhorter Leaves , 
and more fperfedly or thinly growing upon them , than 
upon any of the former. The Flowers likewife are 
neither fo large as any of the aforegoing, nor fo 
many growing together : the Cods likewife have 
fmaller Seed, and is harder to grow in Gardens 
VI. The fourth , or Spanifh Wild Larks-Spur. It 
has a Root which is Jmall and thready , fuddenly pe- 
rifhing with the fir ft Cold which overtakes the Riant. 
It has feveral long arid broad Leaves next the 
Ground, cut in on both fides, fomething like to a 
Scabious Leaf, but it is fmooth on ihe edges, and 
not indented befides the Cuts ; it is of a whitifh 
green Color, and fomething fmooth and foft in 
handling. From among the Leaves rifes up a whitifh 
green Stalk, having many fmaller Leaves upon it, 
which grow below, and not divided -, branching out 
into many fmall Stalks or Arms, bearing Flowers 
like unto the Wild Larks-Spur , but fmaller, and of 
a bleak blewifh Color •, which being paft , there 
comes forth two or three fmall Cods, joined together, 
in which is black Seed, and fmaller and rounder 
chan any of the former. 
VII. The fifth , or Single upright bearing Larks- 
Spur of many Colors. The Difference between this 
and the third , or Wild Larks-Spur aforegoing , is, 
that the Leaves of this are not fully fo green , nor 
fo large : the Stalks grow upright to the Height of a 
Man, and fome times higher, having fome Branches 
thereon , hut fewer than the former , and funding 
likewiff upright, and not leaning down as the others. 
The tops of the Stalks are better ftored with Flow- 
ers than the ocher, being fometimes two Feet long, 
and above, of the fame Fafhion, but not altogether 
fo large, and of feveral and more various Colors, 
as white, pale, blufh, red, deeper and paler, afh- 
colored, purple or violet, and of an over-worn 
blewifh purple, or Iron Color. For all thefe we 
have fimple without any Mixture or Spot. We 
have alfo other forts among the fimple Colors, 
which rife from the fame Seed, and will have 
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