3 8 4- 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
I B. 2. 
^y The description. 
'T’Hc firft ofthefe wilde Anemones hath iagged leauesdeepely cut or indented, which do 
1 o ro w vpon the middle part of. aweake and tender ftalke: at the top whereof dothftand 
a prettie yellow floure madeof fix fmall leaues, and in the middle of the floure there is a little 
blackifh pointell, and certaine (lender chines or threds. The root is fmall, fomewhat knottie and 
xery b “" I |;j cond hath j d i eaueSj not vnlike to water Crowfoot or mountaine Crowfoot .The 
flower groweth at the top of the ftalke not vnlike to the precedent in fhape, tailing that this is of a 
miflie white colour the root is like the jOther. , 
± There is alfo of this fingle kinde two other vaneties,the one with a purple floure, which wee 
may therefore call Anemone nemorum purpurea , the wilde purple Winde-floure. And the other 
with a Scarlet for rather a Blufh)coloured floure, which we may termer Anemone nemorum coco, me. 
The wilde Scarlet wind floure.Thefe two differ not in other refpefts from the white wind floure.p 
2 There is in fome choice gardens one of this kinde with white floures very double, as is that 
of the Scarlet Anemone , and I had one of them giuer. mee by a worfhipfull Merchant of London, 
called M.' John FranqueaUU, my very good friend. 
± 4 This in roots and ftalkes is like the laft deferibed wood Anemones j or winde floures.But 
this and the laft mentioned double one haue leaues on two places of their ftalks, whereas the An- 
gle ones haue them but in one, and that is about the middle of the ftalkes . The floure of this dou- 
ble one confifts of fome fortie or more li ttle leaues,wbcreof the outermoft are the biggelt ; the bot - 
tomes or nailes ofthefe leaues are of adeepe purple, but the other parts of a lighter blufh co- 
lour. $ , , 
^y The Piece. 
All thefe wilde fingle Anemones grow in mod woods and copies through England, except that 
with the yellow floure, which as yet I haue not feene : notwithftanding I haue one of the greater 
kindes which beareth yellow floures, whofe figure is not expreffednor yet deferibed, for that it 
doth very notably refemble thofe w irh fingle floures , but is of fmall moment, either m beautie of 
the floure or othervvife. $ The double ones grow onely in fome few gardens. $ 
«y The Time. 
They floure from the middeft of Februarie vnto the end of April!, or the midft of May. 
^y The Names. 
$ The firft ofthefe by moft Writers is referred to the Ranunculi, or Crowfeet ; and Lohel cals 
it fitly Ranunculus nemorofus luteus: only Dodonuus,C<efalpinus, and our Authour haue made it an 
2 This with the varieties alfo, by Fuchfius,Cordus, Gefeer, Zoic//, and others, is madea 
Ranunculus : yet liodon*us,C*ftdfinm, and our Authour haue referred it to the ^Anemones. Clufius 
thinkes this to be Anemone, of T heophr aflus . 
3 Clufius calls this c. Anemone Limoni u , or Ranunculus fluarum fto. plena alho. 
4 And he ftiles this Anem.hmoma, or Ranunc.fyljore'pleno purpurafeente. $ 
•y The Temperature and Vertues. 
The faculties and temperature of thefe plants are referred to the garden forts of Anemones. 
C H A P. 79. Of Baflard e Anemones , or Bafque floures. 
^y The Defcription. 
»-r'He firft of thefe Pafque floures hath many fmall leaues finely cut or lagged , like 
^ ^ 1 1 • r .. .1 1 AalT.nn Mm J 1 -wtjvia. Tiilioroiinnn rlno 
■'nenrii ui lucic tj . . 1 , 
x thofe of Carrots: among which rife vp naked ftalkes, rough and hairie ; whereupon doe : 
grow beautiful! floures bell fafhion, of a bright delated purple colour : in the bottome whereof i 
groweth a tuft of yellow thrums, and in the middle of the thrums it thrufteth forth a fmall purple : 
pointell : when the whole floure is paft there fucceedeth an head or knop compaft of many gray i 
hairy lockes.and in the folide parts of the knops lieth the feed flat and hoarie, euery feed hailing ; 
his owne fmall haire hanging at it. The root is thicke and knobby, of a finger long, running right r 
daw ne, and therefore not" like vnto thofe of the Anemone, which it doth in all other parts very nota- j 
bly refemble, and whereof no doubt this is a kinde. 
There is no difference at all in the leaues, roots, or feedes,betweene this red Pafque floure : 
2 1 licit Is 11W UU1V.IV»U^ aL au ill — 3 -> -> 1 * 
and the precedent, nor in any other point, but in the colour of the floures ; for whereas the other t 
