Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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The Place. 
The two firft grow in our London gardens, and not wilde in fengland. 
The reft, except that fmall one with yellow floures, dogrowvvildein moft places of England 
fefpecially vpon barren Tandy heaths and fucli like grounds'. b 3 
The Time. 
Thefe Bell-floures do flourifh from May vnto Auguft. 
If The Names. 
Their feuerall titles fet forth their names in Englilh and Latine,which is as much as hath been 
faid of them. 
The Temperature and Virtues. 
Thefe Bell-floures, efpecially the fourelaft mentioned, are cold and dry, and of the nature of 
Rampions, whereof they be kindes . 
t "pc figure in die fourth place 'fly. of T^apibtcubu ntmAofiu flofTdcrit- whereof youfhallfindc mention in the following chapter. 
C h a f. n 8. Of%ajnpions,or wide ‘Bell-floures. 
I Raptmtiummajas. 
Great Rampion. 
2 Rapuntium pttrvimt. 
Small Rampion.-. 
Lonnevjo tWMrJLx; UyVL^laJ^Li. S . 
The Tefcription . 
i ’"jj He great Rampion being one of the Bell-floures, hath Ieaues which appeare or come 
[ forth at the beginning fomewhat large and broad, fmooth and plaine, not vnliketo 
the Ieaues of the fmalleft Beet. Among which rife vp ftemmes one cubit high", fet 
with fuch like Ieaues as thofe are of the firft fpringingvp, but fmaller, bearing at thetOp of the 
ftalke a great thicke bulhy eare full of little long floures clofely thruft together like a Fox-taile : 
which fmallfloures before their opening are like little crooked homes, and being wide opened 
they are fmall blevv-bells, femetimes white, or fometimes purple. The root is white, and as thicke 
as a mans thumbe. 
Pp 3 2 The 
