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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
■IB. 2. 
2 The fecond kind being likewife one of the bel-floures,and yet a wild kind ofRampionJiath 
i eaU es at his firft comming vp like vnto the garden Bell-floure. The leaues which fpnng vp after, 
ward for the decking vp of the (hike are fomewhat longer and narrower. The floures grow at the 
top of tender and brittle ftalkes like vnto little bells, of a bright blew colour, fometimes white or 
Diirole The root is final!, long, and fomewhat thicke. , 
^ / This is awilde Rampion that growes in woods : it hath fmall leaues fpred vpon the ground, 
bluntly indented about the edges : among which rifeth vp a ftraight (lem of the height ofa cubit, 
fet from the bottome to the top with longer and narrower leaues than thofc next the ground : at 
the top of the ftalkes grow fmall Bcll-floures of a watcher blewifh colour. The root is thicke and 
tough, with feme few firings anexed thereto , 
± There is another varietie of this, whofe figure was formerly by our Author fetforth in the 
fourth place of the laft chapter ; it differs from this laftoncly in that the floures and other parts of 
the plant are lefter a little than thofe of the laft defciibed. $ 
, RupMulMnemorofM. % 4 A ¥ nus CoruicuUus. 
Wood Rampions. Horned Rampions of the Alpes. 
+ a This which growes amongft the rockes in the higheft Alpes hathawooddy and verie 
wrinckled root an handfull and halfe long, from which arife many leaues fet on pretty long ftalks, 
fomewhat round, and diuided with reafonable deepe gafties, hauing many vemes, and being of a 
darke greene colour : amongft thefc grow vp little ftalkes, hauing one leafe about their middles, 
and three or foure fet about the floure, being narrower and longer than the bottome leaues. i lie 
floures grow as in anvmbell,and are fhaped like that Chymicall veffell we vfually call a Retort, 
being big at their bottomes, and fo becomming fmaller towards their tops and hauing many 
threds in them, whereof one is longer than the reft, and comes forth in the middle of the floure : it 
floures in Auguft. Pona was the firft that deferibed this , vnder the name of TrubtUum {ctrxum 
S The rootsof this otherkindeof horned Rampion grow after an vnufuall manner for firft 
or lowermoft is a root like to that of a Rampion, but flenderer, and from the top of that commetfi 
forth as it were another root or two, beins; final left about that place whereas t ev are a ne o 
the vnder root , and all rhefe haue fmall fibres comming from them. The leaues which firft grow 
vp are fmooth,and alrnoft like thofe of a Rampion, yet rounder, and made lomwhat after the maner 
ofaviolet leafe, but nothing fo big :at the bottome of the ftalk come forth 7 or eight long narrow 
