Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. 2 
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3' The fmaller or finer leafed double Marigold groweth vpright, hauing for the molt part one 
Item or fat fpbngeous ftalke, garnifhed with fmooth and fatleaues confufedly. Thefioures srawt 
at the top of the fmall branches, very double,but lelfer than the other.confifti'ng of more fineiag- 
gednelfe, and of a faire yellow gold colour. The root is like the precedent. 
4 The Globe-flouring Marigold hath many large broad lcaues riling immediatelv forth of 
the ground , among which rifeth vp a ftalke of the height of acubir,diuiding it felfe toward the 
top into other fmaller branches, fet or garnifhed with the like leaties, but confufedly, or without 
order. The floures grow at the top of the ftalkes, very double ; the fmall leaues whereof are fet in 
comely order by certaine rankes or rowes, as fundry lines are in a Globe,trauerfinir the whole com- 
palfe of the fame - whereupon it tooke the name Orkculata. 
5 The fifth fort of double Marigold differeth not from the laft deferibed, failing in the colour 
of the floures ; for this plant brinj,eth forth floures of a ftraw or light yellow colour, and the others 
not fo, wherein confifteth the difference. 
X All thefe fine here deferibed, and which formerly had fomany figures.differ nothing but in 
the bigneffe and littlenefle of the plants and floures, and in the intenfeneffe and remifnefle of their 
colour, which is cither orange, yellow, or of a ftraw colour. 4 
6 The Marigold with (ingle floures dtffereth not frorathofe with double floures, but in that 
it confifteth of fewer leaues, which we therefore terme Single, in companion of the reft, and that 
maketh the difference. 
7 This fruicfull or much bearing Marigold is likewife called of the vulgar fort of women 
Iacke-an-apes on horfebacke : it hath leaues, ftalkes, and roots like the common fort ofMarigold’ 
differing in the fhape of his floures, for this plant doth bring forth at the top of the ftalke one 
floure like the other Marigolds b from the which ftart forth fundry other final floures, yellow like- 
wife, and of the fame falTiion as the firft, which if I be not dec&iued commeth to paf Te per accident, 
or by chance, as Nature oftentimes liketh to play with other floures, or as children are borne with 
two thumbes on one hand, and filch like,which lining to be mep,doget children like vnto others • 
euen fo is the feed of this Marigold, which if it be fowen, it brings forth not one floure in a thou- 
fand like the plant from whence it was taken. 
8 The other fruitfull Marigold is doubrlefTe a degenerate ktnd,comming by chance from the 
feed of the double Mangold, whereas for the mod part the other commeth of the feed of the An- 
gle floures, wherein confifteth the difference. X The floure of this (wherein the onely difference 
confifts) you fhall finde expreft at the bottome of the fourth figure. X 
9 The A 1 pi ill or mountaine Marigold, 
which Lobelias fetteth downefor Nardm ftl- 
tica, or PUntago sllpina, is called by Tabcrna- 
montanus , Caltha, or Calendula dlpina : and be- 
caufe I fee it rather refcmbles a Marigold, 
than any other plant, I bane not thought 0 it a- 
miffe to infert it in this place, leaning the 
confideration thereof vnto the friendly Rea- 
der, or to a further confideration, becaufe it 
is a plant that I am not well acquainted with- 
all ; yet I doe reade that it hath a thicke root, 
growing aflope vnder the vpper cruft of the 
earth, of an aromaticall or fpicie tafte , and 
fomewhatbiting,vvithmany threddy firings 
annexed thereto : from which rife vp broad 
thicke and rough leaues of an ouerworn green 
colour, nor vnlike to thole of Plantaine : a- 
mong which there rifeth vp a rough and ten- 
der ftalke fet with the like leaues ; on the top 
wherof commeth forth a (ingle yellow floure, 
paled about the edges with fmall leaues of a 
light yellow, tending to a ftraw colour ; the 
middle of the floure is compofed of a bundle 
of threds, thicke thruft together, fuch as is 
in the middle of the field Daifie, of adeepe 
yellow colour. 
t This Plant is all one with the two de- 
feribed in the next Chapter: they vary onely 
thus ; 
9 Calendula ^Alpina. 
Mountaine Marigold. 
