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j among which rife vp {lender ftalkes, bearing at the top fmall yellow floures like the other Crow- 
feet .- the root is fmall and threddy. 4 There is a variety of this hauing double floures - and Ihaue 
! giuen you the figure thereof in Head of the Angle that was formerly in this place. 4 
10 The Autumneor Winter Crow-foot hath diners broad leaues fpred vpon the ground, fnipc 
i about the edges.ofa bright fhininggreene colour on the vpper fide, and hoary vnderneatb, full of 
ribsor finewesasarcthofeofPlantaine, of an vnpleafant tafte at the firft, afterward nipping the 
: tongue : among wh ich leaues rife vp fundry tender foot-ftalkes, on the tops whereof /land yellow 
: floures confiding of fix fmall leaues apiece rafter which fucceed little knaps of feed liketo adry 
. orwithered flraw-berry. The root is compaft ofa number of limber roots.rudely thruft together 
in manner of the Afphodill. n 
it The Portugal! Crow-foot hath many thicke clogged roots faftnedvntoone head, very like 
thofe of the yellow Afphodill ; from which rife vp three leaues, feldome more, broad, thicke, and 
; puffed vp in diuers places, as if it were a thing that were bhftercd, by meanes whereof it is very vn- 
! y er i- from the middle ofwhich leaues rifeth vpanaked ftalke, thicke, far, very tender, but yet 
: fragile, or eafie to breake : on the end whereof ftandeth a faire fingle yellow floure, hauino-in the 
middle a naked nindle ofa gold yellow tending to a Saffron colour. 
11 Ranunculus Lufhanicits clujij. 12 Ranunculus globofus. 
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. colour like thofe ol the field Crow-Foot: among which rifeth vp a ftalke 3 diuided toward the top - 
into other branches, furniihed with the like leaues of thofe next the ground, but fmaller : on the 
: tops ofwhich branches grow very faire yellow floures, confiding of afew leaues folded or rolled 
vp together like a round bailor globe .-whereupon it was called Ranunculus glob»(us, or the Globe 
. Crow- foot, or Globe floure: which being pafi, there fucceed round knaps, wherein is blackifh 
ifeed. Theroot is fmall and threddy. 
$ 13 This hath large leaues like thofe of the laft delcribed, but rough and hairy : the ftalk is 
Tome foot high : the floures are pretty large, compofed of fiue whice fltarpifh pointed leaues. It 
I floures in Inly, and growes in the Alps : it is the Ranunculi montani 2. fpecies alter n of Clufiui , 
14 This other hath leaues not vnlike thofe of the precedent , and fuch ftalkes alfo ■, but the 
floures confi ft of 5 round leaues, purplifh beneath - the edges of the vpper fide are ofa whitilli pur- 
'ple, & the refidue wholly white, with many yellow threds in the middle ; it grows in the mountain 
Portugall Crow-foot. 
Locker Gowlofis or Globe Crowfoot. 
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