Lib. x. 
Of the Hiflorie of Plants, 
f Ranunculus maximus Anglicus. 
Double Crow-foot, or Batchelors buttons. 
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2 Ranunculus ditlcis multi flex. 
Double wilds Crow-foot. 
j acCru^Xviu' 
3 The white double Crow-foot hath many 
great leaues deeply cut with great gafhes,and thofe 
Inipt about the edges. The ftalks diuide themfelues 
into diuers brittle branches, on the tops whereof do 
grow very double floures as white as fnow, and of 
the bignefle of our yellow Batchelors button. The 
root is tough, limber, and difperfeth it felfe farre a- 
broad, whereby it greatly increafeth. 
% The Place. 
Thefirftand third are planted in gardens for the 
beauty of the floures,and likewife the fecond, which 
hath oflatebeene brought out of Lancafhirevnto 
our London gardens, by a curious gentleman in the 
fearching forth ofSimples,M r .r<W««w Hesketh,\\ ho 
found it growing wilde in the towne fields ofa final 
village called Hesketh, not farre from Latham in 
Lancalhire. r . 
qi The Time „ 
They floure from the beginning of May to the 
endoflune. 
The Names. 
Dlofcorides hath made no mention hereof; but A- 
f views hath feparated the firft of thefe from the 
others, intreating of it apart, and naming it by a pe-' 
CLiliar name Batrachion . whereupon it is alfo called 
Apuleij Batrachion, or Apuleius Crow-foot. 
It is commonly called Rapum D .Am honii, or Saint 
Anthonies Rape : it may be called in Enslifh, Ra pe 
Crow-foot : it is called generally about Londoa 
Batchelors buttons, and double Crow-foot : in 
1111 3 Dutch, 
