Lib. z. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
tbe Wall-nut tree both in faihion and greatneffe :ac the top of the ftalkes grow faire lar^e red 
floures very like roles, hauingalfo in the mid ft yellow threds or thrums like them in the rote cal- 
led Anthem : which being vaded and fallen away, there come in place three or foure great cods or 
liuskes, which do open when they are ripe j the inner part of which cods is of a fane red colour, 
" herein is contained blacke fhining and polifhed feeds as bigasapea(e,and betweeneeuery black 
leed is couched a red or crimfon feed, which is barren and empty. The root is thicke, great and 
tuberous, like vnto the common Peionie. 
2 There is another kinde of Peionie, called of Dodon&us , P&euLi famine prior of Lohtl, P&onia 
famirm : in Englifh, female Peonie, which is fo well knowne vnto all that it needeth not any de- 
Icription. 
3 The third kinde of Peionie (which Pena fetteth forth vnder the name Paonia fiemina peljan. 
thus : Dodon&us, P<eonia firmiiu multiplex : in Englifh , Double Peionie) hath leaues, roots, and 
floures like the common female Peionie, faue that his leaues are not fo much iagged, and are of a 
lighter greene colour : the roots are thicker and more tuberous, and the floures much greater, ex- 
ceeding double, ofavery deep red colour, in fafhionvery like the great double rofe of Prouince, 
but greater and more double. 
2 Peonia firmina. a Pxoniafamina multiplex. 
4 There is found another fort of the double Peionie,not differing from the precedent in ftalks, 
leaues, or roots i this plant bringeth forth white floures, wherein conlifteth the difference. 
5 There is another kinde of Peionie (called of D odun<eus, Pnonia faeminadtera .- but of Pcna,P.t- 
oniapromifcua.fiiic neutra: inEnglifh, Maiden or Virgin Peiony) that is like to the common Peiony, 
Awing that his leaues and floures are much leffe, and the ftalks fhorter : it bearech red floures and 
feed alfo like the former. 
6 Wehaue likevvife in our London gardens another fort bearing floures of a pale whitifh colour, 
very Angle, refembling the female wilde Peiony, in other refpefis like the double white Peiony, 
but leffer in all the parts thereof. 
7 Cltifius by feed fent him from Conftantinople had two othervarietiesof (ingle Peioniesj 
the one had the leaues red when they came out of the ground ; and the floureofthis was of a deep 
red colour : the other had them of a whitifh g>-eene, and the floures of this were fomewhae larger, 
and ofa lighter colour. 1 n the leaues & other parts they refembled the common double Peiogy . t 
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