Of the Hiilory of Plants. 
IB. z. 
1059 
TbeDefirrption. 
1 HP He firft kinde of Filipendula hath Ieaues growing and fpred abroad like feathers, each 
Jcafe confifting of fundry fmall Ieaues dented or fnipt round about the edges , o’ r0 w- 
ing to the ftalke by a fmall and flender Item : tbefe Ieaues refemble vvilde Tanfie or 
Burnet, but that they be longer and thicker, fet like feathers, as. isaforefaid : among thefe rife vp 
ftalkes a cubit and a halfe high, at the top whereof grow many faire white floures, each fmall floure 
confifting of fix flender Ieaues, like a little Aar, bulbing together in a tuft like the floures ofMede- 
fweet, ofafoftfweetfmell : the feed is fmall, and grovveth together likea button : the roots are 
fmall and blacke, whereupon depend many little knops or blacke pellets, much like the roots of 
the female Peonie, failing that they be a great deale fmaller. 
2 The fecond kinde of Filipendula, called of Pena in his Obfcruations, Oenanthe,fiuc philipen- 
duladteramntaiu, is neither at this day very well knowne, neither did the old writers heretofore 
once write or fpeake ofit : but Pena that painefiill HerbariA found it growing naturally in Nar- 
bone in France, neere vnto Veganium, on the top of the high hills called Par ads fa Dei , and neere 
vnto the mountaine Calcaris : this rare plant hath many knobby long roots, in fhapeliketo<_^f- 
fjfbodelus luteus, or rather like the roots of Cormda, or vvilde Afparagus ; from which rifeth vp a 
ftalke a foot high, and more, which is thicke, round, and chanellcd, befet full of Ieaues like thofe 
of common Filipendula, but they be not fo thicke fetor winged, but more like vnto the Ieaues ofa 
Thiftle, confitting of fundry fmall Ieaues, in fafliion like to Coronopu* Rucllij, that is, Ruellius his 
Bucks home : round about the top of the Aalke there groweth a very faire tuft of white floures, re- 
fembling fine fmall hoods, growing clofe and thicke together hk£ "the floures of PedicuUrif, that 
is, Red Rattle, called of Carolut Clnfius , Alcttorolophos , whereof he maketh this plant a kinde,but i n 
my iudgeinent and opinion it is rather like Cjtioforcbis, a kinde of Satyrion. 
3 There is another kinde of Filipendula fet forth vnder the name of Oeumbe, thathath many 
tuberous and thicke roots like thole of Drop-wort, but white of colour, and euery one of thofe 
knobs hath a certaine firing of fibre annexed thereto 5 from whence arifeth a crefted ftalk twofoos 
