Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Li B.Z. 
1090 
4 The fmall white Hollow-root likewife agreeth with the former in each refpeft, failing that 
this plant bringeth white floures , and the other not fo. 
I Radix Ctma maicr purpurea. 
Great purple Hollow-root. 
2 Radix c.uia maior alia. 
Greatwhite Hollow-root.- 
5 This kinde of Hoi low-root is alfo like the laft deferibed, failing that the floures hereof are 
mixed with purple and white, which maketh it to differ from the others. 
6 There is no difference in this, that can poffibly be diftinguifhed,f rom the laft deferibed, fa- 
uing that the floures hereof are of a mixt colour, white and purple, with fome yellow in the hollow- 
neffe of the fame, wherein confifteth the difference from the precedent. 
7 This thin leafed Hollow-root hath likewife an hollow root,couered oner with a yellow pil- 
ling, of the bigneffe of a tennife ball : from which fhoot vp leaues fpred vpon the ground, very like 
vnto the leaues of Columbines, as well in forme as colour, but much thinner, more iagged,and al- 
together lefl'er: among which rife vp fmall tender ftalkes, weake and feeble, of an handfull high, 
bearing from the middle thereof to the top very fine floures, fafhioned vnto one piece of the Co- 
lumbine floure, which refembleth a little bird of a purple colour. 
8 This other thin leafed Hollow-root is like the precedent, failing that this plant brings forth 
white floures tending to yellowneffe, or as it were of the colour of the field Primrofe. 
9 USUimpfecn? IjOlbOOJftClC, as the Dutch men doe call it, hath many fmall iagged leaues 
growing immediately from the ground ,, among which rife vp very flender ftalkes , whereon doe 
grow fuch leaues as thofe next the ground : on the top of the branches (land faire purple floures 
like vnto the others of his kinde, failing that the floures hereof are as it were fmall birds, the bel- 
lies or lowerparts whereofare of a white colour, wherein it differeth from all the reft of the Hol- 
low-toots. 
ro The laft and fmall hollow-root is like the laft deferibed, failing that it is altogether leffe, 
and the floures hereof are of a greene colour, not vniike infhape to the floures of Cinkefoile. 
t This plant, whole figure our Author here gaue with this fmall defeription, is that which from 
the fme! of muske is called Mofchatelli , by Cordus and others ; it is the Venticulata of D alefchampius : 
the Fumaria bullofa iuberofa m imma of T abernamont anus : and th e Ranunculus minimus fcptcntrionalium 
berbido mufeojo /lore oiLobel. The root hereof is fmall and toothed, or made of little bulbes refera- 
bling teeth, and ending in white hairy fibres : it fendethvp diners -little branches fome two 
or 
