Elides the manured and wild Madder, which were both knowne to the ancients, there are at this time 
many other forts found out, not kno wne to them, as well of the greater as leffer kinde, fome growing: 
i on mountaines, fome in Medowes and paftures, and fome by the (ea fide: but becaufe I would not cum-c 
' ber one Chapter with too many of them, let me onely in this (hew you the greater forts, and in the 
next following the leffer. 
I. Rubin majorfntiva five hartenfis. Carden Madder. 
The Garden Madder (hooteth forth many very long, weake.foute fquare reddifh (hikes trayling on the ground' 
a great way, very rough or hairy ( which therefore 'Rhnj calleth jpmo/w prickly) and full of j'oynts; at every oi 
thele joynts come forth, diuerle long and fomewhat narrow leaves, (landing like a ftarre or the rowell of a 
fpurre, about the ltalkes. rough alfo and hairy : towards the toppes whereof, come forth many fmall pale yellow 
flowers; alter which come (mall round heads, greene at the firlland reddifh afterwards,but blackewhen they 
are thorough ripe, wherein are contained the feede: theroote is not very great, but exceeding long, running 
downe halfe a mans depth into the ground, red, and very dcare vthileitis frelh, fpreading diverfe wayes. 
a. Rubin fjlveflrit. WildMadder. 
The wild Madder is in all things like unto the manured, but that the (lalkes are fmaller, not fpreading fo farre/ 
nor yet fo rough or hairy; the leaves are lelfe, the flowers arc white, and the roote groweth greater, but not folly 
fo red, nor cleare as the Garden kinde. 
3. Rubin fjfaejhii hmgiaribui filijt. Wild Madder with long leaves. 
This wild Madder hath diverfe round joyned (lalkes, two or three (oote long or thereabouts, fomewha: 
fmooth, or at leaf! nothing fo rough, as the other wild fort: the leaves that ((ana at the joynts, are fomewha 
rough, narrower and longer chan the other, feven or eight atadiftance: at the toppes of the (lalkes, (land many 
white flowers, made of foure fmall leaves a pcece, which turne into lmall round feede like the other: the rootii 
is lmallpr, but ted like the former, 
4 - Rubin UvUTaurinenfium. Smooth leafed Madder. 
This fmooth Madder hath diverfe round lmoothflalkes.two or three foote long, pointed in like manner as the 
other,but not fo frequent,whereat (lands foure leaves uiually,not rough at all but fmooth,larger and broader that 
theGarden Madder : towards the toppes of the branches, and at the joynts with the leaves come forth divetfi: 
flowers,(landing round about the (lalkes, which confift offive or fixe (mall pure white leaves: the rootes are lmall 
Jer than the other, and runne not farre in the ground. 
5. Rubin Unit nrborefeens Creticn. The great fmooth Candy Madder. 
This Madder hath a thicke fhort ftalke about a fingers thickneffe, from whence ifluc fundry llraight fmobtt 
i. Rubin major fativa. Garden Madder. 
. RubiahcvuTawinwliuni. Smooth leafed Madder. 
