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low roote, but fmaller, and oFa paller fhining greene colour, fiom among which rile up one or two fmall (hikes 
I with two fuch like leaves thereon,but (mailer,and a little above tbcm,a fmall round greenifh yellow head.which 
j, fpreadeth not into leaves, but into foure or five little moffie heads of threads, and lbabidetha while, having 
i: no other flower,and paffe away into many fmall kernelly feedejthe roote is (mall and fomewhat long, compofed 
t as it were of many fmall very (Fining white thicke fcales growing upwards,and having many white fibres at the 
rl head ofthem, of a little fweetilli bitter, fharpe and binding tafte, the leaves have a little fweete fent, fome- 
«' what like unto that kinde of Cranesbill, called Miiske, yet more in the naturall places than in Gardens, when 
if itistranfplantedintothem. 
y. Ranunculus nemorofus dulcis fecundus Tragi. SwCete Wood Crowfoote. 
Thefirft Ieavesofthis kinde of Crowfoote, are round fomewhat like unto Violet leaves, and notdevided at 
all, but thofe that rife next after them, are more devided, fomewhat like unto the leaves of the lad, and fo thole 
; that grow after and upon the fialkes are more devided than they : the flowers are fmall, and of a faire fhining 
ji gold yellow colour, (banding at the toppesofthoftalkes, like unto the other common kindes of Crowfeete : af- 
ir ter which come the feede many fet together in ahead, like a fmall Strawberry, as diverfe other Crowfeete 
I have; the roote is compofed of many white firings and fibres, like unto others; neither roote or leafe of this 
kind, hath any (liarpe or biting tafie in them, but are almoft infipide. 
8 . Ranunculus Virginenfls albas. The white Virginia Crowfoote. 
The white Virginia Crowfoot (hooteth forth from a reddifh thick tuberous roote with fomc fmall fibres there¬ 
to, three or foure fomewhat large btoad whitifh greene leaves upon long foote fialkes, rent or torne on the 
| edges for the mod part, among which rifeth up a (lender round naked ftalke,five or fixe inches high, bearing one 
white flower at the toppe, made of tenne or of twelve fmall narrow and pointed leaves,with a few yellowifii 
threds in the middle,fet about a greenifh utnbone, which in time groweth to be a long (lender pod, wherein is 
contained round whitifh feede. The Place. 
The mod forts of thefe are found growing in Woods, Groves,and Orchards, fome of them in our owne land 
. in many places, the refi in many places of Italy, Germary,&c. The fift is found as well by the brooke Tides that 
paffe by Medovves, as in Woods, and by hedge fides. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower very earely in the Spring, in March oftentimes, or at the furthefl in April!. 
The Names. 
The firfifonre arc diverfly called of diverfe Writers, for fome call them Ranunculi nemerefi, or nemorum and 
fylnarum, others Anemones fylveSlres, or nemorofa; but in regard none of thefe do beare any cottony head offeede 
as all the Anemones doe. I rather hold with their judgement, that referre them to the kindes of Ranunculus or 
Crowfoote ;yct C lupus thinketh that they may be reckoned as kindes of wild Anemones, and faith that diverfe 
did thinke them to be the AnemonefylveSlris, that Theophrapus calleth hetuwU Leimon'm ; the Italians call them 
Gcngevo falvatico,wild Ginger, either becaufe the rootes of them all, are very (harpe, hot and biting the tongue 
like Ginger.or rather as 1 thinke,becaufe the rootes doe grow a little fpreading into feverall parts, very like un- 
toGinger. 7>«£«r calleth them Ranunculus fyheftris, whereof there are two forts as he faith, Candidas and hi. 
tens, one that beareth white flowers and an other yellow : Iohannes Thahus maketh them his third kinde of 
I Crowfeete : Gefner calleth the firft white one Ranunculus Phragmitis: I have therefore upon more mature ad¬ 
vice entituled them Wood Crowfeete, and fet them in the firll rankeor divifion : thefecondis called by Ban. 
hinus Ranunculus nemorofus ^Anemones flore minor-. the third, fourth and fifth, have their names in their titles s 
the fixe is diverfly alfo called,for Cordus calleth it MofchatelU, and fome other Mofchatella pratenp: that it may 
differ from the Mofchatella carulea of Lugdunenfis called alfo cAgeratum pururcum ; Lobel calleth it Ranunculus 
minimus Septentrionalium herbido mufeofo flore.Tragus and Gefner make it to be a kinde of Ariftolochia, for fo they 
accounted the Radix (fava to be,and thereupon as Camerarius faith,divers did aswell account it a kinde of Capuos 
as fmall Crowfoote. Lugdunenfis calleth it Denticulata from the forme of the rsote which is made as it were of 
many teeth fer together: Thefevenrh is Tragus his fecond Ranunculus fylveflris, and Lobel Vis Ranunculus «uri~ 
, comas. The Iaft hath not beene fet forth by any before. 
The Venues. 
By reafonoftbe hot fharpe biting tafte of the foure firft forts, they are found no lefle to exulcerate the skinne 
i being applied, then any of the other forts of Crowfeete; yet they may be well ufed to cate away and confume 
hard tumours, as alfo to take away fcarres and other blemifhes, and wartes upon the hands, &c. and to eate our 
the core of comes in the feete, the leaves or roote efpecially, being bruifed and bound to for a certaine fpace: 
They are laid alfo to clenfe foule ulcers that are much corrupted and (linking. The 6. and 7 . fort are notknowne 
tobeufed. Vntothis Divifion appertaine thofe other fortsof Anemones fylveftres flore pleno, fet forthin my 
former Wotke. 
Ditvi/to fecunddi, The fecond divifion. 
Ranunculipratenfes & arvenfes. Field Crowfeete. 
t. Ranunculus pratenfis du'eis. Sweete Meddow Crowfoote. 
T His Meddow Crowfoote (which I call fweet, not as Gnvsrddoth becaufe it fmelleth fweete, but in regard 
it hath no fharpe biting or exulcerating tafte, asmoft of the other Crowfeete have, but is fo fweete 
and pleafant, that many in Germany and other places, doe flew the leaves, when they are young amon<r 
. other herbes, that ferve to eatcj hath diverfe great broad, darke greene leaves, fpread uponthe^grounc^ 
a little hayrie, cut in on the edges into five divifions, and a little dented alfo about, j efpecially at the 
ends, and of a paler yellowilh greene on the underfide, of a fweete and not nnpleafant tafte, as I fayd 
before; among which rife up diverfe hayrie fialkes, with fome leaves upon them, much more divided and 
into fmaller and narrower parts, than the lower: atthetoppes whereof (land many faire yellow flowers, fo 
like unto the nextfieldeCrowfoote,that is very violent, fliarpe andexu’ecrating theskinnej that it can hardly 
