pled or fwolne leaner, like as it were blifters upon them, and bearing the flower with eight or ten leaves, fome; 
times as if it were double, whereof he giveth a figure, but the feede will beare fuch like plants, as he fetteth forth 
the other to be, and therefore giveth no other mention or defcription thereof, 
14. Ranunculusautumnalisflore multiplier. Doubkflowred Autumne Crowfoote. 
This is fo like the laft m the manner of the growing and flowring, that onelv the double yellow flowers make 
the difference. 
15. Ranunculusgrumofarttdicc Banonicnjls . MeddowCrowfoote of ^ivJMMwithkernellyrootes. 
This Crowfoote hath a rootc made of many fmall long and round wh ite kernels, Or graines fet clofe together j 
with diverfe long fibres at them, from whence rife up fomewhat round leaves, but deepely cut in on the edges, 
into three parts, fomewhat like unto thofe of the round rooted Crowfoote, fultained by long foote ftalkes, and 
fomewhat hayrie : from among which rife up the ftalkes, that are hay tie alfo, andabout afootehigh, having 
leaves fet thereon at two feverall diftances, much more cut in and jagged than thofe below, not divided into 
mrny branches, whofe flowers at the tops of them are yellow, like unto other field Crowfeete : the fmall head! 
ofrough feede that followeth, is Charpc pointed, and fnortcr than others. 
1 6' Ranunculus Gcranii tuberofi folio. lagged field Crowfeete of Padoa. 
The rootesofthis Crowfeete confift of long whitilh firings, fending forth many darke greene fmooth leaves^ 
ycry much jagged or cut into diverfe parts, fomewhat like unto the leaves of the knobbed Cranes bill, but larger, 
each of the cuts being larger and broaderthan they, which are cut in againe, fo that the whole leafe being almoft 
round,is halfeafoote long,and neerefo broad alfo,fetupon a foote (lalke; an hand breadth long; from among 
which rife up, diverfe fmooth greene creilcd ftalkes, about two foote high, fpread into branches, having finer 
cut leaves on them, and fmall pale yellow flowers at the toppes, with many threds in the middle, like unto 
others, after which cometh a fmall round knappe or head of feede. 
The Place , 
All thefc forts of Crowfeete, doc grow in fields, meddowes, and arable grounds, many of them in our ownc 
land, efpecially the firft five forts; the reft by their titles may be underftood from whence they came. 
The Time, 
The firft and the great Candye fort are the earlieft in flower, which is about March and Aprill, and the 
and 14. are the lateft that flower of all the reft, which is not untill September, all the other in May 
June. 
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1 May and 
( The Names, 
Tt is called in Greeke £* 7 p*#8*,and there after in Latine Ranunculus, -nonfolum quiaranarum colorem folia mul» 
t.i, mitantur, fed pot ins quia inter folia rari£ ut plurimum degunt: in EngliJbvjc call them Crowfeete, rather than 
Frog wort after the Latine, from the divifions of the leaves, as I thinke, and therefore fomc call them Pedes 
ga li> according to Pliny, yet fome writers thought thejxi to be Qoronopus pes corvi of ‘Diofcorides^ and from thence 
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