Tribe.}. The Theater of Plants. Chap.4. 33^ 
Iiairy leaves, at the fitft being devided into diverfe peeces, fome whereof are round, and other fharpe pointed ; 
but thofe that rife up with the hairy ftalke, are devided into long and pointed peeces, and as it were prickly at 
the ends, but of an uneven length, fome being longer and (liorter than Others ; which ftalke being of an hand 
breadth high, and branched at the toppe, hath a fmall devided leafe, at the foote of every of thofe fmall branches, 
that beare yellow flowers of a meane bigneffe, like unto others of this fort, the whole plant is covered with red- 
difh loft haircs, that it feemeth as if it were reddifh it felfe. 
The TUcc, 
All thefe forts of Crowfeete grow upon the Mountaines, fome in Germany, fome on Mount I urn by Savoy, 
fomeby Mompelier , and others'in the Kingdomc of Naples, or on the 'Pyrenean l]jlls,none of them being knowne 
to grow wild in out countrie. 
The Time. 
They doe all of themflower about May and tune, and their feed: is ripe quickly after. 
The Names. 
The firftkinde which is of two forts, Clufius maketh to be his fecond kinde of Mountaine Crow foote, of two 
forts, but this is the later of his. Lobel calitth it Aconitum Batrackoides, and is the lift Ranunculus montanUj of 
Bauhinus in his Pinax which hee calleth Narcifciflore : the fecond is his third Mountaine Crowfoote, 
which he faith Dr. Penny a phyfltion of our London Colledge, fent him the figure and defeription, finding it on 
Mount Jura nere Geneva ; and is Bauhinus his fixt Ranunculus montanus htrjuttts purpurajeente flore , and faith it 
is the Aconitum candidum acaulon Dalechampij that Lugdnnenjis fer forth, but how can this with a high ftalke and a 
piirplifh ftower.be called Candidum and acaulon without a (talked know not: the third Chi fins nameth Ranun¬ 
culus Pyrenaus alboflore, whofe leaves as he faith are like unto thofe of flantairte, and therefore with mod Her- 
barifts is called now aday es,Ranunculus plantagmu folio, and fo doth Bauhinus, who likewife feemeth to thinke, 
that it may be the Ranunculus Phaviceus Myconi , for the refemblance of the long leaves, like unto thofe of the 
Date tree : but herein, in my opinion he is much miftaken, for that thfc roote of that Ranunculus is Bulbous, and 
therefore more likely to be another,as I (hall (hew you,by andby-.the fourth andfift have no other names thanare 
in their titles, being plants never fet forth by any before, but growing on one of the Alpes, which the inhabitants 
call Mcnt/enif.Sc fent the one by Monnel, & the other by Peliterm unto Dr.£cfe/:the fixt Babins (folumna finding 
Oil the hill lAoynicolo, in the Kingdome of Naples, calleth it Ranunculus leptomacrophyllon bulbofus, or Ranunculus 
bulbofus eramineus montanus , which * 2 ? auhinus thereupon calleth Ranunculus gramineo folio bulb ofits, and as 1 think 
doth more nearely refemble, the Ranunculus Phaniceus Myconi, fet forth in the great Herball called Lugdunenfis , 
which lice faith groweth plentifully at the foote of the hills of Santa Maria Monteferato, and the places there 
abouts, and as he faith there, hath bulbous routes and long narrow leaves, and fo hath this, but the former hath 
neither. The feventh and eight with the other of the fame kinde are likewife plants never written of by any 
other before, and therefore their titles muff (land as they doe.The ninth Babins Columna found likewife in the 
lulls (fampoclarenfes and tAsyuico/i, and calleth it Ranunculus montanus Leptophy/los Alpbodeli radice which is very 
like unto that with Afpbodi/l rootes,which I have fet forth in my former Book,having leaves like the fmall Thali- 
Drum, and a white flower but this hath yellow, which as I there hiA,LugduncnJis fetteth among the umbelliferous 
, plants, and calleth it OenxnthecA'liconi,beciafe he finding it on the rockie or ftony hills in Spaine, referred it unto 
. Oenauthe,in regard of the rootes;but the flowers and feededemonftrate it plainely to be no luch plant,but a piaine 
i Crowfoote,asboth by the companion and mine o wne infpeftion (having had it growing in mine owne Gar- 
- den many yearcs, and feene it with others) may truely be teftified: The tenth Babitts Columna found likewife 
|, on the contrary colder fide of thofe hills eAEyuicoli, and called it, asitis in the title: the laft fixe forts have theit 
names in their titles, as "Bauhinus calleth them in his Pinax and Prodromes, 
The Vertues. 
Moll of thefe forts of Crowfeete being hot and fharpe in tafte, and exulcerating theskinne, no Idle than many 
of the former, cannot be but of the fame quality with them, and although there hath not fo many and manifeit 
trials, bcenemrde ofthefebeing mod: of them but of late invention, yet no doubtbut they may be applied, for 
f the fame purposes; according to their degree, in being more or leffe fharpe than others ; onely the fourth fort 
| that hath leaves like Betony, for theforme fakeoftheflowets,beingjoyned tothis family, as is laid inthedef- 
criptiou, hath no luch hot fharpe or exulcerating propertie,but as is there faid being fomewhat bitter,and excee- 
I ding aflringent in tafte,is held afluredly to be friendly to the ftomacke,as other things that are of the fame qualitie 
[' of bittetnefle and aftritftion; which heipc today and drie up the defluxions of humors, be they cold or hot that 
fall from the head upon the Ptomackeandlungs, and to preferve them from putrefaiftioncaufed thereby. 
Ifanmculi hortenjis, Garden Crowfeete. 
T Hofe Crowfeete that are chiefeflynourfed up in Gardens, fhould follow next, but that I(|ave already 
fliewed them in my former Booke,feleifting all thofe that beare flowers of any beautie, out of all the reft of 
theTribes or Families, to dote that Garden with all as was mod fit and proper: whofoever therefore are ddi- 
rousto fee their diferiptions or know farther ofthem, I muftreferre them to that Booke wherein they may ree 
andreade the varieties* there expreffed, The Anemones alfo or Wind do wers and PulfatilLvs as being kindes of 
' Crowfeete their fharpe tade and exulcerating qualitie declaring the fame, fhuold beare a place here with the 
red, but that they are all likewife deferibed aforehand, yetlthmkeic no: a miffe to give you fome figures of 
them, to beautifie this worke and to pleafe your eyes, , 
<3 g 2 Ranunculi 
