Tribe 3. The Theater ofTlants. C h a p. 5. 34^ 
Ammon cs maxirat Chalccdonict fios. 
The fiowcrof the great Windflower 
of Cottft ant inop le e 
Anemone tenuijolia fiore fimflici violaceo. 
The chinne leafed Wind flower with a Angle 
purple flower. 
Ranunculi palnfires &Aquatiles. Marfhand Water Crowfoote. .... 
Such forts of Crowfeete likewife fhould follow, and be joyned to the reft, as grow in Morifh grounds or 
Watery places, if 1 had not fet and propounded tomy felfe an other manner of method to follow m this Worke; 
I mull referre therefore all thofe that are defirous, to be fatisfied with the knowledge of them unto their proper 
place, where they fnall be intreated of all together, with all other forts of herbes, naturally growing in fuch 
places, which is the Claffis of Morifh and Watery plants. 
Chap V. 
Aiandrogoras Mandrake. 
Lthough I have declared in my former Booke the diverfities of Mandrake, both male and female, 
yet I thinke it not a miffe to remember them here againe, being a plant both of that worth and rarie. 
tic, and dangerous and profitable qualities therein, efpecially foporiferms whereof fome enduing 
plants doe partake. • 
i. Mandragoras mas vulgatior. The more ordinary male Mandrake. 
Mandrake thrufteth forth from the roote (which groweth fomewhat great and downe right, in 
fome but with one, in others with two, three or foure twines or branches, devided a little below the head or 
toppe,anddiverfe tirrali fibers befides,blackiih on the out fidc,& whitifh within,without other fhape of mans or 
womans parts, whatloever cunning knaves may forme other rootes by Arc*to be like what they pleale)many large 
leaves lying on the ground greater than any Beete leaves, whereunto TXiofcorides compareth them: from the 
middle of whom rife up fundry pale greenc flowers, made of five round leaves apeece, eacn handing on a fmali 
(lender foote dalke within a greene five leafed huske wherein afterwards is the fruit fet, being of the big- 
nefle of a reafonable Pippin, and as yellow as gold when it is thorough ripe with divers round whitifh flat 
feedes within it,and ofan heady or ftrong fluffing fcnt,this is the true defeription of the plant,and therefore thofe 
idle formes of the Mandrakes and Womancjrakes, as they are fooliflilyio called, tohich have beene expofed to 
publike view>both in ours and other lands and countries,are utterly deceitful! being the work of cunning knaves* 
onely. to get mony by their forgery : doe not mifdoubtof this relation no more than you would of any other 
plant fet downe in this booke, for it is the pla-ine truth whereon every one may relie. 
i, Afandragoras mas alt^r. Another male Mandrake. 
I fawin my Lor d IVoetton his Garden at Canterbury^ whereof WJohx Tradefcant h*d then the keeping an 
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