40a Chap .26. 
1 beatrum 'Botanicum, 
Gentian* majores. The greater Gentians. 
Centianamajorflorepurpureo . Great purple Gentian. 
T He great purple Gentian, is very like the great yellow Gentian in mod things, having a great thickebrow- 
ni(h yellow roote, parted into two or three great branches; with great fibres at them but a little more hard 
and woody of as bitter a tafte as the other, which fendeth forth at the i'cverall heads thereof, many faire broad 
three ribbed darke greene fhining leaves, fo like unto the other, that it is fomewhat hard to diftinguifl, t i, em 
many ofthefe heads from among the leaves, fhoote forth thickeand flrong fialkes, three or foure foote high’ 
with divers joynts on them, and two leaves at them, one againft another : towards the toppes whereof come 
forth the flowers compaffing the ftalkes, at two or three of theuppermoft Joints, with two leaves apeece under 
them, like as in the other, which are not laid open, ftarre fafhion, like the other, but abide clofe and hollow, the 
brimmes onely divided into fixe or more round parts, of a purple colour, but paler at the bortome of them, where 
they arc fpotted with purple Ipots on the infide, having fomany yellowifh threds in the middle, as the'flower 
hath corners, (landing about a long greene by forked head, which growing ripe is the feede velfcll, and containeth 
there in fuch like flat brownifh feedcs as the other, but fomewhat lefle. 
a. Gentian* major flare alho. Great Gentian with white flowers. 
This white flowred Gentian is very like the former, and the great yellow kinde, not much leffer and lower in 
any part than the former, whole flowers are not purple but pure white, and hollow like the other, without any 
fpots in them, this making the whole difference betweene them. ' 
3. Gentian*majorJlore pallidapunBato. Great paleyellow (pottedGentian. 
This fpotted great Gentian, is in all things alfo like the firfl, but in the flowers, which are ofa duskifh pale 
yellowcolour, fpotted both within and without with very many blacke fpots. F 
4- Gentian* major flore ctrttleo. Great Gentian with blew flowers. 
And this alfo differeth neither in greatnefle offtalkes, leaves and flowers,nor in the manner of growing, but 
in the colour of the flower, which is of a blew colour. s ’ 
5. Gentiana Afi/epiadhsfolia. Swallowort Gentian. 
This is diferibed in my former Booke. 
The Place. 
All thefe forts grow in many places on the Mountaines of Germany, and in other places,but are not to be found 
fo ufually as the great yellow. 
The Time. 
Thefe doe all flower in Iune or there abauts. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greek Ttfluhn in Latine,and fo like wife Qenti ana,a GemioIlljricrumrcgeprimZ inventore^s Di- 
, Gtntaaa major ntjufque eoloru. 
Tft? greater Gentian of any ef the colour $ 0 
Gentiana Crucial a. 
CsoiTeworte Gentian. 
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