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Separate into.fiveparts,as firflittto famfirchideifivcTeftinlesomirm, Doggesftones. Secondly into Orchids 
fivcTefticulos murimh , l-oo!es ftones.Thirdly into Tragarcbiiei five TcSiUttlot biremos vet'faiths '.Stinking Orchi, 
or Goates [tones. Fourthly into Serapiadas velTefanlos vulpinosfioxi {tones. And fifthly into Triorchidei mt 
Tefiiculo, oiorMos, Sweete Cullions or Hones, in which fiveRank.s alhhe forts of Orchides, that have round 
rootes.are comprehended. And then there are the handed Orehides , to be entreated oflalliy, which are (b cal- ' 
led becanfe their roptes are flat like hands, with the ends of the finge s cut fhort of, which (hall be wholly decla¬ 
red together, not making any divilion of parts in them, and firft ofthe fintfircb ides Dogs [tones after the figures 
of the true S/ityrion or Tulip*. ‘ b 
Cynoforchis TeUkulusitmisfPrimusOrdo. Doggfcs Stones the firft Ranke. 
T His kmde of Orcbit isdiftinguifhed into two forts, the one hath flowers ‘refembling hoodes. with (mall 
things hanging otic of thcmidllof them, the other hath flowers like unto the bodies of men,’ with their 
armes and legs cut fhorn of. 
I* Cynoforcloii major Utifolht. The firft great Dogges (tones. 
The firft of thefc greater Dogs ftxmcs hath five orfixe broadleaves on the ground, among which riletb up a 
round grecne ftalke,halfe a yard high, bare or without leaves, or but one or two fmaller Handing below, at the 
coppe whereof ftandeth a fpiked head of purplilh flowers, fet thicke and cloft together, made like unto open p riaa 
hoods ,from the middle whereof hangeth downe, a Imall body,as it were of a Dog,or other fuch creature, being of Dod.Lv.gd> 
a pale purple colour it ielfe, fpotted with deeper purple (pots and lines, after which come fomewhat long and 
round final 1 huskes, containing therein rather imall d uft then feedc it is fofmall: the rootc is compoled of two 
round white bulbcs/et together Hke the two Hones of a dog, with long fibres at the heads of them, one fome¬ 
what higher fometimes then anothcr^nd alwayes one of them which is the higher, is firme full and bard, the o« 
thcr lancke,vyrinckled and foft,which wafteth away to nothing,leaving the firme roote, which (o abideth all the 
Winter,and in the Spring another fpringeth and encreafeth from the fide ofthe old one, and then that beginneth 
to grow lancke, while the other new one encreafeth. 
2 . Cynoforch# major latifolia altera. The great purple Dogs ftone6. 
This other greater fort hath fomewhat narrower leavesthen the former , the fpiked head of flowers, Seeundt 
is neither fo long nor fo thicke, and the flowers of a whitifh purple colour, marked with fome purple fpots and 
lines more inward,formed like open hoods,and fmall bodies hanging forth like the former, the feede and rootes 
are like the former. 
3 • Cjpoforchh major ffrica compatta. The greater pale purple flowred Docs ftones. 
The leaves of this are fomewhat narrower then the laft, and fometimes fpotted, the ftalke alfo is fomewhat 
lower with Icav'es upon it, and the fpiked head fhort and clofe,with the like flowers for forme, thickc fetto°e- Minora!- 
ther but fomewhat lefle,and of a whitifh purple colour,fpotted alfo,the rootes alfo arc like the former. 3 maUb, 
4. Cynofcrcbk 
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