1380 Chap.28. 
Tbeatrum Botanicum . 
T RiBEl' 
—-r— ■ „ ’ in his ObfcrvatTons, the other homrirn 'Selim, each of them at- 
1 eony having two wi ’ - ✓> ^ r u ere 2r owcth in great plenty, a white Peony,and Honorius Bcllw, that 
tetling that m the but yet is a prcmi/exaJox donbtfull fort, and yet 
iincetnen time w v But Cememmu faith thatthat which pafleth under that ti- 
«,«*.*» •«. “VTr “d ,lt r 
unlbcucof 
any that hath K.but words tinpromifem. The doubtfull female Peony. 
Becaufe the leaves of this Peony have fonrx refemblance to thofe ofthe male.it caufed Label to entitle it Pr.- 
' 'behold what urowes aboveground, you would fay »t were a male, butifthe 
mifcMfivc ncu , y g, y h j, pl - ma de this the mas, but Dodonxm referreth it to the other fort, 
rootes underground, a alt era, whereby it is plaine that or.e of them was decei- 
which hath .i,; n i, eatr anfp’ofition of the figures in Lobcl.tox that figure in Mels /«»«,that beareth the 
hi f h hecfakhwas mo ft common with them, as it is with us, 
t,t.e tramfc** is the fi " ^ich I thinke doth r.ecrer refemble the leaves ofthe male, let the judi- 
thc other being . g ( k it j t be erronious.for although Bmbmus taketh 'Dodonstu his famim alte - 
cious confidcr f ^ O not finde it fo with thofe plants.that ate the mod common female in 
r«, to be the ^ ol divers forts of the male.and of divers colours, and the white one 
ourCountiy.an • ■ , v kichhc callcth P cornet mat ftore alba \ butas Dedoneus flieweth, Diofcondes doth 
hkewi fe, among t ’ h e male and female Peony, firlf by the leaves, the male to be whole and not divi- 
ri’d' 1 h y r IT i unto thofe of the W allnut tree, and fecondly in the rootes, that they arc (ingle and not gtanduleus, 
as is*the ( male,which truth will utterly confound both Be]ler m 4Bauhmm opinions therein and Label, and C»- 
merarttts alfo.to make any premifeua, all the other forts (hewing themfclves to be females by their rootes. 
6 Pconia femiXA ft alpha pre tfr plena,ex femme port* plem rubrl vuloArtt not*. 
Certai-ie finale and double female Peonyes, that fprang with Clufms of the feede of the double red. 
cIuGhi faith that having in fome yearcs feede from the ordinary double red Peonyfwhich isnotufuailj bee 
f I hr arrl ithio three veares he had plants that bore flowers, fome fingle and fome double: of the (ingle 
^Msone e bore n fioweK for colour mod like unto the mother, but was fingle, confiding onely of fix ^ cavea ’ «!** 
ordinal V female doth : Another bore a larger flower of eight leaves, whofe colour was of a deeper red. drawing 
fome what to blackncffe : A third bore 1 double flower,as great as the mother plant or greater, and of the fame 
, , .. r 1 L J „ s h- faith another like the mother plant in leaves,fcc. whole flower wasdouble.butlcffer 
and noi io 'hike of leaves, the colour whereof was oVa deepered, being neere the h.gneffe of the double 
blnfh.having fome blatke veines in thofe leaves that grew m the middle. 
T£Ovia ftmtnn vulgiris fore fimplici. 
The nrHin.-irv finale female Peony. 
r p<ton\a fteminafore pleuo purpureo. 
