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1 5 €:E‘L74”f€Mp4n71i51rl4iiimrvrz /aolofcrica. . 2. The fecontl fort ofFl0ure~gentle hath leaues et txoure-gentle. lll{C mm the former : the Pcalke is vpright , with a few {mall {lender leaues fet vpon it : £ll110l)gEVli!i.Cll do grow {mall clullers offcaly lloures_,of an OR-’{i‘T~ worne fcarlet colour : the feed is like the former. 3 It farre exceedeth my skill to defcribe the beauty and excellencie of this rare plant called sF[07'xZ7?107‘5 and I thinke the penlil of the molt curi- ous painter will beat a fl'ay,when he’ {hall come to fet it downe in his liuely colours. But to colour it after my belt manner , this I lay , F/ommor hath a thicke knobby root, whereon do grow many thretl- die firings 5 from which rifeth a thicke llalke, but tender and foft,which beginneth to dinide it felfe into fundry branches at the ground and fo vpward, whereupon doth grow many leaues, wherein doth conlifi his beauty: for in few wortls,euerie leafe re- fembleth in colour the molt faire and beatitifirrll feather of a Para: ef eciall thofe feathers that are mixed with mofl: funlilry colours, as a {tripe of reel, anda line ofyellow, a dafh ofwhite, and a rib of green colour,whicl1 I cannot with words fer forth; fuch are the fundry mixtures of colours that Nita ture hath befrowed in her greatell jolitie.,vpon this floure. The Home doth grow betweene the foot- fialks ofthofe leaues,and the body of the fialke or trunks , bale, and of no moment in refpeét of the leaues, being as it were little ch.-1 Hie husks ol’ai'i o. uerworneEt)awny col-:)ur : the feed is black, and {hi- tting like ixrriifnrsd horne. llthor mentions “ b Ihaue not feene this thus variegated as our Ila e is Emcne . E‘; ut_the leaues are comtnonly or three eploiirs; the lawcr part or that next the tom green“ it 1 6 middle recl,and the end yellow 501? elle the end recl,the middle yellow, St the rifgvp 311,8 talent hath a great many threds or firjngsiolf which his roots do conliil . From which Which ell’. I lclifi fat {talks crelled and firealred, exceeding finooth, and ofa fhinirig red colour; leaues Ofggl ‘"5 the gmufld to diuide themfelues into bran,ehes,-whereupon grow many great large dafht h 3 “kc 8Y5€I1_colou'r tending to redneffe, in {hew like thofe of the red Beet, flireakecl and_ thereofere and therewith red mixed with green. The flours grow alongll the i’talks,frorn the mid it lard t0,:1te1?e‘r°OtPC Sop in fhape like Pam'cnmz,that is, a great nu mh er olicriaihe con_fufed ears thrufk tlleverucét hem} Of? ffep purple Colour. Ican compare the (hape thereof to nothing (0 5_tlY 39 E9 lteionndaand b3or:§;c1:c::;up;1étt§: iI"ccil't matter as is the fame: V\rl}Cfl‘L"‘lIl is the {eed,iiico1ou-g ' i .

eqdeg rogfnhcysairtidffiltlgziargd leztues is much like the purple l:lOLll'C’{-§C{ltl6gl‘)Ut tlhe lieads are larger, mm on veluaet : this is 1161335 it were wouen one with another, lookitfg vierynuzeaiiiifiilly like to ens of Ital wh ya me to be founrl with vs, but for tl‘lCl3e4££l.iE1E$‘ at... is lzeptin the_Gar_— Y: ercas the women elteemed it not only for the comelineffe and neautious alperft,

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