. The book of the peony. HISTORIE OF PLANTS. 831 4 ,fFcringfron,thcp^^^^^^ lcaucs,orrootcs: this plant ( 3 Tteon'm fcrmina mult if Ux Double red Ptioiiie. 4 raoniaf(rmhiii polyanthusflorCMlba, Tliedouble white L, ^Thcdtfcriptlon. There is another kinde of Peionie (called o\ DoIokh-m Pnonin famina altera, but of Pena Ttontt fennetitra: m Enghfh Maiden or VirginePcionic ) that is like vnto the common tcmalc Peionic,(auing that iiis Icaiies and flowers are inuch Iraaller, and t
. The book of the peony. HISTORIE OF PLANTS. 831 4 ,fFcringfron,thcp^^^^^^ lcaucs,orrootcs: this plant ( 3 Tteon'm fcrmina mult if Ux Double red Ptioiiie. 4 raoniaf(rmhiii polyanthusflorCMlba, Tliedouble white L, ^Thcdtfcriptlon. There is another kinde of Peionie (called o\ DoIokh-m Pnonin famina altera, but of Pena Ttontt fennetitra: m Enghfh Maiden or VirginePcionic ) that is like vnto the common tcmalc Peionic,(auing that iiis Icaiies and flowers are inuch Iraaller, and the ftalkcs lliortct 3 and bcdieth red 6owers,aiidfccde alio like the former. VVc hauc likewilc in our London gardens another Tort bearing flowers of a pale whitifh colour, very finglc/cfcmbbng the female wilde Pcionic,in other relpefts like the double white Peionie. â¢J- The f lice. All the forts of Pcionies do grow in our London gardens,except that double Peionie with white flowcrsjwhich we do cxpeift from tire lowe countries ot Flaundcrs. The male Peionie growcth «ilde vpon a conic bcrrie inBetfome, beirg in the parifh of South-. fleete inKcnt,twomilesfromGraiielendjandin thcgrounde foinctimes belonging to a Farmer there called Uhn Bradley. * The time. They flower inMay,the fcedc is ripe in luly. * Thenintes. The Peionie is called in Grceke ^mu: in Latine alfo Pxonit, and DnUifida . fhops PionU; in high Dutch )i>f aiiic;i : m low Dutch f^all blOCnirn: in French Pmoine: in bpanifh R,fr : in Enelilh Pcinnic: it hath alfo many baftardcnames, as Rofi , of fomc /,or Lunar:a P^conra: bicaufc it cureth thofc that hauc the falling ficknes, whom nJoft nicndocaU/,»«j;««,oiLunacickc. hi* ctiXaA Jd^hs Daajl^s: which agtccth with the female Peionie, The P^GE FROM GERARD'S HERBAL. PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND IN 1597 .â. ^-^^^:^-^r"^. ^^P' "^^^^^^t K^^ul^r'^^â " - '. Please note that these images are extracted
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