¶ The Description.
1 MArsh Marigold hath great broad leaues somewhat round, smooth, of a gallant greene colour, sleightly indented or purld about the edges: among which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vp thicke fat stalkes, likewise greene; whereupon doe grow goodly yellow floures, glittering like gold, and like to those of Crow-foot, but greater: the root is small, composed of verie manie strings.
2 The smaller Marsh Marigold hath many round leaues spred vpon the ground, of a darke greene colour: amongst which rise vp diuers branches, charged with the like leaues: the floures grow at the toppes of the branches, of a most shining yellow colour: the root is also like the for∣mer.
3 The great Marsh Marigold with double floures is a stranger in England, his natiue Coun∣trey should seeme to be in the furthest part of Germanie by the relation of a man of those Coun∣tries that I haue had conference withall the which hee thus described: it hath (saith hee) leaues, roots, and stalkes like those of our common sort, and hath double floures like those of the garden Marigold, wherein consisteth the difference.
‡ Camerarius writes iust contrarie to that which our Authour here affirmes; for hee saith, In Anglia sua sponte non solum plenis, sed oderatis etiam floribus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 offert. But I feare that both our