Hepatica nobilis flore pleno rubro.
THe double red Hepatica is in all things like the last, but onely the colour of the flowers, which are as thick and double as any of the former, and of a fine pleasant pale red, inclining to Peach-colour.
These are the most valuable diversities that hitherto have come to our knowledge; there are others that bear single flowers of the same colours of the double ones, but little esteemed by any good Florists; yet by some are preserved, chiefly for that they bear seeds from whence varieties are expected, but I have not heard or seen any that have been so raised that are considerable. It is reported that the double white, and the double red have been raised from the seeds of the single kinds; I confess I have not seen either of them, and there∣fore can give no further assurance than the credit of a good Florist the reporter.
The double kinds flower about the middle of March, and the single ones a fortnight sooner; they must be planted like the Auri∣cula, in rich well-dunged ground, where they will thrive and bear plentifully, and may be increased by parting the roots after they are grown into several heads.