Flora, seu, De florum cultura, or, A complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist by John Rea, Gent.

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Title: Flora, seu, De florum cultura, or, A complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist by John Rea, Gent.
Author: Rea, John, d. 1681.
Publication: London :: Printed by J.G. for Richard Marriott ...,; 1665.
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Subject terms: Floriculture -- Early works to 1800.; Gardening -- Early works to 1800.; Fruit-culture -- Early works to 1800.
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Helleborine major sive Calceolus Mariae.

OUr Ladies slipper cometh up with divers stalks about half a yard high, compassed at the bottom with broad green leaves, like those of white Hellebor, but smaller, and not plained; at the tops of the stalks come forth one, two, and sometimes three flowers, one above another, upon small short foot-stalks, with a small leaf at the foot of each: the flowers in form are Oval, the upper part hollow, and the lowerround and swelling; at the hollow part are two small slippets, wherewith at the first the hollowness is covered, but after open and stand apart from each other; these flowers are in some of a pale yellow, and in others more rare of a brown colour, tending to purple; the roots are composed of many dark brown strings, inter∣laced one within the other, lying under the upper crust of the earth, and not deeper, as those of the former kinds.