6. Auricula Vrsi flore obsoleto magno. The Spaniards blush Beares eare.
This great Beares eare hath as large leaues as any other of this kindred whatsoeuer, and whitish or mealy withall, somewhat snipt about the edges, as many other of them are: the flowers stand at the toppe of a strong and tall stalke, larger then any of the other that I haue seene, being of a duskie blush colour, resembling the blush of a Spaniard, whose tawney skinne cannot declare so pure a blush as the English can; and therefore I haue called it the Spaniards blush.
7. Auricula Vrsi flore rubello. Scarlet or light red Beares eares.
The leaues of this kinde are very like the leaues of the first purple kinde, but that they are not so thicke; of a little paler greene colour, and little or nothing snipt about the edges: the flowers are of a bright, but pale reddish colour, not halfe so deepe as the two last with white circles in the bottomes of them, in other things this differeth not from others.
8. Auricula Vrsi roseo colore. The Rose coloured Beares eare.
We haue another, whose leafe is a little mealy, almost as large as any of the former, whose flowers are of a light red colour, very neare the colour of an ordinary Damaske Rose, with a white eye at the bottome.
| 1 | Auricula Vrsi flore purpureo. Purple Cowslips or Beares eares. |
| 2 | Auricula Vrsi flore tannetto. Tawney Beares eare. |
| 3 | Auricula Vrsi flore & folio Boraginis. Blew Beares eares with Borage leaues. |
| 4 | Auricula Vrsi flore carneo. Blush Beares eare. |
| 5 | Auricula Vrsi maxima lutea flore eleganti. The greatest faire yellow Beares eares with eyes. |
| 6 | Auricula Vrsi altera flore luteo. The yellow Beares eare. |
| 7 | Auricula Vrsi crinis coloris siue flore fusco. The haire coloured Beares eare. |
| 8 | Cortusa Matthioli. Beares eare Sanicle. |
9. Auricula Vrsi flore cæruleo folio Boraginis. Blew Beares eares with Borage leaues.
This plant is referred to the kindred or family of the Beares eares, onely for the forme of the flower sake, which euen therein it doth not assimilate to the halfe; but because it hath passed others with that title, I am content to insert it here, to giue you the knowledge thereof, and rather to satisfie others then my selfe with the place thereof: the description whereof is as followeth: It hath diuers broad rough hairy leaues spread vpon the ground, somewhat like vnto the leaues of Borage for the roughnesse, but not for the largenesse; the leaues hereof being somewhat rent in some places at the edges: from among these leaues rise vp one, or two, or more brownish, round, and hairy stalkes, a span high or thereabouts, bearing at the toppes three or foure flowers a peece, consisting of fiue large pointed leaues, of a faire blew or light azur colour, with some small yellow threads in the middle, standing in small greene cups: the roote is long and brownish, hauing many small fibres annexed vnto it.