The single greene Primrose hath his leaues very like vnto the greater double Primrose, but smaller, and of a sadder greene colour: the flowers stand seuerally vpon long foot-stalkes, as the first single kinde doth, but larger then they, and more laide open, of the same, or very neare the same yellowish greene colour that the huske is of, so that at the first opening, the huske and the flower seeme to make one double greene flower, which afterwards separating themselues, the single flower groweth aboue the huske, and spreadeth it selfe open much more then any other single Primrose doth, growing in the end to be of a paler greene colour.
3. Primula veris flore viridante & albo simplici. The single greene and white Primrose.
The leaues of this differ in a manner nothing from the former, neither doth the flower but only in this, that out of the large yellowish green huskes, which contain the flowers of the former, there commeth forth out of the middle of each of them either a small peece of a whitish flower, or else a larger, sometimes making vp a whole flower, like an ordinary Primrose.
| 1 | Primula veris flore albo. The white Primrose. |
| 2 | Primula veris flore viridi & albo simplici. The green and white Primrose. |
| 3 | Primula veris flore viridi duplici. The double green Primrose. |
| 4 | Primula veris Hesketi. Master Heskets double Primrose. |
| 5 | Primula veris flore pleno vulgaris. The ordinary double Primrose. |
| 6 | Paralysis veris flore viridante simplici. The single green Cowslip. |
| 7 | Paralysis flore geminato odorato. Double Cowslips or hose in hose. |
| 8 | Paralysis inodora flore geminato. Double Oxelips hose in hose. |
| 9 | Paralysis hortensis flore & calice crispo. Curld Cowslips or Gaskins. |
| 10 | Paralysis minor angustifolia flore rubro. Red Birds eyen. |
| 11 | Paralysis hortensis flore pleno vulgaris. Double Paigles. |
| 12 | Paralysis fatuo. The foolish Cowslip or Iacke an Apes on horse backe. |
| 13 | Paralysis flore viridi roseo calamistrato. The double greene feathered Cowslip. |
4. Primula veris flore viridi duplici. The double greene Primrose.
This double Primrose is in his leaues so like the former single greene kindes, that the one cannot be knowne from the other vntill it come to flower, and then it beareth vpon euery stalke a double green flower, of a little deeper green colour then the flower of the former single kinde consisting but of two rowes of short leaues most vsually, and both of an equall height aboue the huske, abiding a pretty time in flower, especially if it stand in any shadowed place, or where the Sun may come but a while vnto it.
5. Primula veris Hesketi flore multiplici separatim diviso. Master Heskets double Primrose.
Master Heskets double Primrose is very like vnto the small double Primrose, both in leafe, roote, and height of growing, the stalke not rising much higher then it, but bearing flowers in a farre different manner; for this beareth not only single flowers vpon seuerall stalkes, but sometimes two or three single flowers vpon one stalk, and also at the same time a bigger stalke, and somewhat higher, hauing one greene huske at the toppe thereof, sometimes broken on the one side, and sometimes whole, in the middle whereof standeth sometimes diuers single flowers, thrust together, euery flower to be seene in his proper forme, and sometimes there appeare with some whole flowers others that are but parts of flowers, as if the flowers were broken in peeces, and thrust into one huske, the leaues of the flowers (being of a white or pale Primrose Colour, but a little deeper) seldome rising aboue the height of the very huske it selfe; and sometimes, as I haue obserued in this plant, it will haue vpon the same stalke, that beareth such flowers as I haue here described vnto you, a small flower or two, making the stalke seeme branched into many flowers, whereby you may perceiue, that it will vary into many formes, not abiding constant in any yeare, as all the other sorts doe.