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Of the HlfiO1“lC of Plants. Li B. 2.

woort, but altogether lell'er,and not fo hairy : from the bofome of which lcaues {hoot forth V§YY beautifull floures bell fa{hion,ofa bright purple colour, with a fmall peflle or clapper in the mid- dl , nd in other refpefis it is like the precedent.

E a This from a wooddy and wrinkled root of a pale purple colour fends forth many rough crefted {talks of fome cubit high ,which are vnorderl y fet with leaues,Iong,rough,and fnipt lightly about their edges, being of adarke colour on the vpper fide, and of a whitifli on their vnder part.

At the tops of the Pralkes grow the fioures,being many,.-and thicke thruft together,white of coloufa _

and diuided into flue or feuen parts, each floure hauing yellowifh threds, and a pointall in their middlcs. It floures in Augull, and was lirfl: fet forth and defcribed by Pam: in his defcriptiono

Mount Baldus. :1: q; The Place.

The firftdefcribed and fometimes the fecond growes very plentifully in the low Woods and

I Hedgerowes of Kent, about Canterbury, Sittingborne, Grauefend, South-fleet,and Greenehyth:

efpecially vnder Cobham Parke pale in the way leading from Southfleet to Rochefier, at Eltham about the parke there not farre from Greenewich ., in rnofl of the paitures about Watford and B0‘ (hey, fifteene miles from London.

it 3 The third was kept by our Author in his Garden,as itis alfo at this day preferucd in the Garden of M’ Parlcinfrin .- yet in the yeere r 62 6, I found it in great plenty growing wilde vpon the bankes of theRiuer Oufe in Yorke(hire,as I went from Yorke to vifite Selby the place whereas I was borne,being ten miles from thence. 1:

The fourth groweth in the Medow next vnto Ditton ferric as you goe to Wind for-c, vpon the chalky hills about Gremflhithe in Kent ; and in a Held by the high way as you goe from thence f° Dartford 5 in I-lenningham Parke in Effex 3and in Sion Medow neere to Brandford, eight mil€5 from London. ' ~

The fifth groweth on mount Baldus in Italy.

The Time.

All the kindes of hell floures doe Home and flourifh from May vntill the beginning ofAuguf’t» except the laft,which is the plant that hath beene taken generally for the Calathian Violet, wliic V floureth in the later end of September 5 notwirhfianding the Calathian Violet or Auturnne violet is of a mofl; bright and pleafant blew or Azure col0ut,as thofe are of this kinde,although this plan‘ fometimes changeth his colour from blew to whitenelfe by fome one accident or other.

qr T12: Names.

I 2 Throtewoort is called in Latine, Ceruicaria, and Ceriiimria major : in Greeke : rruxnw" ‘ Of InOl’£,V'ZJul4ri4 .- of Fuc/ifim , Ct1mpd7¢tIlA.' in Dutch, igaltccuyt : in Englifh, Canterburie bell’! I—1I]asl<evfvoort, Throtewoort, or Vwila woort, of the venue it hath againfl; the paine and fwelliflg I CI'€O . S ‘

I , 3 This is the Trzicbelium mziju; Belgmim of Lo6el,and the fame (as I before noted) that 0”’ .Puth0t f0}r]me_rly }i1'et forth by the name of Tmcéclium Gigmeum,fo thatl haue put them as you mall ee toget er in t e title of the plant. ,

’ This is the Tmcizeliimz mima of D odonam, Loécl, and others : the Ceruicaria minor of T aéerfid‘ montanuogand Vvnlaria exigua of Tragm .- Our Author gaue this alfo another figure and defcription by the tram? ofVZl;i_C;il4t@i4mz,not knowing that it was the lafl faue one which he had defcribed bl t e name 0 Tim :2 mm mmm. 1:

A {I '1‘ be Temperature.

Thefe plants are cold and dry,as are moi’: of the Bell-floures.

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The Antletlts ftilr any thing that we know haue not mentioned, and therefore not fet down: .899; Thi“§°°”°°”““8 ‘ C Vfiftues of thefe Bell-floures: notwithftandin wee haue found in the. 11"?‘ writers, as alfo Of our owne experience, that they are excellent gogod againfi the inflammatiofl of the throate and I/W14 Of Alm0I1d5;a11d allmanner of cankers and vlcerations in the mouthsi the

mouth and throat be galgaiifed and Waflie_d with the decoétion of them : and they are of all O‘1"3rrv'“1 lierbes the chiefe and P‘m.°‘P3“ [0 be p}It into lotions, or wafhing waters, to injeét into’ the pF1“3¢f parts of man or woman,being boyled with hony and Allom in water,with fame white wine. v

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Of thel-Iiftorie of Plants.

Cir AP. I17. 0] ‘Pe4cb»éel/r mm’ Steeliltulée/Ir’. 1]‘ ‘I lie De_['c7ti‘Dti0n.,

He Peach-leaned Bell-floure hath b f’ ’ ‘ ~ ' »~ - -

great bufh out of the ground, likr:at%leefc:taiIileJ£It‘)fctrl1c<): I‘)‘[:‘aaCIlll-atr1E;lCIf)2r§11Oel1au\clVsl,lFlgngF

“'hite,and foi,Pt)lfe‘iraiId({: mg ctébifghigh ’ 310%“ the flalke grow many Homes like bgells,lf<C)ni‘éiii:Iie Oithelrikindes ;and thefepaafri ;greadifatifiiwtiofgrtgdtlhfgfdbflihhaahnzit?igg foadeiffi asfthdey Ohhc

e - ~ _ _ t e re . T ' f I 2 a1mtpcipEriCs,;r:idkthg mat a tuft of laces or lmall firings‘. . y 6 Ce is man like the other lafl: 5%,: ;1feI:E1!(1)- figure hath a great number of faire Blewifh or Watcher floures, ich are gammmd from th I16 ghrowmg vpon goodly tall {reins two cubits and a halfe high Placed. his whole lam, 4° ‘°Pg_ I :_ Plant v_nt0 the ground with leaues like Beets, diforderly the pyangmany dm Sofa s _el3lt(ce_e _ing ull of milke, infomuch as if you do.but breake one leafe of imlke am) : Hkewifg the kl’!!! y)ll]1lCC'V‘Vlll fall vpon the ground. The root is very great,and full of Whole ppm, is altoueth bnops w erein the feed lhould be are empty and void,of feed, fo that the b er arren,and muft be increafed with flipping of his root.

I Campanulapcrfigwlgd, Peach-leaned Bell-fioure.

2 Campmmla laffefienrgyramidalirg Steeple milky Bell-floure, ‘

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e hath many round leaues very like thofe of the common field Violet,‘ I, among which rife vp fmall {lender ficms, diforderly fet with many grallie pm“ e S1533; The fmall Item is diuided at the top into fundry Iittlebranches, h‘ 4 The yellow Be‘); flew oures be1l—fath_ion. The rootis fmall and threddY._ . , Tls weake and tender Ra-“(cure is a very beautifull plant ofan handfull high, beating at the topagf ‘e ewes and mots are 15?: molt pleafant floures B.el-fa{hion, of a faire and bright yellow colony, is plant are not {O mundi e the precedent, fauingthat the leaues that grow next to the ground as the former. 1 Certainly our Author in this place meant to (‘es foréfi

‘he Cam 1 1 . . . ueg Y9“? :1: ggltg fifiéfigg flaire wluéililr, defcribed in the Aduerffpdg. I77. and tligéfogc 1 haue gi.

3 Th I-X3 W ZEW leaues like tho e0n d0 grow-

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