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C H P» 1:28. Of (‘ti/at/oian Violet, or e/{zzmmne ﬁe/1» oure.

q; The Dcfcrzfptioza.

{Wong number of the hafe Gentians there is a fmal plant,which is late before it comiﬁﬁih

£4‘='_ vp,h-airing ftalkes a {pan high,and fometimes higher, narrow leaues like vnto Time, {€15 by. ' ccruples about the ﬁalkes by certaine diP£3IlC€S': long narrow ﬂoures growing at the IOP 0

ftelkes, like a cup called a Beaker,wide at the top, and narrower toward the bottomepf a d€€P“ hiew coiour tending to purple,with certaine white threds or chiues in the bottome : the fiOl"€ 3: the motrth or brim is fine cornered before it be opened,but when it is opened it appeareth with ﬁ“°;, elifts or pleats. The whole plant is of a bitter taﬂe, which ;plainely {heweth it to be a kind“ ‘C Wilde Gentian.The root is mall, and perifheth when it hath perfeeted his feed,and recouerfith ”

L felfe hy falling of the fame.

Pitt/mzommtée. Q] The Place. Calathian Violet, ' .

It is found fometimes in Medowespftentimcﬁ 1‘: vntilled places. Itgroweth vpon Long-ﬁeld dOW“§ in Kent , neere vntoavillage called Longﬁeld’ Grauefend, vpon the Chalkie cliffes neere Grew“ Hythe and Cobham in Kent,and many other place?’ I: likewife groweth as you ride from Sugar-loafc 11‘ vnto Bathe,in the Weft-country.

313 This plant I neuer found but once, and ‘hit was on a wet Moorilh ground in Lincoln lhite,tW 0 6 three miles on this fide Caf£er,and as I rcmembﬁhth place is called Netleton Moore. Now I fufpefﬁ 51’. our Author knew it not 5 ﬁrihbecaufe he defcr1bC5 with leaues likevnto Time, when as this hath 1%’; narrow leaues more like to Hylfop or R_ofemafl" 3 condly, for that hee faith the root is fmalland Pcbris iheth when as it hath perfected the feed:wherea5 fies hath a lining, ﬁringie and creeping root. BC‘-‘ ' this feldome or neuer growes on chalkie Cilifeso on wet: Moorifh grounds and Heaths : wherefo n_ fufpeét out Author tooke the fmall Autumne 6f {E tian (defcribed by me in the fourth place of the 3 Chapter) for this here treated of. :t

qr The Time. The gallant flouies hereof bee in their bra“ about the end of Auguilgand in September.

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This is thought to be I/ésio Calatbiatta of Ruelliza, yet not that of Pliny 5 and thofe that 396:}

to know more of this may haue recourfe to the twelfth chapter of the ﬁrft booke of the 2 . P57”? ‘Ce Dodon. his Latine Herball, whence our Author tooke thofc words that was formerly in thi5 P13 H; though he did not well vnderﬁand nor expreffe them 1: . it is called Viola Autnmmxltk, or AU‘?‘m - Violet,and fcemeth to be the fame that Vzzlerim Cordw doth call Pawmammrbc, which he f3“ 6 named in the Germane tOI'lgllC,Il.,ol\l1gB1]bIutﬂ2t}, or Lung—ﬂoure:in Engli{h,Autumne Bel—ﬁ9‘” Calathian Violets,ancl offome,Harueit-bels. _ _ ‘qr T/3e Temperature. M 9, This wiide Felwoort or Violet i_s m.T_etnperaturc hot, fomewhat like in faculty to G3“: whercofit is a kinde,but far weaker in operation. ' T I/e V ermes. M1. The later Phyfitions hold it to be effeettrallagainllz peﬂiilent difeafegand the bitings Md _

lgings of venomous bealts.

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CH A1’. 109. 0/ Venus Lao/gyingégllaﬂe; qr T/jeD‘efcrz7ptz';oni

1 BEﬁdes the former Belﬂoures there is likewifea certaine other which is low and little; the {talks whereof are tender, two fpannes long,diuided into many branches molt com- the G66 .mhonly lyingvpon the ground : the leaues about theilalks are little, lleightly nicltedin Md 3 -‘hes’ . t e floures are fmall,of abright p_urplc.colour tending‘ to bl4;ewneli'e,yery beautifuhwith Eilnottthes like broad bells,hauing a white chiue or thred in the middle. Fhe ﬂoursin the day _:;E;§ta re gvldif open,and about the fetting of the fun are ihutvp and clofed faﬂ together in line cor-_. H M‘ 1,35 I eyare before their hrft opening,and_ as the other Bell-ﬂoures are. The roots be very {len- ' "j__f‘>3d_ pﬁrlfh when they haue perfe<9ced their feed. Q A _ p _ me‘ L2» 9 There is ariother,wl1ich from a ftnall and wooddy root fendeth vp a ﬂraight lialk,fome- '5-‘:1 a two or three inches,yet otherwhilc a_ foot high, when as it lights 1l‘ltO good ground. This ere!-’..;' crelted and hollow, hauing little longifh leaucs crumpled or ﬁnuated about the edges fer :and out of the hofome of thofc leaues,towardsthe top of the lialke and _fomtitn‘es lower, iittle branches hearing little winged cock; at the tops ofwhich in the midi‘: ofﬁue little gnreefie leaues (‘sand {mall purple ﬂoures of little or no_bjeat'ity .:which being pal’t,the cods become “Charger , and containe in them a frnall yellowifh feed, and they {till retaine at their tops the

“C lfmgifh green leaues that incompaffed the ﬂoure. The plant is an Annual like as the fortniernt

I S pecalum Venerik.

' 1: 2 ispeculrmz I/‘mart? mimu. Venus Looking-glal'f’ct. ‘

I _ Codded Corn Violet.

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V it go , ‘ u . A. 775:: Place , _ p 1 field ginrvinegdilig (?o1?l‘§h@d fieldsarnong the come in a plientifull and fruitfull foile. I found it in other pvlacerg theireabnouy §;recnhithe,as I went from thence toward Dartford in Kent, and in many" Aer-e they Comm oft.‘ ut pot elfewhertgfrom whencel brought ofthe feeds for my garden,’ i That whpichpi h rem clues from ,V_€are to Yeare by filling ofthelfeeda. _ is ere ﬁgured and-defcri-bed in the ﬁtft pl-’ac‘e lneuer found gjro'w.ing in Eng.« ’ W0 o 2' i'and’,=