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Show 628 Cuap.74, Theatrum Botanicum, TRIBE.5. 3. Hesperis Pannonica inodora, Vnfavory Dames Violetsof Hungary. Lychnis, Campions; and longer thenthe other, and waved about the edges, the loweft having footeftalkes, and thofe above none, Have given you a dofen forts of Campions in my former booke which are all delightiome and reft doc,and {melleth pretty {weetealfo, butof adeeper red colour then they : the cods with feede in themare pleafant plantsfic for that worke, being A Garden of Pleafure : there are manyother forts to bee entreated of which fhall be here exhibited, even tothe leatt fort which is like Moffe upon the ground, that fo you may underftandall the varieties thar nature hath fhewed us, and becanfe two forts with double flowers,are come to our knowledgefince the publication of my booke, which elfe fhould have beene therein inferted, and may bee at the next Edition. I will begin with them firft in this Chapter, and addeunto them a finaller fort of:fingle not there expreffed, and of thereft in the other following, yet give you the like the other and perifhafter feede time moft ufuually, yet fometimes abiding a third yeare of it felfe, bat moft certainely if it be hindered from bearing too many branches and flowers, by cutting then downe before they goe to flower, F api : §. Hesperis [ylvcftris anguftifolia flore parve, Small purple floured Dames Violets. Theleaves ofthis {mall Hesferis are narrower and longer pointed thenin the commonforts, leffe alfo and deepelier cut in or dented on the edges : it hatha ftalke about halfea yard high, branched toward rough the toppe Figure of the {ingle kinde and declare the properties, withvery {mall flowers thereon,ofa purplifh colour, fo that one of thefe fowere, are not much bigger then one ofthe leaves of the flowerof the ordinary ;the pods that follow are long but much fmaller. 6. Hefperis fylveftris latifolio flore albo parvo, Small white lowred Dames Violets. of the Hefperis Syriaca, and drying tafte, J have given you onely a leafe hereof, and a few flowers at chefides Because both the Lescoium Syriacumand Melancholinm,that Uhave fet forth already in my other booke, as there callthem, partake more withthis Aefperis then with Lexcoinm, in that their leayes are greene, and notI white like them ; and in thar the feede in the pods ofthe Adelancholinm are not flat butlong and round like HeSperts. I have given you here the figure thereof, and with the Syriacum a leafe and fome flowers of the laft : Imighthave multiplyed the forts of Hefperis unto you as Bashinus doth if I would follow him, who makeththat Lencoinm alterum faxatile obfoleto flore of Columna doubtedlyisthe to be ofa different fort from the ALelanc holium, whichune fame, and the Hesferis Syriaca or Leucoinm Syriacum, of Camerarius, and Clufins to bee the Leucoinm Melancholinm alfo,whichcertainely alfo are differing plants, and even Bauhinss himfelfe would fo have acknowledged,if ever he had feene both the plants, The Place, The firlt was as I fayd before fent me firft our. of France, which perifhing 1 had both it againeand the fecond alfo by the liberalitie of Mr.D¥. 4nthony Sadler a PhyGitian in Exeter,fonto the elder Sadler an Apothecary there whobothaffirmed unto me for certaine,that the white one wasin many mens Gardens in the Weft parts, and the purple alfo althoughnot foplentifull, before my booke came forth, but ftom whence the originall of hen cameisnot knownes the third as C/w/iw faich groweth in the skirts of the vineyards at the foote of the hills, that are neare Vienna in Auftria: the fourth groweth as Baxhinu from Burferus relareth it, among the flony places in Proevace that ate moyftned with {prings: the fiftalfo neare MMompelier, in the watery gravell grounds on 4ortus Dei ; the lalt giew in mygarden from Paseevel from fome friend but Lhave forgotten who, ; The Time, Theyall doe flowerin the Summer Moneths of Ive and Iuly chiefly, and the firft abidech longeft, if it tand not too much in the Sunne, The Names, Thereis forne doubt among many learned, whether this Viola Matronalis, as it is nfaallycalled in Vatine fhould be the He/peris of Theophratins, in his fixt Booke de canfis plantarum and 2 5. Chap, becarfe he is fo brief therein, thatthere can be no more learned outof him,then that ic {melleth {weeter inthe morning and evenin thenintheday time, evenas {ome of thefe and the ordinaryfort doth, whom Pliny followeth in his 20, Books and 7. Chapter,and thereof tooke the name HesPeris : Ie is al{o called ofTragus Viola alba, and Perfica HiHermolai, lai erfica , and taken to be Lencoinm of 4Fu/chius: Gefwer;Dedoneus and Lugdunenfis call it Viola Matronaliz, and Lobel Vj Damafcena, Someal{o call it Uiola byberna, five byemati s, and tome called He(peris flare pleno albe, and flore Viola Miofthatella ; the firkt BE ddand &fecond a plenopurpurante : the third here is the third Hefperis of Clofim,oni he other two are mentioned by Baubinus, the former by thename of Hefperts /ylueftriy hirfuta foliis Hieratij other HesPerie [plocftris flora parvo, to the laft I have given thetitle as is fctett : _ Bet “i iss Vili Damas,and Violette de Dames, Giroflce di Damas,a nd Giroflee de Dames,the Germans winter Violen,ast hey doe th Wallflowers alfo in the laft Ghaprer,, the Dutch Damas Bloemen; we in Englifh Dames Violets, bend Denatcs Violets, Queenes Gillohowers, Winter Gilloflowers, alfo of fome,Rogues Gilloflowers. but why T know not : inthe Weft parts of this Mand, from whence I had the donble kindsas I amenformed. the Sciney,and the fingle clofe Sciney,but Gerard faith clofe Sciences. ycall it double as eed vie ‘ The Vertues, Hepperia forts of them are they may be fecies thereof, being hot and fharpe in talte, like unto Rocket, and therefore Do, inket fo like intalte, to be alfo in propertie she faith that the ane— very cffeCtuall to prociite (weating. C/wfus further addeth,thatit provoketh rine alfo, and helpeth thofe ie : have 629 Cuwap, LXXY. but ftand clofe to the ftalke': the flowers are as large, and confiltof foure leaves in the fame manner that the Theleaves of this kindeare large and broad, {mall atthe bottome of the ftalke whereit is a little parted Cuar.975+ have a cough orare fhort winded : itis alfo of a cutting quality for tough flegme, of digefting propertyfor raw and undigefted humours, and ofaclenfing nature for foule and filthy Cankers »Vicets and fores, eytherin= wardly inthe mouth,cr outwardly in any part of the body. This HesPer% iso like unto the ordinaryfort, in all other things faving the fent, that there can be no diffe. rence found betweene them : this onely hath no fent at all, neither morning ;nor evening, neither day, nor night, to commendit, which makethit to be a differing fort from the reft and {ome have made anotherdifferent fore hereof, (which islikely ro be buta degeneration ofthe fame ) thatbearethgreenith flowers, 4. Hefperis{ylveftrisfolio finuato. Wilde DamesViolets with wavedleaves. This Dames Violet fendeth forth anhairy, rough,crefted,pale greene {talke of about a foote high, parted at the top into divers branches,with leaves fet thereon from the bottome,which are thicke,rough, and hairy, narrower or torne, but crumpled and dented all about theedges, little rough hairy and woolly,but in Sammer more whites the ftalkerifeth up the next yeare afterthe firft ipringing about a yard high, branching forthat the top into fundry long {pikes, full of very {mall white fowers no bigger then the laft, confilting of foure leaves a peece, which afterwards yeeld very manyand verylong flender flat pods like the Stocke Gilloflowers hanging downe, but fmaller, with very darke browneflat feedes therein on both fideslike the Lescoinm : fo that it partaketh with the He/peris in the greene leaves, and with the Le#coinm in the flat pods and feede : the roote is nor very long bue white and wooddy perifhing yearely after it hath borne feede : the fowers have littke or no fent in them; but the leaves have little hot The Theater of Plants. 1. Lychnis Coronaria flore albo pleno. Double white. Rofe Campions, The double white Rofe ( ampion hath notaltogether fo woolly white leaves, as the othe r Rofe Campions have, but area little greener and fmaller, the flowets grow upon the branchesofthe ftalke in the fame manner but rife not ufually fo high asthe double Red, fet in whitifh cornered huskes, and confifting of two or three towesofleaves inthe fame manner; this isa little more tender to keepe then the double Red, and defireth more fhadow and moyfture. 2, Lychnis Chalcedonicaflorealbo pleno. Double white Nonefuch. This double Nonefuchis fo like unto the other double Red, for the forme of the leaves and manner of growing,as that there is hardly any difference difcerned before it come toflower, yet the leaves feeme to beea little frefher greene : the ftalke rifeth not fohigh, andthe flowerit felfe isnot fo large as the double red andis of a pale whitifh colour: se 2 3- Lychnis Chalcedonica minorfimplex, Thelefferfingle Nonefuch or flower ofBriftow. Theleffer kinderifeth not {o high as the other fort by the halfe,neither is the ftalke { great having but a few leavesfet thereon by coupleslike the other : the flowers that ftand \at the toppe likewife are fewer but of the fame colour, the rooteis fmall and fibrous and perifheth every yeare, 7 i The Place, Thefe areonely nourfed up in Gardens with us, and their naturall placés are not knowne. } The Time. { hey both fowerat the time oftheir other kinds. ; The Names. Ic is called in Grecke a7 (Lychniaftom wixv@ i, Lucerna)and vaixviay Ely chninm quafi lucerne funicwa Lychuis Coronaria vulgaris, Ordinaty RofeCamsion, Lychujs Chalcedonica vulgaris, Theordinary Nonefuch or flower of Briflowes (—=> 4s SIERO |