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Show 438 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. ‘Lip2= q Their Temperature and Vertues, Thefe by their tafteand forme fhould be muchlike to the greater Gentians in their Operation and working,yet not altogetherfo effeGtuall. + Cuar.109. Of Venus Looking-glaffe. q The Defcription. * Cuar.106. Of (alathian Violet,or eAutumne Bel-floure, Efides the former Bel-floures;thereis likewifea certaine other,which is low and little; | The Defcription, AM the number of the bafe Gentiansthere is a {mal plant,which is late before it commeth vp,hauing ftalk sa fpanhigh,and fometimes higher,narrow leaues like vnto Time,fet bycou. ples aboutthe ftalkes by certaine diftances: long hollowfloures growing at the top of thefals, like a cup called a Beaker, wide at thetop,and narrower toward the bottome,of a deepeblewco. four tendingto purple,withcertain white threds or chiues in the bottome: the foure at the mouth or brim is fiue cornered before it be opened, but whenitis openedit appeareth with fiuechifts o pleats. The whole plantis ofa bitter tafte, whichplainly fhewethit to be a kinde ofwilde Get an. The rootis fmall,and perifheth when it hath perfected his feed,and recouercth it felfeby fil. ling ofthe fame. : Pxeumonanthe, @ The Place, Calathian Violet, It is found fometimes in Meadowes,oftentimesin vntilled places. It groweth vpon Long-field downesin Kent,neere vntoa village called Longfield by Graueend,vponthe chalkiecliffes neere Greene-Hythe and Cobhamin Kent, and many otherplaces. Itlikevié the ftalkes whereofare tender, two fpanslong, diuided intomany branches moftcommonlylying vpon the ground. The leaues about the Se mavenack ee the edges. The flouresare fmall,ofa brightpurple colour tending to ete eautifu Hy a wide mouths like broadbels, hauing a white chiue or thred inthe middle.The floures in th eo timearewide open,andabout the fetting ofthe Sun are {hut vp and clofed wrt in fiue corners, as they are before are firft opening, ne 1 other Bel-floures are. The rootsbe verie ende verifh when they haue perfeéted their feed. ; * a eeoghet aitet ch a {mall and wooddy rootfendeth vp ftraightftalk,fome- times but twoor three inches, yet otherwhiles a foot high, whenas it lights into good ground, This ftalkeis crefted andhollow, hauinglittle longifh leaues crumpledor finuated about A edSes fet thereon : and out of the bofomesofthofeleaues towards the top of the reas . times lower,comelittle branchesbearinglittle winged cods,at the tops of whichin the —— : of fiue little greene leaues ftand {mall purple flouresoflittle or no beauty;which beingpaf the cods becomemuchlarger, and containe in them a fmall yellowith feed, and they cae their tops the fiue longith greene leaues that incompafled the floure. This plantis an annuall like as the former. + £2 Speculum Veneris: minus. 1 Speculum Veneris, a Venus Looking-glaffe. Coddedcorne violet. gtoweth as you ride from Sugar-loafe hill vnto Baths in the Weft countrey. # This plant I neuer foundbutonce,and thatwasen awet Moorith groundin Lincolnthire, 2 :or 3.miles0n this fide Cafter,and as I remember, the place iscalled NetletonMoore.NowI fufjpeét that our Authourkne it not; firft,becaufe he defcribes itwithleaues like vata Time, whenas this hath long narrow leaues morelik to Hyflop or Rofemary, Secondly,for thathelaitnt foot1s fmall 8: perifheth whenas it hath perfected tht feed:whereas this hatha lining, ftringie and creep root. Befides, this feldomie or neuer growes on cliffes,but on wet Moorith grounds and Heaths fore I fufpe@ our -Authour tooke the {mall Auu! Gentian (defcribed by me inthe fourthplace of te l## Chapter) for this here treated of, £ @ The Time. : HE y ae Thegallant floures hereof be intheir braveries0™ the end of Auguft,and in Seprember. 1d The Names. bs + This is thought to be Viola Calathianaof ae yet ot that of Pliny ; and thofe thatdefireto know more ofthis mayhauerecourfe ro the nell chapterofthe firft booke of the 2.Pempt. of Dodon.bis Latine Herball whence our Authourto™ thofe words that were formerly in this place, though ke didnot well vnderftard nor expe! them }. Itis called viola Autumnalis,or Autumne Violet,and feemethto bee the fame chee ; viws Cordus dothcall Pnenmonanthewhichhe faith is named in the Germane tongue Lungendl rea Lung-floure: in Englifh,Autumne Bel-floures, Calathian Violets, and of fome,Bam els, The Temperature. ig? This wilde Felwoort or V iolet is in torrace a fomewhat like in facultie ro Ge™ whercofitisa kinde, but far Weaker in operation, : The ver one ‘The latter Phyfitionsholdit to be effc Quallagain file nt difeafes,and the bitings®& ings ofvencmovs beats, et d : Cua? a ThePlace. 1 fields among the corne, ina plentiful and fruiefull foile.I foundit ina as Ly from thence toward Dartford in Kent and in ma< mu t elfwhere: from whence I brought of the feeds for my Garden, : vp of themfelues from yeareto yeareby falling ofthe feed. cai oe ‘ ch ts herefigured and detcribed in the firftplace [neuer found growing in Eng O03 land |