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Show a OftheHilterieof Plants.)Lina oeen mantis —_ . feed commethforth containedin a flat thin cod,with a fharppoint or prick at oncend, in fathi of the Moone, and a a: fomewhatblackith. This codis compofedof three filmes wiereolas two outmoft are ofan ouerworne ath colour, andthe innermoft,or that in the orskins middle whereon : feed doth hang orcleaue,is thin and clecre fhining,likea fhred ofwhite Sattin newlycue fom peece. The wholeplant dieth the fame yeare that it hath borne feed,& mutt befow ne yearely. The rootis compact of many tuberous parts like key clogs, or like the great Afphodill, ” 2 ig The fecond kind of Bolbonac orwhite Sattin hath many ereat and broad iden almoft like thofeof the great burre Docke:among whichrifeth vpa very tall tem of the height of foure cu. bits,ftiffe,and ofa whitith greene colour,fet with the like leaues,but {fmaller. The Routes grow vp. on theflender branches,ofa purple colour, compact offoure {mall leaues like thofe ofthe flocke Gillofioure; after which comethin long cods ofthe famefubftance and colourofthe former. The root is thicke, whereunto are faftenedan infinite number of long threddie ftrings:which roote di eth not cueryyear eas the other doth,but multiplicthit felfeaswell by fallingof the feede,asb new fhoots ofthe root. 3 Viola Lunar five Bolbonac, A Re 2 Viola Lunarés longioribusfiliquis, White Sattin, Long cédded white Sittin, Tadai. OftheHiftory of Plants, Sattin,and among our womenit is called Honeftie: it feemeth to be the old Hetbarifts TA}: alterum.or fecond Treacle muftard,and that which Cratenas de{cribeth, called ofdivers Sinapi Per. ficum ; for as Dioftorides faith,Cratenas maketh mention of a certaine Thlafpi or Treacle Muftard, with broadleaues and bigge roots,and fuch this Violet hath,which we furname Latéfolia or broad leafed : generally takenofall to be the great Lu#aria, or Moonwoort. | Their Temperature and Vertues. The feed of Bolbonacis of Temperature hot and drie,and fharpe oftafte,andis like intafteand A force to the feed of Treacle Muftard;the roots likewife are fomewhatofa biting qualitie, but not much : they ate eaten withfallads as certaine otherroots are. A certaine Chirurgian of the Heluetians compofed a moft fingular vnguentfor wounds of the B leaues of Bolbonac and Sanicle ftamped together,adding thereto oile and wax. Thefeed is grearly commended againft thefalling ficknefle. Cuar.124. Of Galen and Diofcorides Moonwoorts or Madwoorts. 1 Alyfum Galeni. Galens Madwoort, + 2 ULdhjfum Diofcoridis. Diofcorides Moonwoort or Madwoort, | The Place. Thefe plants are fer and fowne in gardens; notwithftanding wilde i0 t the woods about Pinner,and Harrow onthehill,twelue miles the firfthath been found from London: and in Effex likew about Horn-church, : Thefecond groweth about Watford, fifteene miles from London. Soy The Time. They floure in Aprillthenexe yeare after they be fowne, They are commonly called Bolbonac bya eeeeae had rather call it with Dodoeis cet Violalatifoliasand Piola lunaris,ox it pleafeth moft Herbarifts, Viola peregrina: ‘ apace Penntnek bloemen, ofasthe fathionof the coddes, likeafter a fort: to . molt : teftcrne,and aetchbloemen,becauie it-alwaies floureth necre aboutcither the Feaft Eaftet: of the later Herbariftsdoecall it Lunaria ; Others; Lunaria Graca, of theoffafhion of ©he two i feed,orofthefiluer brightneffe that ithath,orof rhe middle skinne ofthe cods,when the termoft skinnes or huskes and feedes lik Wife ; herbe in in Englith Engi)”P ewife are fale away.Wecall this floure, or Money floure, oy Siluer Plate, Pricke-fongwoort , in Norfolke, Sattia, and . = 465 G The Defcription, night be one ofthe number of the Horehounds,but thatGalen vfed it not fora kind sbut for 4) (Jon,or Madwoort : it is like in forme and fhew vato Horehound,and ofthe ftalks,but the leaves thereofare leffer,smore curled,more hoary, & whiter, ifeft {mell atall. Thelittle coronets or {pokiewhurles that compaffethe ftalkes full of fharpeprickles : out ofwhich growfloures of a blewith purple colourlike h erootis hard,woody,and diuerfly parted. mygarden,which is thought to be the true & right Lunary or Moonption,hauing his firft leaues fomewhat round,and afterward more long, hat woolly in handling : among whichrife vproughbrittle ftalkes, h, diuided into many branches, whereupon doe growe manylittle yellow Qq 3 floures: |