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Show oo — am. Of the Hifterie of Plants. Lisa, q The Place. The Violet groweth in gardens almoft euery where: the others whichare ftrangers havebecne touchedin their deftriptions. uae @ The Time, The floures for the moft part appeare in March, at the fartheft in Aprill. f The Names, The Violet is called in Greeket: of Theophraftus, bothtewre, and wren: in Latine, Nigraviala, orblacke Violet, ofthe blackith purple colourofthe floures. The Apothecharies keepe the La. tinename Viola, but they call at Herba Violaria, and Mater} ‘tolarum in high-Dutch, 3]an Wiel: in low-Dutch, @ioleten $ in French,Violette de Mars : in Italian, Viola mamemola» in Spanith,Violke. ta: in Englifh, Violet. Nicander in his Geoponi¢kes beleeueth, (as Hermolaus theweth) that the Gteciahs did call itt, becaufecertaine Nymphs ofIonia gaue that floure firft to Zupiter. Others fay it was called tm, becaufe when Jupiter had turned the young Damofell Zo, whomhetenderly loued, intoa Cow, the earth brought forth this floure for her food : which being madeforherake, receiued the namefrom her; and thereupon it is thought that the Latines alfocalled it Yiols, as thoughthey fhouldfay ’iwla, by blotting ouctheletter t, Seruias reporteth, Thatfor the fame caufe the Latines alfo nameit Vaccinium, alledging theplace of Yirgi/ in his Bucolicks; Alba lizuftra cadunt vaccinia nigraleguntur. Notwithftanding /#red in his tenth Eclog fheweth, that Yacciniamand Violado differ. Ei nigre viola funt, & vaccinia nigra, + Vitruvius alfoin his feuenth booke of Architecture or Building doth diftinguith ala from Vaccinium : for he fheweth thar the colour called Sile 4tticum, or the Azure of Athens, is made ex Fiolazand the gallant purple, ex Vaccinio. The Dyers, faith he, when they would counterfeit Sile, or Azure of Athens,put thedried Violets into fat,kettlesor caldron,and boyle them with water ; afterwards whenis is tempered they poure it into a linnen ftrainer , and wringing it with their hands, teceiue intoa mortar the liquor coloured with the Violets ; and fteeping earth of Erethria in it, and grinding the fame, they make the. Azure colour of Arhens, After the fame manner they temper Vaccizium, and putting milke vnto it, do makea gallant purple colour. But what Vaccine are we will elfewhere declare, {§ fes that coole : and eafe : paine. oe ; E 1 : ints Butletthe oyle in which theViolets be fteepedbe either ofvnripe oliues,called omphasia or offweet Almonds, as Mefues faith,and the Violets themfelues muft be frefh and mol ihe dry, and hauing loft their moifture, they doe not coole, but feeme to haue gottena of heate. fort Thelater Phyfitians do thinke it good to mix dry Violets with medicin es thatare to com and ftrengthen the heart. ; ing outTheleaues of Violets inwardly taken docoole, moiften, and make the belly foluble.Bet mi alfo veil themfeluesssby taken both inflammations, hot of wardly applied, they mitigate all kinde applied with Barleyflou redried at the fire, after it hathlien foking inthe water. They are satel faid vpona hot ftomacke, and on burning eyes, as Galen witneffeth. Diofcorides writeth , © FE fundamen’ be moreouer applied to the fundamentthat is fallenout. They may helpe the fundamentthatis fallen out, not asa binder keeping back the we 5, 8 but asa fuppler and amollifier. Befides, Pliny faith that Violets areas well vied in ee and fmelt vnto ;and ate good againft furfeting, heauineffe of the head ;and being dried walling fick drunke, they remouethe Squinancieor inward fwellings ofthe throat. They cure ee * neffe, efpecially in yong children, and the feed is good againft the ftinging of Scorpcite at on There isa fyrrup madcof Violets and Sugar, whereofthree or foure ounces being ta# G HH time,foften the belly,and purge choler. The manner to makeit is as followeth. sad thicke- Firftmake ofclarified fugar by boyling a fimple fyrrup ofa goodconfiftence or td white em mpg! neffe, whereunto put the floures cleane picked from all manner of filth,as alforne pp ahaa 353 inward parts. The deco ion ofViolets is good againft hotfeuers, and the inflammation of the liner and all other inwardparts ; the like propertichaththe inyce, {yrrup, or conferue of the fame. Syrup of Violets is good dgain{tthe inflammation ofthelungs and breft,again‘t thepleurific and cough, againft feucrs and agues in yongchildren, efpecially if you put vnto an ounce of Sy mup cight or nine drops ofoyle of Vitrioll, and mix it together, and giue it tothechildea fpoonefullat once. The fame giuen in manner aforefaid is Ofgreat efficacie in burning feuersand peftilent dife fes, greatly cooling the inward parts : and it may feeme ftrange to fome, that fo tharpe a corroliue 4s Oyle of Vitriol fhould be giuen into the body ; yet being delayed and giuenasaforefaid, fucking children may take it without anyperill. The fame takenas.aforefaid cureth all inflammationsof the throat, mouth, uvala, {quinancie, and the falling euiil in children, } Sugar-Violet hath power toceafe inflammations, roughneffe of the throat, and comforteth the heartaffwageth the paines ofthe head, and ¢aufethfleepe. Theleaues ofViolets are vfed in cooling plaifters,oyles, and comfortable cataplafmes.r pultelles , and are ofgreaterefficacie among other hetbes, as Mercurie, Mallowes, and fuchlike, in clifters, for the purpofes aforefaid. The flouresaregoodforall inflammations, efpecially of the fides and lings ; they take away fundament and hemorthoides: it is likewife good to be put into cooling clifters,and into pl . - Thereis likewife made of Violets and{ugar certain plates called Sugar Violet,or Violet tables, Cua. 313. ed or laboured together ina woodden dithwiththe yelke ofanegge,it affwageththe pain © ‘ ; - orPlate, which is moft pleafant and wholefome,efpecially it comforteth the heart and the other qq The Temperature. vponthetefticles, doth gently prouoke fleepe whichis hindred by a hot and (dry diftempet Pie D atc — OF the Hiftorie of Plants. then fet tiemvpona gentle fire to fimper,but not to boyle inany wife: fo haue youit { ofamott perfe& purple colour, andofthe fmell of the floures themfelues. Some doac alittle of the iuyce ofthe floures in the boyling, which makethit of berter forceand v wife fome do puta little quantitic of the inyce of Lymons in theboyling, which dot! creafethe beauty thereof, but nothingat all thevertue. OfHearts-eafe, or Panftes. q| The Defcription. the hoarfenefle of the cheft, the ruggedneffe of the winde-pipe and iawes,allay the extream heate bein , nipped away, 2 quantitic according tothe quantitie of the fyrrup, to your owne diferetion where. in lettheminfiy{e or fteepefoure and twenty houres, and fet vpona few warme embers; t it, and put more Violets ihto the fame fyrrup : thus do three or foure times, the oftn The floures and leaues of the Violets are cold and moift. q The Vertues. ofthe liuer, kidneyes, and bladder ; mitigate the fierie heate of burning agues, tempet thefharpneffe ofcholer, and take away thirft. B There isan oylemadeofViolets, whichis likewife cold and moift, The fame being anointed C Lis. 2. He Hearts-eafe or PaunSe hath manyroundleauesat the firft commingvp; afterward they grow fomewhat longer,fleightly cut about the edges, trailing or creeping vpon theground. The ftalkes are weake and tender, whereupon do growfloures in forme and figureke the Violet, and for the moft part of the fame bigneffe, of three fundtycolours ; whereofit d0ke the fyrname Tricolor, that is to fay, purple, yellow, and white or blew : byreafon ofthe beau: ty and braucrie of which colours they are verypleafing to theeye, for fmell they haue little or no; be at all, The {eed is containedin little knaps, of the bignefleofa Tare, which come forth afterie floures be fallen, and do open ofthemfelues when the nose feed istipe. The root is no- thi a Th Putas it were abundle of threddy ftrings. ‘ e i 5 bia c vpight Paunfie bringeth forth long leaues deepely cutin a edges, re pointed,of ihn ee € greene colour, fet vpon flender vptight ftalkes, cotnered, lope , or kneed'a foot yell ms ei ; whereupon do grow very faire flotires of three colours, VIR; of purple, blew, and longeet thape like the common Hearts-cafe, but greater and fairer : which coloursare fo excelleggyty placed, vlna they bring great delectation to the beholders, thoughthey haue thorn! atall. For oftentimes it hapneth, that the vppermoft floures are differing from todally ‘SfOlv vpon the middle of the plant, and thofe varie from the lowermoft,as Nature lift _ diviththings of fuch beauty. The {eedis like the precedent. deme Wilde Paunfie differeth from that ofthe garden, in leaues, roots, and tender Peaeencs: garden e Ofthis wilde one are ofa bleake and pale colour, far inferiour in beauty to’ that ofthe aWierein confiftcth the difference, béne eats Hearts-cafe is a bafe and lowplant: The leaues arerounder, and not fo rh thes “ees as the others : The branches are weake and feeble,trailing vpon the Oecos serithe e tkewife ofthree colours, that is to fay, white, blew,and yellow,void of{mell. “hwhen it hath perfectedhisfeed, Ca fal 1. . Lbeteis found:in fundry places of England awilde kinde hereof, bringing floures ot a wek taint en! 3 : 8 ~W colour, without mixture ofanyother colour, yet hauing a deeperyellow fpottiin the oHfe Yellow ad =; |