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Show OftheHiftorieof Plants. $54 t Vielatricolor. Hearts-eafe. Lis. Viola alfurgens tricolor, Vpright Hearts-eafe, Dber28 ie); the Hiftory of Plants, 855 Jeafe with foure orfile blackith purple lines, wherein it differeth from the other wilde kinde : and this hath beene takenof fome yong Herbarifts tobe the yellowViolet, G The Place. The Hearts-eafe groweth infields in manyplaces, andin gardens alfo, and that oftentimes of itfelfe: itis more gallanv andbeautifull than any of the wilde ones. iene RR So ag Matthiolus teporteth, that the vpright Paunfic is found on mount Baldus in Italy, Lobel faith that itgtoweth in Languedoeke in France, and on the tops offomehills in England; but as yet Ihaue not feene the fame. Thofewith yellow floures have been foundby avillage in Lancafhireealled Latham, fouré miles from Kyrckham, by M'.Thomas Hesketh before remembied. G The Time. They,floure not onely in the Spring,but for the moft part all Sommer thorow, euen vatill Autunine, gq The Names, Hearts-cafe is nafned in Latine Viola tricolor, or the three coloured Violet ; and of diuers,zacea: (yetthere is another sacea fyrnamed Nigra : in Englith, Knap-weed,Bull-weed, and Matfellon) of others, Herba Trinstatis, or herbe Trinitie, by reafon of the ttiple colour of the floures : of fome others, Herba Clanellata : in French, Penfees : by which name they became knowne to. the Brabarr- ders and others of the .ow-countries that are next adioyning. It feemeth to be Viola flammea, which Theophrastus callethory, whichis alfo called eatwor: in Englith, Hearts-eafe, Paunfies, Liue inidleneffe, Cull me toyou, and Three faces.ina hood. _ Thevpright Panficis called not vnproperly ola affurgens, or Surrecta,and withal! Tricolor,that isto fay, fraight or vpright Violet three coloured: of{ome, Viola arbere(cens, or Tree Violet, for thatin the multitude of branches and manner of growingit refemblesa little tree. The Temperature. Itisoftempetature obfcurely cold, but more euidently moift, ofa tough and flimie iuyce, like thatofthe Mallow, for which caufe it moiftneth and fuppleth, but not fo much as the Mallow doth, @ The Vertues. _ ltisgood, as the later Phy {itions write,fot fuch as ate ficke ofan ague,cfpecially children and infants, whofe convul fions andfits of the falling fickneffe it is thought to cure. iolatricolor fylucftrés, Wilde Paunfies. 4 Violatricolorpetres. Stony Hearts-eale. Itis commended again{t inflammations ofthe lungs and cheft,and againft fcabs and itchings ofthewhole body, and healeth vicers. Thediftilled water ofthe herbeor floures giuen to drinke for ten or more dayes together,three Ouneesin the morning, and the like quantitie at night, doth wonderfully eafe the paines of the French difeafe, and cureth the fame,ifthe Patient be caufedto fweat fundry times, as Coftews xePorteth, inhis booke de natura Vninerf, flirp. Cuar. 314. Of Ground-fFuy,or eA le-hoofe. @| The Defiription. Round luy is a low or bafe herbe; it creepethand {preads vpon the ground hitherand thitherall about, with many ftalkes of an vneertaine length, flender,and like thofe of fotibasti’ the Vine, fomething cornered, and fometimes reddith : whereupon grow leaues rieiomii dtodd and round, wrinkled, hairy, nicked in the edges, for the moft part two.out ofeue-= eeeee whieh come forth the floures gaping like little hoods, not volike to thofe of t,0fa purplith blew colour: the roots are very threddy :the whole plant-is ofa ftrong finell “and bitter tafte, itad of Aa the rockie and mountainousplaces of Prouince and Daulphine growesthis orhet mer, but ee hath leaues, ttalkes, floures, and roots likein fhapetothofe ofthe fora blis ¢alled. ‘Oures and Jeauies are ofalight purple colour, and alfolarger and longer. This by Zes Afarina, fine Saxatilis hedera. $ Ttis fOandaciatt ca 4: ¢ eed The Place. : + darke plaC €3; von bang well in tilled as in yntilled places, but moft commonly in ob{cure.and dare Pp: ve anks voder hedges, and bythefides of houfes. : @ The Time. Ie Temain Ft from A, roSieg not onely in Sommer,but alfoin Winter at any time ofthe yeare ** flou- Puli till Sommer tb be far {pency pent ‘ @ The |