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Show Ml \ Theatrum Botanicum. 754 CHarets Trisr6 Amaranthys Coccineus, 3», Blitum P Scarlet Flowver-gentle, Wilde Blites ag feedes Trise 6. Guar. 15. The Fheater-ofPlants. o bethe Poly/poron of Caffiants fe, Knotgrafle; and the Cockes foote graffe : the third is taken by: Anguillarat Pant Baffanus, and by Lo beland Lugdwnenfis Poly{permon ; the three laft forts have not bene remembred by any author before me, The Vertues. red flowers feedes or The generall tenet ofmoft as wellinthefe plants as in all ether is that thofe which have man or woman,andthofe thatbe roots, are goodtoftay the red courfesin women, and all other flaxes ofbloodin although ic may fall out right in fome white will{tay, the whites in women orthe Gonorrhea in. men, which things, yet thatit fhould hold goodin all,lam not certaine my felfe,nor can Laflute any other yet the qualities of all thefe being cooling, drying and binding, doe by Hypocrates teftimonyferve to reltraine the fluxes of bloodin man or woman,Caffianus hath fecitdowne foran ae Anguilara confirmethit,that Fifhes are much delighted with the third fort here expreffed;and by that baite are ufually taken. Cuap. XV. Viola, Violets, Bie Have given you in my former bookeallithe forts of Violets and Panfyes either fingle or double thar are e Hs fic to furnith agarden ofdelight and pleafare: there are yet fomeother wilde ones of both forts to bee entreated of, which I have fet downetogether in this Chapter. 1. Viola furretta purpurea, Vpright Violets, A This-Violet groweth about afoote high or more, with hard upright ftalkesy which yet bend downe againé their tops, having wo leaves fomewhat roundfet at each joynt but longer and. more dented about the edges then the Garden kinds, at whith joynts with the leaves on 4, Violafurretla. purpurea. rile ee Vprighr Violets, both fides of the ftalkes commeth forth’ a larger flower and more {pread open then it, being more like-a:Panfye, but of a pale purplith colour, almoft as fweetas the Violet as Matthion dus,but withoutfent as Lobel faith : Dodonews maketh mention of this fort as I take it, buthe defcribeth ic wich varictie of colours like a Panfyeand therefore calleth it Viola alfiergens tricolor, and faith eMatthiolus fet it forthto grow on Mount Ballus, bat Matthiolus declareth no varietie. of colours in his but os purple : after the flowersare paft follow longer feede veffells (\ GF as fmall feed as that of the Panfyes but whitifh, the roote con- i theneither the Violets or Parifyes have, wherein is contained G77] Am avanthus tricolor, i Flower-gentle, Variable fifteth of firings which abide notafter feedetime, butrifethof //Ay, maximus. g anthus coceinens elegans 6. Amarant gentle, The greater {carler tufted Amaranthus or Flower- 755 thefallen feede. a. Violamontana pumila anguftifolias Small narrow leafed Violets. This {mall Violet fendeth forth divers long and narrow leaves, fomewhat like unto Rofemary leaves for the narrow- Sid //7 nefic and length alfoalmoft, among Which come flowers every |/ one {inglyona finall long footttalke very like unto‘a Violet,and \ ofa whitith colour but-withont any fene-at al, the rooteis < ——- thicke like unto Violets with divers fibres fet at << them, ; 3. Viola montanalaciniato folio... Mountaine Violets with jagged leaves, This jagged Violet bringeth out five or fix leaves fromthe roote,every one upon long foot{talke; more cutin on theedges then the common forts into five or eightdivifions, likeunto a-Crowfoote leafe or rather unto abroad leafed Anemone,be> tweene which leavesrife.feverall {mall ftalkes and flowers on them, but of whatcolour is not yet, knowne bur. there were {mall round heads found which had conteined the feede like unto the feede veffells of Violets: the roote was fomewhat gteat and 'of a fingers length. : ; Kom ae A 4. Viola lutea Virginiana. Yellow Violets of Virginia. The Virg yellow Violet is very like our yellow. Violet remembred in, my former |booke, and fa is the {mall yellow flower. H 5. Violarubra friata Eboracenfis.. Yorkefhire ftriped,red Violets, : Matter Stonchorfea reverend Miniter of Darfield. in Yorkehhiere aflured mehe found akind of wilde Vio= let neare unto his habitation, whofe leaves were rounder and thinner thenof, others, andthe flowers reddifh with fadder yeines therein. ‘ 6. Viola fylvefiri,, Wilde Violets, ‘ 1 The wilde Violet is altogether like the garden Violer, but that the leaves. are fewer in number, fomewhat: thinner alfo and {maller and a little longer or ‘notfully fo. round,, the Alowers.al(oare,larger and.ofa very pale purplith blew colour neare.antoa watcher,not having any{mell.at all or very little, Th «Viola tricalor ipleeketes Wilde. Panfyes or Hearts-eafe. 33 , sO é ane two orthree forts, of thefe wilde Panfyes not.differing ont from.anotherjor any-of them from the arden kindsin forme ofleavesflowers of manngr ofgrowing, .butin the colonr.and largenefie ofthe flowern; { |