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Show Tribe 6, Theatram Botanicum. 759 before Penfees and Herba Clavellatasthe Italians call it Lacea Fior di Giove and Minntizpenfieri,the French as \ faid qi Viola GluefPris Tricolor, Viola tricolor major @ wulgavis, Penfees minutces the Germans Frey[chemkyaut,the Dutsh PenfeenThe firtt is called by AdarthiolViola arbore/censy Wilde Panfyes or Hearts cafe, Greater and leffer Panfyes or Hearts cafe) Cuarp: 16. The Theater of Plants. Triped. bis canlicultsby Dodonews Viala affurby Gefner Violafruticofa,by Clufivs Viola Elaliorby Lobel Viola Martiafurre elatior andarborea: the fecond-is called by Viola others by and violarum, Maier Lugdunenfis by gens tricolor, by him in his hiftory Viola montana lacis Clufius in his Cure pofteriores folio 59. Viola montana pumila: the third tinder the generall niatas the fourth and Aft have not beenc'remembred by any before: the two la(t are reckoned = oy »ier to (hewtheir diftinctions. name of Viola tricolor with the addition of /y/veftri i The Vertnes, > hy ae i ys at ar¢ freth and greene, and The Garden Violets and fo likewife the wilde kindes are coldand moift while they the inflammationsin are ufed to coole anyheate or diftemperaturé of the body, eyther inwardly or outwardly, are full of paine, Impoftumes alfo and the eyes inthe motherorin the funddment whenthey are fallen downe & or or wine, toapply them ponlhot fwellings, to drinke the decoétion of the leaves or flowers made with-water through want of flcepe, or tig wife to the grieved place, itlikewife eafeth paines in the head, which are caufed Rofes : a dram weight of the dryinanyother place arifing of heate applyed in the like manner, ot with oyle of the bedy of chollerick humors, ed leaves ofthe flowers of Violets, (but the leaves more ftrongly) doth purge the purple leaves of and affwageththe heate being taken ina draughtofwine or any other drinke : the powderof Quinfie_and the Falling the flowers onely pickt and dryed,and drunke in powder with water-is {aid to helpe the white Violets: ripenerh and fickneffe in children, e{pecially in the beginning of the difeafesthe flowers of the while they diffolyethfwellings : the fede being takenrefifteth the force ofthe Scorpion sthe herbe or flowers the Lungs, to are freth, or the flowers whentheyare dry are effeCtuall in the Plurifie and all other difeafes of alfo and fharpene fle ofurine, lenifie the fharpeneffe of hot rheumes and the hoarfeneffe of the throate, th¢ heate Iaundies, andin all and all paines of the backe or reynes and the bladder: it is good alfo for the Liver and the and of better hot Agueshelping to coole the heate, and quench thirft : bucthe Syrupe of Violets is of moft ufe bee put toit or a effet being takenin fome convenientliquor, and if a little of the juice or Syrupeof Lemons quench; the fewdrops of the oyle of Vitrioll, it is made thereby the more powerfull to coole the heate and to tafte. thirft; and befides theeffect givethto the drinke a Claret wine éolour andafine tartrellifh pleafing tothe flowViolets taken or madeup with hony doth mote clenfe thencoole,and with: Sugar contrariwife : the dryed me=: ahd other ers of Violets are accounted among thé Cordial flowers andare ufed in cordialls, drinkes powders dicines, efpecially where cooling cordialls,as Rofes and Saunders are ufed : the greene,leaves are alwayesufed wherewith other herbes to make Cataplafmes and Poultifes for inflammations or {wellings, andto.eafe paines Panfyes or foever arifing of heate andfor the piles alfo being fryed with Yolkes of Egges and applyed thereto. and temperate, Hearts eafeis like unto Violetsin all the parts thereof, but fomewhat hotter and dryer, yet very conducinginlike by the vifcous or glutinousjuice therein doth fomewhat mollifiey iyet leffe then Mallowes itis ficknefle in: manneas Violets tothe hot difeafes of the langsand chefts,for agues, for convulfions,and the falling helpe children :_ the placesalfo troubled withthe itch or {cabs. being ‘bathed with the decotion of ther doth care is faid rd to oe greene wounds,and to helpeold fores toufe the juyce or the diftilled water:ZLagdu- 3 : Le ; t he noneat all, but all ofthémfor the molt part being {inallér then thofe of thé Garden,and of as fmall.a fent, that hath three colours in them for theyare in the flowers, thecolours are divers, yet {carfe a flower among many bottome. inthe yellow fome fometimes ee chicfely white and pale blew, moreor leffe marked = nen(is {etteth it eee The Place, as alfo upon the Vegancan hillsin Narbone : the fecond Thefirlt as is before fayd was found upon Mount Baldus as any in histime, who fhewedit both to Clafius Hetbarift an excellent as Boel Gwillame by ‘was found in Spaine + the third Clufius faith hee had from fromthence brought hee plants otherrare many among himfelfe as he faith it dry to Clajivs : the fourth came Doéter Mera who gatheredthe plantin his returne from Italy, and fhewed defcription, the two lat grow wilde in our owne from Virginia,and the fift from Yerke/biere asis fayd in the = ee and ves like Land plenfully enough, the wild Violets in woods and Orchards and underbuthes the borders o othersfields. fhady places,the wilde Panfies in the Cornefields and in fuchas lye Ley,and in ; = . The Time, All thefe Slowerafter the Garden Violets,and as the P anfyesuntill the end of July, ; : Sle ape ane : Yr The Names. 7 es f . The Garden Violet is called in Greeke bv ropouety Viola purpurea by Diofcorides and ion winas Viele nigra and fo theancient Greekes (fot fo fet downe in their writings) tobefor wsrdnon Mdelanium by Theophrafivs beleeved byby forth that-herbe called of Jo,who wastransformed into a Cow Ispiter, the earth being caufed to bring Violet fon called was the cattleto feede on : or as Hermolaus reporteth Nicander tofay inhis Geoponicks, that Latines doe callir, sols ofcertaine Nimphes of Towia, who firft gave of thofe flowers to Iupiter asa prefent : the CMartia, and the herbe Violaria, Viola quaft vitula by putting the Letter + in imitation’ of the Greekes, which made Servius to thinke that Viola was Vaccinium of the Latines,citing Virgil in his fecond Eclogue Alba liguftra cadunt Uaceinia nigra leguntur. ButVsrgif in his tenth Eclogue fheweth he did not meane them;for hee nameth them both as different herbes in thefe words Et sigre Violefunt & Vaccinia nigra: but I have fhewed what isthe true Vaccininm of Virgillin my former booke in folio 127. and 128. Vitravins alfo in his feventh booke of Archite@tare diftinguitheth Viola trom Uaccininmsoy Thewing the different colours theygave in dying of cloth, &c, quathire, whereof came Zanthinus colotir, A Violet or purple colour, fome others thinke that lor cameene7 or Benes Arabians call itSemefigs,oene]ragy aut provenire,aut primum prormmpere : Verts enim previa eft Viola. The gS fifigs : the Italians Viola porporea and Pavonaxxo and Viola mamuolo : the Spaniards Violetra Deeinpeal de Mars ; the Germanes Mertzen Violen, the Dwtch Violetten, and we in English Violets, 4¢arch Violets,and purple Violets : The Heatts cafe ‘is called by us Panfyes from the French word Penfees, as alfolovein idleneffe, cull fo, thatis flamma, me to you, and thrée faces in@’ hood) and iw Latine Viola tricolor, and Viola flammea; for call it Violamulti« Gaza tranflateth grrz or oaspov(ontnvev fomie copies have) OF Theophrapie lib.6.¢. 6. fortie alfo célov Herba Trinitata, Flos Trinitatis and Violé Trinitat# of the three colours herein: CMatthiotus’alfo faith ic yrascalled Zaceasbur there is anothigrZaneacalled higra, whicteefIhave largely entreated before, and-fomepo 3 CWVarfeilles in France downe that many facks full of the flowers and herbes are tran{ported from religion: unto Alexandrias and other career Egypt where they ufe them boyled in a whichonely omtheir be drunke : but are perfwaded wholefometo more the makeit to thereby onely lungs drinke,notofthe they are enjoyned to fickneffes. and cheft, and the falling allo chat ithelpeth the difeafes * : CHap Kt . HAP. : Fragaria, Strawberries. but one wild fors. Strawberries, edible ofthe moft onely not you théwed have ! Booke myformét N the reft I give yout alfo chat was fit to furni{hthat VW orke,,the figure of one which will decipher all y and others here ; thereare fomeotherforts to be entreated of fit tobe eaten; which were omitted, that are wilde withoutedible fruit, and thereforecalled by fome barren or without fruite. 1. Fragaria minor higpido folio, ‘Small Straw berries This Strawberrié groweth like to other Strawberriesbothin leaves, fl with hard leaves. ,andfrnite,but leffe inall ofthem; her¢of at chard rough andhainie,grayith, and to diftingnifh it the more certainély fromtheother forts, the leaves pe are {mall fufficient pleafant to eate, red on 1s well on the upper as underfide : theberties whentheyareri divided. equally the one fide, andwhite onthe other, as ifthey were 2. Fragaria Alpinafruéix compreffo. Flat Straw berric¢ rnit,which is more flat than There is no difference in this kinde from our.ordinary.Serawberric. but in round, and hath a ftrake or-lift, every berrie ofa tafte neare a Rafpis s this alfo ufually beareth fruit againe in : the Avtumne, 3. Fragaria Helvetianana. ; z Dwarfe Strawberries. Divers mayjudge that this Strawberriec {mallneffe-commeth by the barrenneffe of the foyle wherein it grow= eth, but that isnot fo « for it is well knowne to moft, that thofehills of the Swif/rs have no barren ground upon them this hath very{mall triparted leaves next the ground, clofer fet together upon fhort foote flaikes than any long, whichlieth creeping ther, and thofe that are fet on both fides ofthe long branch, not above foure is onthe ground, growlefle and without ftalke : the flower ftandeth. atthe end ofthe branch manytimes, but one ata place, which confifteth of five round leaves likea Strawherrie, but larger then agreeth, with the wee have not yerfeenc or proportion of the plant, and is ofa yellowifh colour ; what fraite this beareth rieeaplanta of Baubinws, knownecertainely, This! commeth neate unto the defcription of the Fragarie off thereunto his brother formerly fo calling it, which as he faith is the Lescas Diofcoridis Adverfariorum and giveth therein : but this was broughtus from che Alpes by. nce Fle(cher a. Silefiany; a {mall head containing {mall {esde lomo! in fimples, who perifhed in Virguia, by elting, 2 young DoGtor in Phyficke bat very skilfall poytonry TEC Teg eae eae) |