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Show Cuar.3. Theatrum Botanicum,. f Trier 1s, Tree 5. little above the ground, that it feemetha preity bufh,about halfea yard or two foote high,fet with fomewhatlong and narrow leaves,pointed at the ends, and tomewhatendented about the edges, two alwayesfet cogether ata joyntoneagain(t another, which will in the heate of Summerturne fomewhat reddifh : the flowers are gaping and hooded, of colour purplith red,the roote is made of divers hard wooddy ftrings. ? . Enfragia pratenfis minor purparea. Small red wooddy. Eyebright.. ; This {mallet red Eyebright hath one {quare reddifh hairy {talke,an handfull high, fornttimes without brancheg and niually but with two {eldome more branches, compafled with a few thicke, hairy,almoft round leaves, two together and deepely cutinto parts, the lower leaves which are the leffe but into three parts, the upper into five orlixe : the fowersbreake forth, {ometimes from betweene the leaves and the ftalkes,and fometimes they ftand in tufts at the roppes, two ftanding together hooded and purplifh, commingout of long greene huskes, {ometimes the flowers have beene obferved to be white,but very feldome’ after which come long and cornered white feede in the faid fiskes, the rooteis {mall wooddy and blacke. 5. &ufragia purpurea latifolia, Broad leafed purple Kyebrighr, his is fomewhatlikethe latt, but that ichath broader leaves,and the flowers are {ec by (paces up to the tops, ofa finer parplifh colour, in other things not muchunlike thelaft. j 6. Exfragia pratenfis major lutea. Great yéllow Eyebright. This great yellow Byebright hatha fquare hard reddifh ftalke neeré two foote high fet with fewer joynts, and longer narrower thicke leaves atthemby couples, and bat {mally dented about the edges : atthe joynts on both fides come forth branches,and at the toppes of them fuch like hooded Howers, ftanding thicke or clofe, two together, bending downewards and looking all one way, ofa gallant gold yellow colour, and ftanding in long greene huskes having in them white feede like the former : the roote is fender and woody, the wholeplantis bitter and har fh on the tongucand aftringenr, : ; 7. Gufragia lntea minor radice (quammata, The leffer yellow Eyebright. This leffer fort hatha fmooth Hollow ftalke a foote high or leffe, fet with branches and leaves by couples on them, whichafe like un:o the Germander,or Ivy leafed Chickeweede but longer poitited, che flowers ate yellow, but like unto thofe of the commonEyebright, the feede is {mall blacke and round, and pointed at the'ends, ftan- ding twotogether ona fimall footeftalke: the rooteis white and roundlike a butbe, cdnypoled offoure thicke coates or fcales lying clofe tegether, the whole plant is without tafte, and fome What refetablerh Fumiterry, buc Columnefaith that the rootes are like the Dentaria major of Adatthiolus,as the figure expreffethic. The Place and Time, “4 The firft and third aré onely.frequent in our Land,the former in many Meddowes and graffie places throughout out Country,and the other in many places of Kent,in the barrenfields and wafte grounds, both about Gravefend, and the tra¢ts thereabouits,and in many other places.the reft fomein Jtaly, and at Naples, ofin Spaine and Auftria, theyall for the moft part Hower not untill the end of Summer,the feede ripening withina whilé after. The Names, Stari have in our Cornefieldes in this Land,ewo forts of Corne Violers a greater and aleffe which fhalt be fhewed to you in this Chapter. BS I. Speculum Venerss majis, The greater Corne Violet. oN, Thegreater of thefe Violets hath fundry flender weake trayling ftalkes, lying onthe _ 2. Speculam Veneris minns,* The lefler Corne Violet. Fithiags t Thelefler fort groweth more uprightlike tntothelittle Centorywith ftiffer and fewer branches, more harfh or roughalfo in handling,the leaves are like unto the former but fomewhatleffe,at each joynt almolt come forth twoor three flowers, ftandingatthe ends'of long cods like unto Ly fimachia filiquofa, of the famefafhion and coIcur as the former,butfo femall as the eye ofa little birdneverrifing above the huskeit ftandeth in, and not butin the heate ofthe day to be feene,which thetvonely layeth it felfe open,the {edeis {mall and yellow as the fotmer : the rooteis {mall and annuallalfo. | é : 'Dhe Place and Time. : : : ; Thefirft groweth in thé Corne fields,betweene Greenchithe and “Dartfordin Kent, asalfoin the Cornefields abont Lify, a towne in the uctermoft part Of Hartfordpire,towards Bedford,che other about Hatfield, and in fine dry other placesin this land, being morefrequent by mach,and flowef froin Midfommeruntill the end of Anguft almoft,the fede ripening inthe meane time: : . The Names, _ : BS ‘ ; We have not underftood asyet by any that théleffer fore hath beene obferved by. any Authour beyond fea but ontly che former,which is called Onobrychis and Canspanaila arvenfis by Dodoneus and Lugdunenfis, and Onobrychig altera Belgaram by Lobel, Viola anonynsos inedora by Gée/ner,and Piola arvenfis,and Viola Pantagoniaby Tabermon~ sania but Speculats Venerss by Gerard, frotn the Dutches Vrowen[piegel,which is Venus looking Glafic.in Exglifo, x. SpeculumGeneris majys, ‘The greaterCorae Violer. 2. "Speculum Veneris minis. The leffct Come Violet, rnbra of Lugdunenfis, the Odostites of Tabermontanus the Ericoides rubram of Thalius and the Cratzogonon Euphrom reordothfoletit pafle. The fourth Bashing called in his Phytopinax, Branella Italica, but in his Pinax Eu- phrafia pratenfis Italsca latifolia, and in his Prodromus Exfrafiapurpureaminor, andisthe third Exfrafia non{eripta ». GG Ves N a als 3 gi Ser 4 Mts <\ Sam = WY BD our {trong Beere inthe fame manner, whichnodoubc would worke the like effectsy their Wine and curBeere having a like working, as we ufe with Wormewood, Scurvigraffe and the like) to helpe the dimneffe ofthe fight, and faith that the ufe thereofreftored old mens fight, to read {mall Letters without{peétacles, with Sugar, doth either way-tend to the fame effca. / ground, and ee rifing trom the roote.divided and fubdivided from every joynt into branches fo hat one plant growing in a good Garden ground, will be hardly covered witha pecke meafure, chickeplentifully,t fer without ondec! With {mall and fomewhat long leaves,flightly dentéd or rather waved on the edges, at every leafe from the mid dle upward, corameth forth a Hower,of the bigneffe ofa tive pence, fo (that fivehandred flowersalmoft, will be feene openat once,a goodly {pectacle) fer ina fine pointed greene buske,of faire purplith blew colour, made of one whole leafe, plaited into five round pointed ends,” White at the botcome,a wich a white pointell inthe mid. dlé,clofing up every night,and opening in the day oncly;the feed is yellow, and contained in {inal} long heads,the roote is {mall threddy,andannuall. 9 °°)?» ? ; ' B {ye of Gerard,who would needes makeita kinde of Crataogonon,again{t the faying of Dodonews, from whom he haththe moftthathe hath, faying ic cannot agree with Crateogonon, by the defect in manyparts, and yer his Cor. that could hardly read great ones with their fpectacles before: asalfo didteftore their fight that were blinde for a long time before. Ifthis drinke be not to be made or had, the pouther ofthe dryed herbe either mixed with Supar, afew Macesand Fennell feede, and drunke or catenin broth, or the faid pouthers made intoan Eledtuary 1331 Cwary Ty. Te iscalled Exfragiaand Eufrafia, and by foe onely thovght tobe ancientlycalled ivpe-avve,(yeris Exphrofyne The bitter tafte that is hercitt fhewethit to be hot and dry,and ise{pecially uled forall the difeafes of the eyes, that canfé dimneffe of the fight, fot cither the greene herbe or the dry, the juice or the diftilled water is, veryeffectoall forthe faid purpofe,to be taken either inwardly in wine or.in broth,or tobe dropped into the eyes, and ufed for divers dayestogether : Somealfo make a conferve of the flower to the fame effe@, Any of thefe wayeés ufed, it helpeth alfoa weake braine or metory,and re{toreth them-being decayed ina fhort time. Arnsldws de Villa nova, in his booke of wines, much commenderh the Wine made of Byebright, put into it when it ismew made, and beforeit worke (which becaufe we cannot makein our land, I could with thar the Eyebright might be tunned up with st tastes CHa P.4- Spectlam Uentrisfive Vaolapentagonas. ‘Thé Corne Violet. not knowne, nor defcribed by any of the former Greeke or Latine writers, ) for it is of later invention, andfor the effetscalled Ophthalmicaand Ocularia, ‘The firlt is generally called Enfrofia and Exfragia, or Expbragia by all Writers. The fecond is called by Columna Enfragia lin:folia, although the leaves bee farre lefie then thofe of Line or Flax: the third is the Enfragia altera ofDodonew,Lobel, and others, the Siderits pratenfis of Columne, The fifthis the Eufragia wsajor{ylveftrss purpurea latifolia of Columna. The fxth isthe Sideritis pratenfislutea of Lugdunenfis, Ericoideslutesm of Thalius, Odontites flore luteo of Tabermontanm, and the Enfragia [yloeftriy major lutea anguftifolia of Colamnag The laft Columna calleth Anonyma radice Dentariz, and Bauhinus Exphrafia lutea Alfinefolio radice fquammata. The Italians and Spaniards call it Enfrafia; the French Enfrafe, the Germanes Augencroft the Dutch Ooghentrooftand we Eyebright, The Vertues, ee lai The Theater of Planis. we Wy > iv N or”TI MiMm Ree”Ur aoeT lk B > UP Gi i, Xzxgz 2 |