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CHAP. LVI, 
» Of Corall-wort. 
: atti | The Names, as 
Everall Names have been given to this Plant, by later Writers; for itis 
conceived, that none of the Ancients, as Dio{corides or Pliny, 8c. took a- 
| ny cognizance of ir, Some have called it from the form and colour of the 
Roots Dentaria, Dentillaria, Coralloides, and eAlablaftrites, as Lobel, and 
Dentaria, Coralloide radice : All which Names do agree, both with the Plant, 
and place it here ftands in ; for, the Root of it beine white,fmooth, and fhining, 
as Teeth ought to be, ic was fitly named Destaria, Dentillaria, and eAlablaftri- 
ee end as fitly Sedierastt “ Dentaria Coralloide Radice: the divers {mal\ —_ 
obs fet together, whereof the Root is compofed, refembling the knaggy 
nences of the Corall, efpecially the white with which ic agrees in colour too,0- 
thers both trom the Root and Flowers, thar are like unto Stock-Gillow-F lowers, 
which were antiently comprehended under the. name of Viola, called it Viols 
Dentaria,as Dodonaxns, Wein Enolith call ic Toothed Violet, or Corall wort, 
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forts of Coralwore, 
V 3. Another pene Corallwort, 4.Tre- 
foile Corallwort. 5, Setfoile Corallwort. 6. Bulb 
narrow leafed Corallwort, 
> The Forme, 
The bulbe bearing Toothed Violet, fhooreth forth one ‘Or two wing 
vpon long brownith foot-ftalks,which in their rifing up ont of the groun 
it were doubled,or folded downwards,and then Sper tient lves in feaven leaves, 
moftufnally, and fomecimes but five, each whereof is fomewhat long dented a- 
he “edges, and poynted, ofa {ad green colour, and fer on both fides of the 
mic in againit another: ‘the ftalk that beareth Flowers, riferh up in the 
fame manner with the Leaves, andis bare, or naked of Leaves, unto the middle 
thereof, where it fhooreth forch a Leaf, and fo one or nwo more up higher, each 
confifting but of five Leaves, and fornetimes bur of three: having alfo the uppers 
ingieyat each whereof, commeth forth’a {mall round bulbe, cloven, or,as 
vided into fome parts or cloves, of a fad purplith, green colour, which 
_ =a und, will grow to be a Root, and bear Leaves, 
Inke asthe balbes d Lilly; about which, at the top, ftand fone or five 
Flowets,iwlong hasks, upon thért foor-Aalks opening into four leaves, ofa Pur- 
plith colour, very like unto the Flowers of Sseek-Gillom-Flawers, or Dames Vio- 
fess: after which come fmall, long Horns, or spoynted at the ends, where- 
in lye fuch like Seed, as are in the Cods of Dames Violets, which will, as foon 2s 
itis ripe, break the Podand fall out : the Root is very{mooth, white, and {hi- 
ning: it doth not grow cere a creepeth alone under the upper cruft of 
the gronnd;and confifteth of divets fmall, round knobs fet rogether:the 
‘Sfthe leaf and Root, is fomewhat bitter, hor, anddhatp like Radip. 
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