a T be Garden of pleafant Flowers. Se 
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: 3. Lyfimachia lates filiquofa Virgians. The tree Primrofe of Virginia. ; 
- Vato whattribe or kindred I might referre this plant,I haue ftood long in {uf} pence,in 
ard I makeno mention of any other Lyfmachia in this work ; left therfore it thould 
ig be all place, let me ranke it here next vato the Dames Violets, although I confeffe 
. jthath litele affinity witchthem. The firftyeare of the fowing the feede it abideth 
withourany ftalke or flowers lying vpon the ground , with divers long and narrow 
pale greene leaues,fpread oftentimes round almoft like a Rofe,the largeft leaues being _ 
— outermoft, andvery {mall inthe middle : about May the nextyeare the ftalke rifeth, 
which will be in Summer of the height of a man, and of a ftrong bigge fizealmofttog 
mans thumbe, round fromthe bottometothe middle, where it groweth crefted vpto 
the toppe, into as many parts asthereare branches of flowers,cuery one hauinga {mall _ 
leafeat the footethereof: the flowers ftand in order one aboue another, round about — 
the topsof the ftalks,cuery one vpona fhortfoot-ftalke,confifting of foure pale yellow — 
leaues, felling fomewhat like vntoa Primrofe, asthe colour isalfo(which hath cay. 
.. fedthename)and ftanding in agreene huske, which parteth it felfe atthetoppeinto — 
_ foure parts or leaues, and turne themfelues downewards, lying clofetotheftalke: the _ 
+ flower hath fomechiues in themiddle, which being paft , there come in their places _ 
nee AN EE fey ees Saga ge vpper ead, and round belowe, opening — 
at the toppe when it is ripe into fiue parts, wherein is contained {mall brownith feed: © 
he head, and weoddy , and branched forth dinerfly, — 
~“"Thetwo firft grow forthe moft part on Hils and in Woods, but withys - 
in Gardens onely, , 4 =" he 
The laft, as may be well ynderftood by the title, came out of Virginia, 
| ‘They flower in May, Tune, and Iuly. | 
4B TheNames, Wie 
| ~The name of se/perisisimpofed by moft Herbarifts vpon the two fr 
- ‘plants , although it isnot certainly knowne to be the Guechas Theophra- 
fits doth make mention of, in his fixth Booke and twenty fue Chapter de 
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caufis plantaram :but becaufe this hath the like effects to finell beft in the, 
the roote is fomewhat great at: 
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-\. euening, itis (as I faid) impofedvpon it. Itisalfo called Viole Marina Mar 
\ tramalis, Hyemalis, Damefeena and Mufchatella : In Englith, Dates Violets, 
_ Queens Gilloflowers, and Winter Gilloflowers. — 
_ Thelaft hath his Latine name in thetitle as is beftagreci 
forthe Englith , although itbe too foolithI cenfeffe, 
suen, ale! feyoupleafe.to fo! ; 
‘this time till a fitcerb 
