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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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IB. I. 







Chap. iq8 



Of Lalathian Violet, or ^Autumne "Bell^floure, 



% T he D efcripion . 



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AMong the number of the baft Gentians there is a final plant,which is late before it comn^ 

 v^hamngftalkesafpanhig^and fometimes higher, narrow leaues like vntoTirTS 



iu a £ M ^*° atthK „ lk ? k ? b y cert *™ diftances: long narrow floures growing at t£ to J 

 the ftalkes, Iikea cup called a Beaker,wide at the top, and narrower toward the bottome of a lit 

 blew colour tending to purple,with certaine white threds or chines in the bottome : ffi 

 the mouth or brim is fine cornered before it be opened,but when it is opened it appeared SZ 

 clifts or pleats. The whole plant is of a bitter tafte, which .plainely fheweth ku b a de " 



felfe by falling of the fame. 



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Fneumonmthe. 



Calathian Violet. 



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It is found foraetimes in rMedowes,oftentimes in 

 yntilled places. It groweth vpon Long-field dowries 

 in Kent, neere vnto a village called Longfield by 

 Grauefend, vpon the Chalkie cliffes ncere Greene- 



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This plant I neuer found but once, and chap 

 was on a wet Moorifli ground in LincolnfhitCjWoor 

 three miles on this fide Cafter,and as I remember,tbc 

 place is called Netleton Moore. Now I fufpedthac 



our 



with leaues likevnto Time, when as this hath long 

 narrow leaues more like to Hy flop or Rofemary. Se 

 condly, for that hee faith the root is fmall and per 

 fheth when as it hath perfe&ed the feed:whereasflns 



th 



root 



on wet Moorifli grounds and Heaths : wherefore! 

 fufped out Author tooke the fmall Antumne Gen- 

 tian (defcribed by me in the fourth place of the w 

 Chapter) for this here treated of. $ 



9fi The Time, 



The gallant floures hereof bee in their braar 

 about the end of Auguft,and in September. 



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thousht to be 



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to know more of this may haue recourle to the twelfth chapter of the firft booke of the 2. {""/' 

 Ttodan. his Latine Herball, whence our Author tooke thofe words that was formerly in this pi* > 



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named in the Germane tongue 3 )Lutig;en blUlltCIt, or Lung-floure:in Engli{b,AutumneB 

 Calathian Violets,and of fome^arueft-bels. 



^J The Temperature. 

 This wilde Felwoort or Violet is in Temperature hot, fbmewhat like in faculty to 

 whereof it is a kinde, but far weaker in operation. 



Gentian^ 



gings of venomous beads. 



^[ The Fertues. 



effe&uallaeainft oeftilent difeafes. 



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and (to' 



Chap 



