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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



Li 



B. 2 



Viola mariana. Blew Coucncry Bells 





«[[ The Place andTime. 



They grow in woods 3 mountaines 3 and dark (rallies 

 and vnder hedges among the bufhes,efpecially about 

 Couentry ,where they grow very plentifully abroad in 

 the fields,and are there called Couentry belJs 3 and of 



fome about London , Canterbury bells* but vnpro 

 perly, for that there is another kindeof Ecll-flourc 

 growing in Kent about Canterbury a which may more 

 fitly be called Canterbury Bells, becaufe they grovr 

 there more plentifully than in any other countrey. 

 Thefc pleafant Bell-floures wee haue in our London 

 gardens efpccially for the beauty of their floure, al- 

 though they be kinds of Rampions 5 and the roots ca- 

 ten as Rampions are. 



They floure in Iune , Iuly 3 and Auguft . the feed 

 waxethripe in the mean time j for thefe plants bring 

 not forth their floures all at once, but when one fiou. 

 reth another feedeth. 



^ The Names. 



Couentry bels are called in Latine Viola mvim • 

 in Englifli, ji/*rflW7*f VioIcts,or Couentry Rapcs,and 

 of fomejMariets. It hath bin taken zobc Medium } b\][ 

 vnfitly : of fome it is called Rapumfylvejlre .which the 



Greeks call ytftutyvm- 





^f The 2{dture and Fertues . 



The root is cold and fomewhat binding , and not 

 r vfed in phy fickc,but only for a fallet root boiled and 

 caten,with oiIe,vinegerjand pepper. 



C-H a v. 116. Of 'Throatwort^or Canterbury "Be Us. 



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Trachelium maju*. 



Blew Canterbury Bells 



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3 Trachel.majus Bdg.fwe Giganteum. GyantThroatwotr 





