

Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 





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cubits/ct with fnch like Jeaues : the floures come forth at the tops of the branches,of a faire oumt. 

 colour.very like thofc of the ftock Gillofloures, of a very fweet fmell j after which come vp \£1 

 cods wherein iscontaincd fmall longblackifc feed. The root is flender and threddy. ° 



The Queens white Gillofloures are like the laft mentioned, failing that this plant brines for* 

 faire white floures,and the other purple. "fcsiortb 



t 2 By theinduftry of fome of our Florifls,within thefe two or three years hath bin biourtr 

 vnto our knowledge a very beautifull kind of thefe Dame Violets, hauing very faire double whir, 

 floures : the leaues, ftalks,and roots are like to the other plants before defciibed. * 



Viola Matron alts floreyurpureo, put alfo. 



Purple or white Dames Violets. 



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VioU <Jtatronalis flore ob[okt { 



Ruffet Dames Violets. 



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This plant hath a ftalke a cubit highland is diuided into many branches,vpon which in 





a confufed order grow leaucs like thofeof the Dames violet,yet a little broader and thicker, being 

 fir ft of fomewhat an acide , and afterwards of an acride taftc ; at the tops of the branches in long 

 cups grow floures like thofeof the Dames violct^confifting of foure leaues, which ftandnot fa"* 

 open,but are twined afide, and arc of an ouerworne ruflet colour, compofed as it were of a yellow 

 and browne,with a number of blacke purple veins diuaricated ouer them. Their fmellon the -day 

 time is little or none , but in the euening very pleafing and fweet. The floures arc fucceeded I bv 

 long and here and there fwolne cods, which are almoft quadrangular, and containea reddith w 

 like that of the common kinde. The root is fibrous, and vfually Hues not aboue two yeares, fas- 

 ter it hath borne feed it dies 5 yet if you cut it downeand keepcit from feeding,itfometimesp« c 

 forth fhoots whereby it may be increafed. I very much fufpe& that this figure and JDcfcnp* 10 

 wh ich I here giiie you taken out of Clttfiusjs no other plant than that which is kept in fomecrt ou^ 

 gardens, and fet forth in the Hortm Ejfiettenfis by the name of Ltncoium <jMelmcholicum : N ° ;V 

 " idgc the occafion of this error to haue come from the figure ofduftus which we here prefenc J 

 ith,for it is in many particulars different from thedefcription ; firft in that it express not na 

 branches : fecondly,in that the leaues are not fnipt and diuided ;thirdly,in that the floures are 

 exprcft wrefted or twined : fourthly,the veines are not rightly expreft in the floure : and IjftjJ > 

 cods are om itted.No w the Lencoinm mtlmcholicum hath a hairy ftalk diuided into fundry j> ran - i: 

 qf the height formerly mentioned,and the leaues about the middle of the ftalke are k^* ^ ^ 



ated or deepely or vnequally cut in . The ftiape and colour of the floure is the fame with th a ' 



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