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$5 o Of the Hiflorie of Plants. ~7 



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teft ornamentof all, chiefeft beauty, and moft excellent grace, and the r " " 



which is taken hereby cannot be but very good and honeft $ for'thev admoSftf l^Aa • the mic<, c 

 to that which is comely and honeft ; for floures through their beautv vari J™f I . e V P a ra *> 



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would be an vnleemly and filthy thinefas a certain li ?r COmI,nc <Te, 

 »d handle faire and bLtiful tW^SSSt^ 



filthy and deformed 



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* X?' b / 3 f k • 7 PUr 5 I? Xf 0, 7 d ° th f ° J rthv, : ith brin S from tbe root many Jeaues h__ 

 J ileightly indented m the edges,rounder than theleaues of Iuyamon ZS u' 



of fpnng vp fine (lender ftems,and vpon euery one a beautiful! flour iW Z r u "' 

 of a blew darkift purple, confiftiagof fiue little Ieaues, the loweft wbJ^TS^S^' 

 them do appeare little hanging cups or knaps,which when they be ripe do open and dS It* [ 

 fclues into three parts. The feed is f_a], long, and fomw hat round withall : the root confift Ur 

 manv thready urines. wuiutcin of 



many threddy firings. 



I FieU nigra fiue purpurea. 



The purple gardenViolet 





2 Viola florealho. 



The white garden Violet. 





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dent ; IhewS B" 1 ? Y^ kt bath . maa y mi }^ white flourcs,in forme and figure like tbe prc«- 



5 Th do2 ^I^ 0f ^° U , reS if fp if f ia "y fe " ethfo »h the difference. * 

 Violet • d i ffeX inr^y 10 ^ ^ ea , UeSj Cree P in S branches, and roots like the garde*. H\ 

 the othU «„„! " g ln tnac »«wt this Violet bringeth forth moft beautifull fweet double floureM* 



the other fingle. 



colt>ur ; fo e r a^lS^?^*^ ¥«» wi * the other of his kinde,difFeringoneIy in the 

 rerh double white flout "v5 bl1 ?^? doubIe bl w « P^ple flours,contrariwife this plant bca- 



K The veHnw XT' i * . f lcn ma keth the difference. 



but vpon moft Neli .and \crlJ "^ ° ne of tIle vviIde V ' oIets > for if g roweth rddotn any , W • « 

 the ^J^i;?^S!P.^^}»^> from whence it hath been diners times brought into 



And b y the relation of a ^l^S^ZZZI 



induftric 



> found it 

 growing 



