194 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



middle then at both ends, growing lefle by degrees each way, fpotted and ftriped all 

 ouer the leaues with white lines and fpots : the ftalke rifeth vp halfe a foote high or 

 more, bearing at the toppe one flower and no more, hanging downe the head, larger 

 then any of the other of this kinde that follow, made or confiding of fix white long 

 and narrow leaues, turning themfelues vp againe, after it hath felt the comfort of the 

 Sunne, that they doe almoft touch the ftalke againe, very like vnto the flowers of Cy- 

 clamen or Sowebread : it hath in the middle of the flower fix white chiues, tipt with 

 darke purple pendents, and a white three forked ftile in the middle of them : the flower 

 hath no fent at all, but commendable onely for the beauty and forme thereof: after 

 the flower is part, commeth in the place a round head feeming three fquare, contai- 

 ning therein fmall and yellowifh feede. 



Dens Caninus Jiore purpurafcente. Dogs tooth with a pale purple flower. 



This other Dogs tooth is like vnto the former, but lefler in all parts, the leafe 

 whereof is not fo long, but broad and fhort, fpotted with darker lines and fpots : the 

 flower is like the other, but fmaller, and of a delayed purple colour, very pale fome- 

 times, and fometimes a little deeper, turning it felfe as the other, with a circle round 

 about the vmbone or middle, the chiues hereof are not white, but declining to purple : 

 the roote is white, and like vnto the former, but lefler, as is faid before. 



Dens Caninus fare rubro. Dogs tooth with a red flower. 



This is in all things like vnto the laft, both for forme and bignefle of flower and 

 leafe : the chiefe difference confifteth in this, that the leaues hereof are of a yellowifh 

 mealy greene colour, fpotted and ftreaked with redder fpots and ftripes, and the 

 flower of a deeper reddifh purple colour, and the chiues alfo more purplifh then the 

 laft, in all other things it is alike. 



The Place. 



The forts Dens Caninus doe growe in diuers places; fome in Italy on 

 the Euganean Hils, others on the Apenine, and fome about Gratz, the chiefe 

 Citie of Stiria, and alfo about Bayonne, and in other places. 



The Time. 



They flower in March moft vfually, and many times in Aprill, accor- 

 ding to the feafonablenefle of the yeare. 



The Names. 



Clufius did call it firft Dentali, and Lobel, and from him fome others Sa- 

 fyrium, and Erythronium, but I haue faid enough hereof in the beginning of 

 the Chapter. It is moft commonly called Dens Caninus, and we in Englifh, 

 either Dogs tooth, or Dogs tooth Violet. Gefner called it HermodaStylus, 

 and Matthiolus Pfeudohermodaftylus. 



The Vertues. 



The roote hereof is held to bee of more efficacy for venerous effedts, 

 then any of the Orchides and Satyrions. 



They of Stiria vfe the rootes for the falling lickneffe. 



Wee haue had from Virginia a roote fent vnto vs, that wee might well 

 iudge, by the forme and colour thereof being dry, to be either the roote of 

 this, or of an Orchis, which the naturall people hold not onely to be fingu- 

 lar to procure luft, but hold it as a fecret, loth to reueale it. 



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