262 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



Inter Echinopodas ve/uf afperam, & inter Ononim, 

 Interdum crefcunt mollia Leucoia. 



Which fheweth, that the foft or gentle ftocke gilloflowers doe fometimes 

 grow among rough or prickely Furfe and Cammocke. The other forts are 

 only to be found in gardens. 



The Time. 



They flower in a manner all the yeare throughout in fome places, efpe- 

 cially fome of the fmgle kindes, if they ftand warme, and defended from 

 the windes and cold : the double kindes flower fometimes in Aprill, and 

 more plentifully in May, and lune ; but the double of feed, flowreth vfually 

 late, and keepeth flowring vnto the winter, that the froftes and colde 

 miftes doe pull it downe. 



The Names. 



It is called Leucoium, & Viola alba : but the name Leucoium (which is in 

 Englifh the white Violet) is referred to diuers plants ; we call it in Englifh 

 generally, Stocke gilloflower, (or as others doe, Stocke gillouer) to put a 

 difference betweene them, and the Gilloflowers and Carnations, which are 

 quite of another kindred, as mall be fhewne in place conuenient. 



The Vertues. 



Thefe haue no great vfe in Phyfick that I know : only fome haue vfed the 

 leaues of the fmgle white flowred kinde with fait, to be laid to the wrefts of 

 them that haue agues, but with what good fucceffe I cannot fay, if it hap- 

 pen well I thinke in one (as many fuch things elfe will) it will fayle in a 

 number. 



CHAP. XL I. 



1 . Hefperis) Jiue Viola Matronalis. Dames Violets, 



or Queenes Gilloflowers. 



THe ordinary Dames Violets, or Queene Gilloflowers, hath his leaues broader, 

 greener, and fharper pointed, then the Stock gilloflowers, and a little endented 

 about the edges : the rtalkes grow two foot high, bearing many greene leaues 

 vpon them, fmaller then thofe at the bottome, and branched at the toppe, bearing ma- 

 ny flowers, in fafhion much like the flowers of ftocke gilloflowers, confifting of foure 

 leaues in like manner, but not fo large, of a faint purplifh colour in fome, and in others 

 white, and of a pretty fweet fent, efpecially towards night, but in the day time little or 

 none at all : after the flowers are part, there doe come fmall long and round pods, 

 wherein is contained, in two rowes, fmall and long blacke feede : the roote is wholly 

 compofed of ftringes or fibres, which abide many yeares, and fpringeth frefh ftalks 

 euery yeare, the leaues abiding all the Winter. 



2. He f per is Pannonica. Dames Violets of Hungary. 



The leaues of this Violet are very like the former, but fmoother and thicker, and 

 not at all indented, or cut in on the edges : the flowers are like the former, but of a 

 fullen pale colour, turning themfelues, and feldome lying plaine open, hauing many 

 purple veines, and ftreakes running through the leaues of the flowers, of little or no 

 fent in the day time, but of a very fweete lent in the euening and morning ; the feedes 

 are alike alfo, but a little browner. 



3. Lyfimachia 



