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ARNALD’S ‘“‘OTHER VIOLET” 243 
De Viola purpurea, his text consists of the two lines on the violet 
in the Regimen Salernt, 
Crapula discutitur, capitis dolor, atque gravedo, * 
Purpuream Violam dicunt curare caducos ; + #. ¢., 
Intoxication it“dissipates, and a head full of pain and heaviness, 
And they say that the purple violet can cure the epileptic— 
in which the first line is to be accepted as relating to Viola odorata, 
but the second is the imported character from Aster Atticus. 
Of this second line Arnald says that “ this property appears to 
correctly understood { as belonging to that other kind of violet which 
possesses, in the middle of the violet, something resembling a col- 
lection of hair-like threads’’; 7. ¢., 
“ Videtur itaque accipiendum esse de altero flore, qui in medio 
Violae instar capillamentorum inest.”’ 
Arnald’s phrase may apply to a violet-rayed flower-head with 
slender or thread-like disk flowers forming its center; like Aster 
Amellus. He immediately proceeds to speak of other double 
flowers, quoting the words of Theophrastus, bk. I., c. 21, of “ the 
double flowers which have another flower in the midst, as the rose, 
the lily and Viola nigra,’’§ or, in original Greek, 
dcavbec, ... dare TO pddoy, xat TO xptvoy, xat toy TO pédav. 
Arnald seems to pass at once from reference to double flowers 
in the sense of radiate Compositae of two colors, like Aster Amellus, 
: Arnald appears (by name of Arnoldus de Nova Villa) in a woodcut showing him 
discussing plants with Avicenna, on the first page of the Vincentian edition (1491) of 
the Herbolarium or Aggregator practicus, causing many to credit him with authorship 
ofthat Ageregatur. Gesner in 1 552 pointed out the error. Yet the error has been so 
Persistent that it still appears in catalog so late as 1902. See infre, under the Aggre- 
&a@lor, 
* Taken from Macer F loridus, line 1350, 
Crapula discutitur bibitis, capitisque gravedo. 
+ This is line 1 353 of Macer Floridus, without change : : 
So Holland, also, the English translator, was surprised at finding this property 
ascribed to the violet; he rendered the line, p- 137; 
The smell of Violets doth soone allay, 
And cures the Falling sicknesse, as some Say; 
Seema ‘* Violets helpe them that have the Falling sicknesse. 
i yet this effect is not commonly ascribed unto Violets. And, 
. € this property it is but by reason of their sweet smell that com 
rr n, p. 67, transferred the property to the pansy. ; ae 
Arnald’s quotation of Theodorus Gaza’s translation of Theophrastus’ lov wéAav. 
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therefore, if Violets 
forteth the braine,”’ 
