The Vjarden of pleaf ant Flowers. 
Chap. X. 
Lcucoium bulbofum. The bulbous Violet. 
e Auingthusfetdowncthewholefamily,bothof the true and baftard Daffo- 
diis, I fhould next fet in hand with the Hyacinths ; but becaufe Leuceium bul- 
befum, Thebulbous Violet is a plant that doth challenge a place next vnto the 
Daffodils, as mod nearly partaking with them, and a little with the Hyacinthes, I muft 
of neceffity interpofethcm, and fhcw their defcriptions and differences, whereof fome 
are early, of the firft Spring, others later, and fome of the Autumne. 
Leuceium bulbefum precox mtius. The greater early bulbous Violet. 
This bulbous Violet hath three or foure very greene, broad, flat, and fhort leaucs, 
among which rifeth vp a naked greene ftalke, bearing out of a fmall skinny hofe (as the 
former Daffodils doe) one white flower, hanging downe his head by a very fmall 
foot-ftalke, made of fix leaucs , ofanequall length, euery onewhereofistiptatthe 
end with a fmall greenifh yellow fpot : after the flower is pafl,the head or fecd-vefTell 
groweth to be real'onable grear,fbmcwhat long and round, wherein is contained hard 
round feede , which being dry, is cleare , and of a whitifh yellow colour : the roote is 
fomewhat like a Daffodill rOote, and couered with a blackifh outfide or skinne. 
Leuceium bulbofum free ex minus. The Idler early bulbous Violet. 
This 1 effer kinde rifeth vp with two narrow grayifh greene leaues, between which 
commeth forth the ftalke, fiue or fix inches high, bearing onp fmall pendulous flower, 
confiding of three white leaues, which are fmall and pointed, (landing on the out- 
fide, and hauing three other fhorter leaues, which feetne like a cup in the middle, being 
each of them round at the ends, and cut in the middle , 'making the forme of an heart, 
with a greene tippe or fpot at the broad end or edgd : the feede is whitifh , inclofed in 
long and round heads , like the former, but lefTer : th‘e roote is like a fmall Daffodill, 
with a blackifh gray coate, and quickly diuideth into many of-fets. 
There is another of this kinde , that came among other bulbous rootes from Con * Mmus Byiftim 
ftantinople, and differeth in nothing from it, but that it is a little greater, both in root, «»*». 
leafe, and flower. 
The Place. 
The two firft are foundin many places of Germany, and Hungary. The 
third, as I faid, was brought from Conftantinople. 
The Time. 
The two lefTer forts doe moft commonly flower in February, if the wca= 
therbeanythingmilde,oratthefurthcftin the beginning of March, but 
the firft is feldome in flo wer,before the other be well ncare pad, or altoge- 
ther. 
• * The Names. 
ufiiisn e.( 0 . jcBJt . .;of*T 
Lobel andDodonatus Call the lefTer kinde LeUcomm MfhyUum , and Leu- 
conarcijfolirion triphyllum\ of the three leaues in the flower. Some doe call 
it Violu bulb oft alba. Thefirftor greater kinde is cal led by Lobel, Ltucenar- 
tiffelmtn paucioribus floribus 5 antfbyDodonatuS , EeueeiiiM bulbefum bext- 
pbyBssm. We doe moft vfual ly caftthem, £«<»**'» bulbofum true ex maius, & 
minus. The greater, or the lefTer early bulbous Violet. In Dutch, Somer 
Settekens , and not Druifkens , which are Grape- flowers, as fome haue 
thought. 
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Leuceium 
