T be (garden of plea) ant Plovers* 
former, of a faire pale yellow colour, with fome yellower ftripes now and then about 
the middle 5 for it is fometimes without any ftripes , and alfo ofa little deeper yellow- 
colour : this is to bee encreafed by flips , which will foone comprehend in a moift or 
moiftened ground, for that I neucr could obferuc that it bore feede. 
The Place. 
Thefe plants were firftwilde, and by manuring brought to be both fai* 
rer in colour, and pcraducnture ofa better fent then when they grew wilde. 
The Time. 
The Violets flower in March, and fometimes earlier, and if the yeare be 
temperate and milde, in Autumne againe. The double Violets, as they are 
later before they flower then the Angle , fo they hold their flowers longer. 
The Harts cafe flowreth feldome vntill May; but then fome will abide to 
flower vntill the end of Autumne almoft,efpecially if the frofts be not early. 
The Names. 
The Violet is called Vi»U m&r*, purpuret, and Mirth : In Englilh, Vi- 
olets, March Violets, and purple Violets. The Harts eafe is called rioU 
fltmmet, VtoU trktlor, multicolor , and of fom c,Ucet, fits trinitdtii , 
and Herb* cUutUntt : In Englilh, Harts eafe, and Panfies,of the French name 
tenfeis. Somegiueitfoolilbnames,asLoucinidleneire, Cullmeetoyou, 
and Three faces in a hood. The great yellow Harts eafe is fo called, be- 
caufeit is like in forme, and is the greateft of all other, although it haue not 
that aiuerfity of colours in it that the other haue. 
The Vertues. 
The properties of Violets are fufficiently knowne to all, to cooleand 
moiften : I (hall forbeareto recite the many vertues that may be let downe, 
and onely let you know, that they haue in them an opening or purging qua- 
lity, being taken either frefti and grecne, or dryed, and made into powder, 
efpccially the flowers j the dryed leaues will doc the like, but in greater 
quantity. Coftarusin his.bookeofthe nature of all plants faith, that the di- 
foiled water of Harts eafe, is commended in the French difeafe, to be pro- 
fitable, being taken for nitie dayes or more , and fweating vpon it , which 
how true it is, I know not , and wifh fome better experience were made of 
it, before we put any great confidence in that aflertion. 
tiN v. 
C H AP. LIII. 
EtimeHiitm. Barren wort. 
o : i , -'solfoi •' !.:• oV.-.-Isjmiftpiig,'»# 
T His pretty plant rifeth vp out of the ground with vpright , hard , round, fmall 
ftalkes, a foote and a halfe high, or not two foote high at the higheft , diuided 
into three branches for the moft part , each branch whereof is againe diuided 
for the moft part into three other branches , and each of them bedre three leaues (fel- 
dome either more or lefle)fet together, yet each vpon his owne foote- ftalke, each 
leafe being broad, round, and pointed at the end, fome what hard or dry in feeling, 
hayric, or as it Were prickly about the edges, but very tenderly , without harmc, ofa 
light greene colour on the vpperfide, and a little whiter vaderneath : from the middle 
of the ftemmeor ftalke of leaues doth likewife come forth another long ftalke, not 
much higherthen thofe with the leaues on them , diuided into other branches , each 
whereof 
