Lib. i. 
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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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t The roots preferued with fugar, or otherwifedreffed, may.be eaten, and areno vnpfeafent A 
nor any way offenfiuc meat, but rather good and nourifhing. £ * ~ n 
hath mentioned one kinde of bulbous irecwow, which Ga\a tranllntes Viola alba t 
or the white Violet. Of this Viola T hcophrafii, or Theophraflushh Violet,we haue obferued 
three forts,whereof fomc bring forth many floures and leaues, others fewer 5 ibipe floure very 
, early, and others later, as lhall be declared, 
1 '"pHcfirft of thefe bulbous Violets rifeth out of the ground, withtwofmall leaues flat 
J. and crefted, ofan ouenvorne greene colour, betweene the which rifeth vp a fmall and 
tender ftallce of two hands high; at the top whereof commeth forth of a skinny hood 
almall white floure ofthebigneffeofa Violet, compaft of fix leaues, three bigger,and three lef- 
ler, tipped at the points with a light greene : the fmaller are fafhioned into the vulgar forme of a 
heart, and pretily edged about with greene ; the other three leaues are longer, and llrarpe pointed. 
The whole floure hangeth downe his head, by reafon of the weake foot ftalke witereon it groweth 
The root is fmall, white, and bulbous. 
t 2 There are two varieties ofthis kind which differ little in fhape, but the firft hathafloure 
asbiggeagaineas theordinarie one, and Clufius calls it Leticoium bulbofum prtecox Bfz,antinum The 
greater early Conftantinopolitan bulbous Violet. The other is mentioned by Lobel^ and differs 
onely in colour of floures ; wherefore he calls it Leticoium trifhjllum Rorecxrtdeo, The blew floured 
bulbous Violet. 
C h a p. 88. Of 'Bulbous Violets , 
The Kindts. 
I Leticoium bulbofum pracox minus. 
Timely flouring bulbous Violet. 
t 2 Leucoium bulboftmprxcox ByUnt'tmm. 
The Byzantine early bulbous V iolet. 
The Dcfcriplion. 
