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Of the Hiifory of Plants. 
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«[ T hi Place. 
Thefe plants do grow wikl’c in Italy and the places adiaccnt. Norwithdar.dingour London 
gardens haue taken poflelfion of mod of them many ycares pad. 
The Time. 
■ The fil’d floureth in the beginning oflanuaryyhe fecond in September ; and the third in May. 
the redat their feafons mentioned in their deferiptions. 1 ’ ’ 
«[ The Names. 
t The firft is called of Thcophraftus, ; which Gafy renders Viola alba, and Viola Btdbofa , or 
Bulbed Violet. Lobelias hath from the colour and fhape called it Leuconarcijfolirion, and that very 
properly, confidering how it doth as it were participate of two fundry plants, that is to fay , the 
root of the Narcifus, the leaues of the final! Lilly, and the white colour; taking the fird part Leu - 
co, of his whitenefle ; Harcifo, of the likeneffe the roots haue vnto Nam (fix ; and Lirium , of the 
leaues of Lillies, as aforefaid. In Englifhwemay call it the bulbous Violet-, or after the Dutch 
name ,^omcC fOttCfcCll# ; that is, Sommer fooles,and ©£UPfhCU£. Some call them alfo Snow 
drops. This name£e«w'*ww, without his Epithite Bulbojiim, is taken for the Wall-floure,and dock 
Gillofloure,by all moderne Writers. 
The Nature and Virtues. 
Touching the faculties of thefe bulbous Violets we haue nothing to lay, feeing that nothin'? is 
fet downe hereof by the antient Writers, nor any thing obferued by the modderne; only they^ire 
maintained and cherilhed in gardens for the beautie and rareneffe of the floures,and fweetndTe of 
their fmell. 
Chap. 8 p. Of Turkic or (jinny ■'ben Flour e. 
X IrittilUrU . 
Checquered Daffodil/. 
2 FrittilUriavariegata. 
Changeable Checquered Daffodil, 
