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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
L I B. 2 
«U Their Temperature and Virtues. 
Thefe by their tafteand forme fhould be much like to the greater Gentians in their operation 
and working, yet not altogether fo effeduall. t 
Chap. 10 6 . Of (^alathian Violet, or <iAutumne 'Bel-floure. 
*|f The Dcfcription. 
A Mong the numberof thebafe Gentians there is a final plant, which is late before it commeth 
vp,hauing ftalk s a fpan high, and fometimes higher, narrow leaties likevnto Time,fet by cou- 
ples about the ftalkes by certaine diftances : longhollovv fioures growing at the top of the (talks, 
like a cup called a Beaker, wide at the top, and narrower toward the bottome, of a deepe blew co- 
lour tending to purple, with certain white threds or chiues in the bottome: the fioure at the mouth 
or brim is flue cornered before it be opened, but when it is opened it appeareth with fiueclifts or 
pleats. The whole plant is of a bitter tafte, which plainly fheweth it to be a kinde of wilde Genti- 
an. The root is fmall,and perifheth when it hath perfected his feed,and recouertth it felfeby fal- 
ling of the fame. 
Pneumonanthe'. 
Calathian Violet. 
^ The Place. 
Ztt\ j t j s found fometimes in Meadowes, oftentimes in 
vntilled places. It groweth vpon Long-field downes in 
Kent,neere vnto a village called Longfield by Grauef- 
end,vpon thechalkie cliffes neere Greene-Hythe and 
Cobham in Kent, and many other places. Itlikewife 
groweth as you ride from Sugar-loafeliillvnto Bathe, 
in the Weft countrey. 
f This plant I neuer found but once,apd that was on 
a wet Moorifh ground in Lincolnfhire, 2 tor 3 .miles on 
this fide Cafter,and as I remember, the place is called 
NetletonMoore.Now I fufped that our Authourknew 
itnotjfirft,becaufehe deferibes itwithleaueslike vnto 
Time, when as this hath long narrow leau'es more like 
to Hy (fop or Rofemary. Secondly, for that he faith the 
root is final! & perifheth when as it hath perfeded the 
feedivvhereas this hath a lining, ftringie and creeping 
root. Befides, this feldome or neuer growes onchaikie 
cliffes, but on wet Moorifh grounds and Heaths:where- 
fore I fufped our Authour tooke the fmall Autumne 
Gentian (deferibed by me in the fourth place of the laft 
Chapter) for this here treated of. $ 
% The Time. 
The gallant fioures hereof be in their brauerie about 
the end of Auguft,and in September. 
The Names. 
i This is thought to be Viola Calalhianaof Ruellius , 
yet not that of Pliny ; and thofe that defire to know more of this may haue recourfe to the twelfth 
chapter of the firft bookeof tha.Pempt. of Tsodon.hls Latine Herball, whence our Authour tooke 
thofe words that were formerly in this place, though hedidnotwell vnderftard nor expreffe 
them It is called Viola Autumnalis, or Autumne Violer,and feemetli to bee the fame that Vale- 
rius Cor due doth call Pnetmonanthcpvhich he faith is named in the Germane tongue jLungcn blu® 
Itten, or Lung-floure : in Englifh, Autumne Bel-floures, Calathian Violets, and of fomc, Harueft- 
bels. 
% The Temperature. 
This wilde Felwoort or Violet is in Temperature hot, fomewhatlike infacultie to Gentian, 
whereofitisa kinde,butfarweakerin operation. 
^y The Virtues . 
. The latter Phy fi tions hold it to be effeduall againft peftilent difeafes,and the bitings & Ring- 
ings of venomous beads. 
