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Of the iritftorie of Plants. 
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woort, but altogether leffer, and not fo hairy : from the bqfome of which leaues fhoot forth very 
beautiful! floures bell fafhion, of a bright purple colour, with a fmall pfeftle or clapper in the mid- 
dle, and in other refpe&s is like the precedent. 
£ 5 This from a wooddy and wrinkled root of a pale purple colour fends forth many rough 
crefted ftalkes of feme cubit high, which are vnorderly fet with leaues, long, rough, and fnipt 
lightly about their edges, being of a darke colour on the vpper fide, and ofawhjtifh on their vnder 
part At the tops of the ftalkes grow the Hounds, being many, and thicke thruft together, white of 
colour, and diuided into fine or feuen parts, each floure hauing yellowifh threds,and a pointall 
in their middles . It floures in Auguft,and was firft fet forth and deferibed by poha in his defcrip- 
tion of Mount Baldus. $ 
The firft deferibed and fometimes the fecond growes very plentifully in the low woods and 
hedge-rowes of Kent, about Canterbury, Sittingborne, Grauefend,Sou£hfleet,and Greenchyth, 
cfpccially vnder Cobham Parke- pale in the way leading from Southfleet to Rochefter, at Eltham 
about the parke there not farre from Greenwich ; in moll of the paftures about Watford and Bu- 
fhey, fifteene miles from London. 
£ - The third was kept by our Author in his Garden, as it is alfo at this day pre ferried in the 
garden of W.Parkinfon : yet in the yeere 1626 l found it in great plenty growing wilde vpon the 
bankes of the Ritter Oufe in Yorkfhirc. as I went from Yorke to vifite Selby the place whereas I 
was borne, being ten miles from thence. $ 
The fourth groweth in the medovv next vnto Dittonferrieas yougoeto Windfore, vpon the 
chalky hills about GreenehitheinKent ; andin a field by the highway as you gofrom thence to 
Dtirtford , in Henningham parke in Efta^ and in Sionmedow neere to Brandford, eight miles 
from London. 
The fifth grovveson Mount Baldus in Italy. 
All the kindes ofbell floures do floure and flourifh from May vntill the beginning of Auguft, 
except the laft, which is the plant that hath been taken generally for the Calathian violet, 
which floureth in the later end of September ; notwithftanding the Calathian violet or Au- 
tumne violet is of a mod bright and pleafant blew or azure colour, as thofe are of this kinde, al- 
though this plant fometimes changeth his colour from blew to whiteneffe by fome one accident 
or other. 
1 2 Throtewoort is called in Latine Ceruicaria, and Ceruicaria major : in Greeke, •• of 
moft, Vuuhria : of Fuch fine, Campanula in If utch.I^tllfCl'Uft * in Engiifh, Canterburie bells, 
Haskewoortc, Throtewoort, or Vuula woort, of thevertueithathagainft the paine and {welling 
- This is the Trachelium tri a ' hi B chrarum of Lobell, and the fame fas I before no reel) that 
our Author formerly fet forth by the name of Trachelium Giganteum, fo that I haue put them, as 
you may fee, together in the title of the plant . 
4 This is the Trachelium mains o{Dodonxus,Lobell,An& others : the Ceruicaria minor of Taberna- 
rnonums- and Vuularia exigua of Tragus ; Our Author gaue this alfo another figure and defeription 
by the name of Viola Calathian a, not knowing ’tit was the laft fane one which he had deferibed 
by the name of Trachelium minus. $ 
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A The Antients for any thing that we know ’ entioned,and therefore not fet downe 
any thin°- concerning the vertues of theleBe. 1 - a a aithftahding vvehaue foundinthcla- 
ter writers, as alfo ofour owne experience, thatthev . excellent good againft the inflammation 
of the thtote and Tuula ot almonds, and all manni v o crsandvlcerationsinthemouth,ifthe 
mouth and throte be gargarized and wafhed with the cir oAion of thermand they are of all other 
herbes the chiefe and ptincipall to be put into lotion? , or wafhing waters, to inie£t into the priuy 
parts of man or woman being boiled with hony and Allom in water, with fome white wine. 
7 he Place. 
«[| The Time. 
The Names. 
Thefe plants are cold and dry, as are mo : o r 1 Bel! floures. 
*! They- :es 
<n Tht nperature. 
