L I B. 2 . 
Of the Hiliorie of Plants, 
■f 4 Leucoiiort fylnejlrc. 
Wilde tvallfloure. «; The Vefcriptiom 
1 *T He (talks of the Wall floure are full 
A of greene branches , the leaues are 
long, narrow, fmoorh, flippery, of a black idi 
greene colour . and lefTer than the leaues of 
ftocke Gillofloures. The floures are fmall, yel- 
low, very fweete of fmel!,and made of foure lit- 
tle lcaues-vvhich being pad,there fucceed Ion® 
{lender cods, in which is contained flat reddifh 
feed. The whole plant is fhrubby,of a wooddie 
fubftancr, and can eafily endure the colde of 
winter. 
2 The double Wall fioure hath long leaues 
greene and fmooth,fec vpon ftiffe branches, ofa 
wooddie fubdance : whereupon do grow molt 
plealant fweet yellow flours verydoublejwhich 
plant is fo well knownc to all, thatitfihallbe 
needleffe to fpend much time about the de- 
fer iption. 
3 Of this double kinde we haue another 
fort that bringethhis floures open all at once 
whereas the other doth floure by degrees, by 
meanes whereof it is long in flouring. 
t 4 This plant which was formerly fea- 
ted in the fourth place of the following chap- 
ter,! haue brought to enjoy the fame place ‘in 
this, for that by reafon of thegreenefle of his 
leaues and other things he comes neared to 
thefe here defcribed,alfo I wil deferibe it anew 
becaufe the former was almoft wholly falfe : It 
hath many greene leaues at the top of the root like to thefe of the wall floure, but narrower, and 
bitter of tafteiamong which life vp one or more ftalks of a foot or more in height, crefted and fet 
with carinated leaues. The floures grow at the tops of the dalkes many together, confiding of 
foure yellow leaues a piece, lelfer than thofe of the ordinary Wall floures ; there floures are fuccee- 
ded by long cods containing a flat feed . The root is long and whitifh,with many fibres. 
5 Befides thefe, there is in fomc gardens.kept another wall-floure differing from the firftin the 
bigneffe of the whole plant, but efpecially of the floure, which is yellow and Angle, yet very large 
and beautiful 1. 
6 Alfo there is another with very greene leaues, and purewhiteand well fmelling floures. t 
The Place. 
Thefirdgrowethvpoij bricke and flone walls, in the corners of churches euery where, as alfo 
among rubbifh and fuclT other ftony places. 
The double Wall-floure groweth in mod gardens of England. 
•j T he Time. 
They floure for the mod part all theyeere long, but efpecially in winter, whereup on the people 
in Chefhiredocall them Winter-Gillofloures. 
The Names. 
The Wallfloure is called in GreekeM^mw, in Latine, Viola lutea, and Leucoium luteum in the 
Arabicke tongue, Kcyrt : in Spanifh ,^ iolettas Amarillas :in Dutch, HUlOlUt'ftl * in French, Girofflees 
iaukusj'ioliercs des murailles : in Englifh, Wall- Gillofloure, Wall-floure, yellow ftocke Gillo- 
floure,and Wintcr-Gillofloure. 
The Temperature. 
All the whole fhrub of Wall-Gilloflouresjas Galen faith, is of a clenfing faeultyj and of thinne 
parts. 
TheVertues. 
Diofcorieles vvriteth that the yellow Wall-floure is mod vfed in phyficke,and more than the red ^ 
of docke-Gillofloures, whereof this is holden to be a kinde : which hath mooued me to preferre it 
vnto the fird place. He faith, that the juice mixed with fome vn&ious or oilic thing, and boiled 
to the forme of a lyniment, helpeth the chops or rifts of the fundament. 
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