Li Bo 2. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
5 Lettcoium fpinofum Creticum. 
Thornie Stocke Gillouets. 
_ 
. This kinde of Stocke Gillofloure 
that beareth floures of the colour of a 
Violet, that is to fay of a blew tending 
to a purple colour, which fetteth forth 
thedifference betwixt this plant Stthe 
other ftocke Gilloflourespn cuery other 
felpeft is like the precedent. 
2 There were formerly ? figures 
of the (Ingle Stocks,which differ th no- 
thing but the colour of their floures; 
wherefore we haue made them content 
with one,& haue giuen (which was for- 
merly wanting)a figure of the double 
Stock, ofwhich there are many and pret.- 
tie varieties kept in the garden of my 
kirtde friend W. Ralph Tfafye at VVeft- 
minfter,and fet forth in the booked of 
fuch as purpofely treat of fldures and 
their varieties. f: 
t 5 To thefelthinkeitnotamiffeto 
adde that plant which Clufius hath fet 
forth vnder the name of Lmcotum fpino- 
fum Creticum. It grovves fomc foot or 
more high, bringing forth many ftalkes 
which are o fa grayiih colour,and armed 
at the top with many and ftrong thorny 
prickles : the Ieaues which adorne thefe . 
ftalkes are like thofe of the ftocke Gil- 
louer, yet tefle and fomewhat hoary ; tlie 
floures are like thofe of Mnlleine,of a 
whitifh yellow colour, with fome purple threds in their middles ; the cods which fucceede the 
floures are fmall and reund,containirig a little feed in them. They vfe, faith Hononus BeUus.to heat 
ovens therewith in Candy, where it plentifully growes ; and by reafon of the fimilitude which the 
prickles hereof haue with Stocbe and the white colour, they cal it GalaStivida, or Galafiivida^ and not 
becaufeit yeeldsmilke, which GalaCx gnifies. 
«[ The Place. 
x. 2. Thefe kindes of Stocke Gillofloures do grow inmoft Gardens throughout England, 
5J The Time. 
They floure in the beginning of the Spring, and continue flouring all the Sommer long. 
The Names. 
The Stocke Gillofloure is called in Greeke w'/Viq Latine, Viola alba : in Italian , Viola bi/mca 
in Spanifh/rio/'ft,w bUnquas : in Englifh, Stocke Gillofloure, Garnfey Violet, and Caftle Gillo- 
floure. 
‘ ,f The Temperature and Verities . 
They are referred vnto the VVal-floure, although in yertue much inferiour ; yetare they not vfed A 
in Phyficke, except amongft certaine Empericks and Quackfaluers,about loue and lull matters, 
which for modeftie I omit. 
Ioachimns Cj«?fr<!ri*rreporreth,'thataconferuemade of the floures of Stocke Gillofloure, and £ 
often giuan with the diftilled water thereof, prelerueth from the Apoplexy, and helpeth the palfie. 
C h a P.121, Of Sea Stocky (jillofloures. 
5f The Kindes , 
Stocke Gillofloures that grow neere vnto the Sea there bee diuers and fundrie forts,, 
differing as well in Ieaues as floures * which fhall bee comprehended in this Chapter next 
following, 
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