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4„<5z Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
two cubits, fet with fitch like leaues : the floures come forth at the tops of the branches, of a faire 
purple colour, verie like thofe of the ltocke Gillofloures, of a very fweet frnell, after which come 
vp long cods, wherein is contained lmalliongblackifh feed. The root isflenderand threddie. 
The Queenes white Gillofloures are like the laft before rememb red, failing that this plant 
bringeth forth faire white floitres,and the other purple. 
4 i By the induftrie of fome of our Floriils, within this two or three yeares hath bec-ne 
brought to our knowledge a very beautifull kinde of thefe Dame Violets, hauing very faire dou- 
ble w hite floures, the leaues,ftalks and roots, are like to the other plants before deferibed.f; 
X F?oU Matronal# florepurpureo, five alia, i j Viola matronalisflore obfoleto. 
Purple, or white Dames Violets. Ruffet Dames Violets. 
rj: 5 This plant hath a ftalke a cubit high, and is cliuided into many branches, vpon which in 
aconfufed order grow leaues like thole of the Dame Violet,yet a little broader and thicker,being 
firft of fomewhat an acide, and afterwards of an acride tafte ; at the tops of the branches in long 
cups grow floures like thofe of the Dames violet, confiding of foure leaues, which ftand nor faire 
open, but are twined afide,and are ofa ou'ervvorn ruflet colour, compofed as it were of a yellow and 
browne with a number of biucke purple veines diuaricated otter them. Their fraction the day 
time is little or none, but in the euening verypleafing and fweet. The floures are fucceeded by 
long, and here and there fwolnccods,whicharealmoft quadrangular and containe a reddifh feed, 
like that of the common kinde. The root is fibrous, and vfually liues not aboue two yeares, for af- 
ter it hath borne feed it dies ; yet if you cut it downe and keepe it from feeding,it fometimes puts 
forth fhouts whereby it may bee increafed. ' I very much fufpedt that this figure and defeription 
which I here giue you taken out of Clu[tutjs no other plant than that which is kept in fome of our 
gardens,andfetfoorth in the Hortus Eyftettcnjis by the name of Leucoium tMeltmcholicum: now I 
nidge the occafionof this error to hauecome from the figure of Clujiuc which we here prefent you 
witb,foritis in many particulars different from the defeription: firft in that it exprefles notma- 
ny branches: fecondly, in that the leaues are not fnipt & diuided: thirdly, in that the Floures arc not 
expreft wrefted or twined:fourthly,the veins are not rightly expreft in the floure ; & laftly,the cods 
are omitted. Now the Leucoium mtlimcholicum hatha hairy ftalke diuided into fundry branches of 
the height formerly mentioned, and the leaues about the middle of the ftalke are fomewhat finu- 
ared ordeepely orvnequally cut ip ; thefhape and colour of the floureis the fame with that now 
deferibed , 
