'IB. 2. 
Of the Hiflory of Plants. 
£ 4 Liucoium melancholic um. 
The Melancholly floure. 
4 6 ' 
defcribed, and the feed veffels the fame, as 
far as I remember: forlmuft confelfe, I 
did not in writing take any particular note 
of them though I haue diners times feene 
them , neither did I euer compare them 
with this defeription of Clufius ■ onely I 
tooke fome yeares agone an exad figure 
of a branch with the vpper leaues and 
floures, whereof one is expreft as they vfu- 
ally grow twining backe,and the reft faire 
open, the better to fet forth the veines that 
are fpred oner it. There are alfo expreft a 
cod or feedeve(Tell,andoneof the leaues 
that grow about the middle of the ftalke ; 
all which are agreeable to Clufius deferip- 
tion in mine opinion ; wherefore I onely 
giueyou the figure that I then drew, with 
he title that I had it by. t 
The Place. 
They are {own in gardens for the beau- 
ty of their floures. 
The Time. 
They efpecially floure in Maie and 
Iune, the lecond yeare after they are 
fowne. 
r ^T he Names, 
Dames Violet is called in Latine Viola matrondis, and Viola Hyemalis,ot Winter Violets, and 
Viola Damafcena : It is thought to be the HejJ/eris of Pliny Jib. 2 1 . cap. 7. Co called, for that it fmels 
more,& more pleafantly in the euening or night,than at any other time.They are called in French 
V iolettes des Dames, & de domas,md Girofjlees des dames pt Matrones Violettes . in Englifh, Damaske 
.Violets, winter Gillofloures, Rogues Gillofloures, and clofe Sciences. 
% The Temperature. 
The leaues of Dames V iolets are in tafte fharpeand hot, very like in tafte and facultie to True a 
or Rocket, and feemeth to be a kinde thereof. 
\ 
TheV emits , 
The diftilled water of the floures hereof is counted to be amoft effeduall thing Oo procure ^ 
fweat. 
C h a p. 113. Of White Sattin floure. 
o The Defeription. 
1 TSolbonacoi the Sattin floure hath hard and round ftalkes,diuidingthemfelues into' man y 
Ifother fmall branches.befet with leaues like Dames Violets, or Queenes Gillofloures, 
fomewhat broad, andfniptabouttheedges, andin fafhion almoft like Sauce alone, or 
lacke by the hedge,but that they are longer and (harper pointed. The ftalkesare charged or laden 
with many floures like the common ftorke Gillofloure, ofa purple cc!our,which being falne,the 
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