Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
feed eommeth forth contained in a flat thin cod, with a fliarp point or prick at one end, in fafhion 
of the Moone, and fomewhatblackilh.This cod is compofed of three Himes or skins, whereof the 
two outmoft are of an ouerworne afli colour,and the innermoft,or that in the middle, whereon the 
feed doth hang or cleaue,is thin and cleere fhining,likea Hired of white Sattinnevylyci.it from the 
peece.The whole plant dieth the fame yeare that it hath borne feed,& imift be fownc yearely.The 
root is compadtofmany tuberous parts like key clogs, or like the great Afphodill. 
2 The fecond kind of Bolhonac or white Sattin hath many great and broad leaues, almoftlike 
thofeof the great burteDocke:amongvyhich rilethvpavery tall Hem of the height of foure cu- 
bits, ftiffe, and ofa whitiih greene colour, fet with the like leaues,but fmalfer.The floures grow vp- 
on the flender branches, of a purple colour, compaft of foure fmall leaues like thofe of the ftocke 
Gillofloure- after which come thin long cods ofthe fame fubftance and colour of the former. The 
root is thicke, whereunto are fattened an infinite number oflong threddie ftringsivvhich roote di- 
eth not euery yeare as the other doth, but multiplieth it felfeasvvellby falling of thefeede,as by 
new fhoots ofthe root. 
i yioULunaru five Bolbonac. 
White Sattin. 
2 ViUn Lunaris longwiius 
Long codded white Sattin, 
s(j 7 he Place. 
Thefe plants are fet and fowne in gardens; notwithftanding the firft hath been found wilde in 
the woods about Pinner, and Harrow on the hill,twelue miles from Londomand in EffexJ^kewife 
about Horn-church. 
The fecond groweth about Watford, fifteene miles from London. Sp 
The Time. 
They floure in Apriil the next yeare after they be fowne. 
«jy The Names. 
They are commonly called BoWonacby a barbarous nameiwe had rather call it with Tsedonaus & 
Clufius.VioUUtifoliafinA Violalunar^or as itpleafeth moft Herbarifts, Viohferegrma •• the Bra- 
banders name it^cntlttltfe blOCItUtt, of the fattiionof the coddes, like after aloft to a groat or 
refterne,and l^aefcl) blGCnUn,becaufe it alwaies floureth neere about the Fean °* Iter : moll: 
of the later Herbarifts doe call it Lunar i a : Others, Ltmarid Gr&ca.^ either or the fafhion or the 
feed, or of the filuer brightnefle that it hath, or of the middle skinne ofthe cods, vy hen the two out- 
termoft ski lines orhuskesand feedes likcwifearefalne away. We call thisherbe in Englifli Penny 
floure, or Money floure, Siluer Plate, Pricke-fongwoort • in Norfolke, Sattin, and White 
Sattin- 
