624 Chap. 72. Theatrum Botanicum. Tribe v 
ends, with long foote (hikes under them : the toppes of the ftalkes arc parted into (mail branches, each whereof 
fultaine fundryimall flowers, fomewhar long, made of foure leaves a peece, of a faire blue colour after whi h : 
come fmall blackifhfeede in long cods like the other.the roote is (mail and fender perifliing tea' elv after ferde I 
time, ytt abideth a winter Iron, the feed., but iowen in the fpring groweth quickly to flowring and fo C onn'~, 
rueth in flower molt part of the Summer. You have a branch hereof exprefled in the table with Lencoium /«", 
teum utricHlato Jemine in the next Chapter. * 
10. Leucoium faxAtile Thymifolio. Small Rocke Stocke Gilloflower. 
TheRocke Stocke Gilloflower for the beauty o( the flowers is not unfitly placed heie among this Tribe which 
elfe for other refpeffs might more truly in my judgement be put in that CUffis of the 7 hbfbut, asthedeferimf 
on (hcweth)is a (mail low plant.having hairy fmall leaves like unto thofe of time; fee very th'cke on bothfidp"* 
of the weake ftalkes, which doe lye in fuch a round ccmpafle that it feemeth like a fmall round bufli of an cvill 
or (linking fent,but fharpe biting tafte,comming nearer to the degree of a Tklafpi then Leucoium, as C, lumna (1 i h 
hmifclfe, who fetteth it forth : it beareth fmall flowers plentifully on the toppes of the ftalkes and branches f i 
a blevvifh purple colour, the middle part being of a whiciflr yellow with divers (mall threds Handing in the midft 1 
i ne r/ace. 
The firft was brought out of the Ifle of Rce by Rochel by M r . loin Tradefcant when the Duke of Buckingham 
was fent with fupplies for Mounfieur Subife ; the fecondgrowes by the Sea fide, as the third and fourth about the 
Sea coalts m Narbone not farre from ^<w/>e//Vr,andonthe coall of PortugalUn&Spaine beyond the Straights • 
thefift nearetheSeatt 7 >mzc 7 #*; the three firft Candy kinds Clufm faith hee received from Cafabon having 
brought them out of Candy : the ninth ‘Bauhinw faith was brought out of Signor Contareni of Venice his Garden 
but Alpinv.i faith (rom fondy, ce nth Column a found on the hills Valvenfes in ^ap/es . ’ 
The Time. 
They doe all flower in the Summer moneths of Iuue and July for a great while, and the feede rineneth nor 
until! Atigujt . f 11111<JC 
The Names . 
_ The Greeke word is given to all thefe wilde plants as well as to the other of the Garden entrearedof 
in my former booke, whether they be thofe we call Stocke Gilloflowers or Walflowers: for fo Diolclridcs 
Piny and the reft that fallow him, have diftinguiflred the Leucoium (as the Latines alLaft them ) /^thte co 
lours,white,purple and yellow,for of a blew one as feme copies of Tio/cor.de, have it there is fame doubt arm™ 
many writers, in that P liv h Oribafnu and Serapio, allfollowing,he Tcxtof Viojcoridcs, and as 
the 1 ext of Diofcondes alio in the Sclavonics Longobardian Chambers hath no mention at all of a blew one hue 
this word htuwiov Leucoium that is, Viola alba, here is not oppoled unto mh*fw MeUmum ( which figniFerh 
y,oU u.ora, and are our March Violets, white or purple as the compofure ofrhe Greeke words import) "n,ha 
1 °: P ro P erl y 1S v "‘*> but is impofed upon thefe plants, as the proper names to them ; for fa ‘TiofcoSides divideth 
them into (overall places and Chapters,from the whitneifeof the leaves rather then ofrhe flower as I thin ko and 
yet the name Leucomm is fovanoufly transferred to other plants in Diofcmde, text, that the Powers nf nl.lf 
herbes much differing one from another, are referred by Lfcorides ,o the flow™dW ZdloZZ 
faith, that the name ol Violets in his rime w ere given to very many flowers, that were put into garlands for the" 
beauties fake and fwcete favour of the flower, cuftome preva ms above reafnn vra mam; nrber^; , • u 
like manner, have followed them and called them Violets, as Viola Lfuma/ceuZorZdZtrouu/^ wbidTarc cur 
Dames Violets or Winter Gilloflowers,& thofe in he firft hath thc na[re in the 
reft for it in my judgement. The fecond Arfe/calleth Leucoium marmum *[,„«„ Utifol.um. Camcrarim Leu. 
C ZrZ l Tt“i-™ i t lh it for Tripoli ,and Tuuhium Leucoium murmum Utifolium 
anadoubteth whether it be not the Leucoium marittmum minus of Lnvdunenfis ujliirh o C ^ i,;.u r orri _„ J i * 
be Hefieru. The third and fourth ar cClufiu, his LeucoiumZi„, m tiltlllTZ I “ 
ZZ C Z the ‘ n >“'-r lIet , h V m ~ ’f f T m and the fift Al^ e ondy mention^' 
Z namC,n Z m 'l ! nd u gl l th C4, / !W callcth ,Leucoi„ m marmum Creucum primZfi. 
TutnV Vi ' ™ m " th :hlnk .eth robe that Leucoium Creticum p.lcherimumfoni LeJoinm cllu- 
Uum Deofcorides^t Tom mentioneth ,n his defer,pt,on of Mount Bridw, and calletb it himfelfe Leucoium Cue. 
ncummimmum folufubrotmio and after a fort defenbeth it in his Prodrome ,and peradventure may be his fin 
fort there defer,bed likewifa, for I finde little difference the one from the other: hut Alpiuue libro IplamlcZ 
defenbeth it more perfectly and exacftly, and callcth it Leucoium earulcum marmum. The left C»L« hath 
fet forthby thename of LithoreoLeucnummmmumfupwum^nd Tauhium Leucoiumfaxatile thymifoliohirfutum 
caruleopurpureum. but might as I fayd be rather accounted a Thlajpi. ] 1 
The Vertues. 
Thefe wilde or Sea Stocke Gilloflowers are of the fame qualitie with diofenfthe uarAr-r, ,u . 
not of fo fweete a lent, and are almoft efteemed as effeftuall as the ordinarv vllhJ leucoium Zr w Vn^ "* 
for fo is Galen, /ndnement of the m all,faying they are of a clenfin*quali^andnfXnnJ 
Gilloflowers (for under them I comprehend the vertues of thefe alfo as T ^ pU p V V| 31 j rP ' t0C ^ 
rather then the frefh and greene boyled in wine and drunke doth reftifie the inriT^ fr' C Zh T ■ ^ ed ^°'Y els ’ 
Provoked, womens courfes.as alio helpeth the hatdnefl'e °( he v L ‘ ve J “ d F. e “ cs > 
afterbirth,and the dead child alfo,yea and the living alfo faith cZ if thet Zu l l T Z rCC0 " d,n L e “ C 
made for them to (it in doth the (fme,-& the feed ofth ) e dmnk worked in h ’lf e W ™ V‘ T f IC ^ J r bath 
be drunke twife a day, ir will helpe to lire ngthen and reftore ™ 
Missis 
clenfe them from the miffs and clouds, that feeme to hinder the fight ’ and farhfon PP 1' ^ T' d ° th 
flowers. 
