Cm a p. 15. Tbeatrum ‘Botatiicum. 7 r 1 b r 6, 
Viola tricolor major & -vulgaris. 
Greater and leficr Panfyes or Hearts eafe. 
7. Viola fitveftru Tricolor. 
WiM« Panfyes or Hearts eafe. 
all of them for the moll part being fmaller then thofeof the Gardened of as fmalla fent, that is rone at all, bat 
in the flowers, the colours are divers, yet fcarfe a flower among many hath three colours in them for they are 
chicfcly white and pale blew> more or lefle marked and fpotted,and fometimes fome yellow in the bottome. 
The Place. 
The firft as is before fayd was found upon Mount Baldw as alfo upon the Vegancan hills in Narbone: the fecond 
was found in S paine by GttjUame Boel as excellent an Herbarift as any in his time, who {hewed it both to Clufius 
as he faith himielfe among many other rare plants hee brought from thence : the third C lupus laith hec had from 
Dozier Mera who gathered the plant in his returne from Italy, and {hewed it dry to C Input .-the fourth came 
itovoVirgima^nd the fift from iTcrkeftiereas is layd in the description, thetwolafl grow wilde in our ownc 
Land plenfully enough, the wild Violets in woods and Orchards and under bufhes upon heaths and ^uch like 
fhady places,the wilde Panfies in the Come fields and in fuch as lye Ley,and in the borders of others fields, 
The Time, 
All thefe flower after the Garden Violets,and as the Panfyes untill the end of/ ulj. 
The Names. 
The Garden Violet is called in Greeke*^ "Viola purpurea by Dio fcorid.es and Vov fV.has "Viola nigra and 
fu^aviov Aielanium by Tbeophraflui belceved by the ancient Greekes (for fo fetdowne in their writings) tobefo 
called of -Zo,who was transformed into a Cow by Iupiter , the earth being caufied to bring forth that herbe for 
cattle to feede on : or as Hermolatts reporteth Nicander to fay in his Geoponicks , that the Violet was called Jon 
ofeertaine Nimphcs of Iouia } who firft gave of thofe flowers to Jupiter as a prefent: the Latines doe call it, Viola 
CMartia, and the herbe Violaria y Viola quap vitula by putting the Letter t in imitation of the Greekes, which 
made S ervius to thinke that "Viola was Vaccintum of the Latines,citing "Virgill in his fecond Eclogue rflba ligupra 
cadunt Vaccinia nigra leguntttr. But Virgill in his tenth Eclogue fheweth he did not meane them for hee nameth 
them both as different herbes in thefe words Et nigra VioUfunt & Vaccinia nigra : blit I have (hewed what is the 
true Vaccinium of Virgill in my formerbooke in folio 157. and 128. Vitruvius alfo in his feventh booke of Ar¬ 
chitecture diftinguifheth Viola from Vaccinium ,by (hewing the different colours they gave in dying of cloth &c, 
whereof came Ianthinus colour, A Violet or purple colour, fome others thinke that iov came anl tk hvas, quaff ire , 
ant provenire } aut primum prorumpere : veris enim previa ep Viola. The Arabians call it S e»efpgi y Senep-agi or Bene- 
ppgit the Italians Viola porporea and Pavonazzo and Viola mamuolo : the Spaniards Violetta ; the French Violate 
deCMars : the Germanes MertzcnViolen , the DntchVioletten , and we in Englipj Violets ,Marcb Violets,and pur¬ 
ple Violets: The Hearts cafe is called by us Panfyes from the French word Penfees , as alfo love in idienefle, cull 
me to you, and three faces in a hood, and in Latine Viola tricolor , and Viola flammea, for fo, that is flamrm, 
Gaza tranflateth fome copies have) of Theophrapw lib. 6 .c 6 . fome alfo call it Viola multi¬ 
color Herb a Trinitatity Flos Trinit at is and Viola Trinitatii of the three colours herein :C JMatthiolw alfo faith it 
W?? called but there is another called nigra^ whereof I have largely entreated before, and fome call it 
