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?( °enfees minute es the Germans Freyfcbemkr ant yfae r Duteb Penfeen. The firft is called by Matthiolw Viola arborefcens 2 
t jy Gefrier Violafrttticofa fay ClaJiM Viola Slafiorfay Lobel Viola Aiartiafurrettis csift lie tills fay Dodomus Viola ajfttr » 
tens tricolor, by Lugdunenfis Mater violarttm, and by others ZJiola clatior an darborea; the fecond is called by 
• Zlttfius in his Curt: poft ertores folio 59. Viola Montana pinnla: the third by him in his hiftory Viola montana laci - 
k tiatax the fourth and fift have not beene remembred by any before: the two laft are reckoned under the general* 
>t name of Viola tricolor with the addition of fylveftrn to (hew their diftinftions. 
; areufed to coole any heatc ordiftemperature of the body, eyther inwardly or outwardly, the inflammations in 
the eyes in the mother or in the fundament when they are fallen downe & are full ofpaine,Impoftumes alfo and 
hot fwellings, to drinkc the decodlion o,f the leaves or flowers made with water or wine, or to apply them pouU 
' tis wife to the grieved place, it likewife eafeth paines in the head, which are cauled through want of fkepc, or 
1 in any other place arifing of heate applyed in the like manner, or with oyle of Rofcs: a dram weight of the dry- 
ed leaves of the flowers of Violets, ( but the leaves more ftrongly) doth purge the body of chollcrick humors, 
t and affwageth the heate being taken in a draught of wine or any other drinkc : the powder of the purple leaves of 
1 the flowers oncly pickt and dryed,and drunke in powder with water is faid to helpe the Quinfie and the Falling 
1 fickneflc in children, efpecially in the beginning of the difeafe.tthe flowers of the white Violets ripeneth and 
! diffolveth fwellings: the feede being taken refifteth the force of the Scorpion: the herbe or flowers while they 
: are frefh, or the flowers when they are dry are effeduall in the Plurifie and all other difeafes of the Lungs, to 
lenifie the (barpenefle of hot rheumes and the hoarfenefle of the throate, the heate alfo and fharpenc fle of urine, 
and all paines of the backe or reynes and the bladder : it is good alfo for the Liver and the laundies, and in all 
hot Agues helping to coole the heate, and quench third : but the Syrupe of Violets is of mod ufeand of better 
efteft being taken in fome convenient liquor, and if a little of the juice or Syru e of Lemons bee put to it or a 
few drops of the oyl.eof Vitrioll, it is made thereby the more powerfull to coole the heate and to quench the 
third, andbelides the effe&giveth to the drinke a Claret wine colour and a fine tartreliifh pleafing to the tade. 
Violets taken or made up with hony doth more clcnfe then coole,and with Sugar contrariwife : thedryed flow¬ 
ers of Violets are accounted among the Cordiall flowers.and are ufed in cordialis, drinkes powders and other me¬ 
dicines, efpecially where cooling ccrdialis s as Rofes and Saunders areufed :the greene leaves arc alwayesufed 
with other herbes to make Cataplafmes and Poultifes for inflammations or .{'.veilings. and to eafe paines where- 
foever arifing of heate and for the piles alfo being fryed with Yolkes of Egges. and applyed thereto. Panfyes or 
Hearts eafe is like unto Violets in all the parts thereof, but (omewhat hotter and dryer, yet very temperate, and 
by the vifeous or glutinous j'uice therein doth fomewhat mollifie, yet lefle then s'! alio es: it is conducing in like 
manner as Violets to the hot difeafes of the langs and chefts,for agues, for corn-ulfions ; and the falling ficknefle in¬ 
children ; the places alfo troubled with the itch or fcabs being bathed with the decot-dion of them doth helpe 
much: it is Laid alfo to foder greene wounds,and to hclpc old fores to ufe rhe j’uyce cr the diflilkd water: Lngdn- 
I nenfis fetteth it downe that manyiacks full of the flowers and herbes are tran portD dom tJMarfe'tlles in France 
unto Alexandria• and other parts of Egypt where they ufe them boyled in water, v hkh onely by their religion 
they are enjoyned to drinke,not onely thereby to make it the more wholefonv’ to be drunke : but are perfwaded 
alfo chat ithelpcththc difeafes of the lungs and cheft, and the falling ficknefles. 
Chap. XVI. 
Fragaria, Strawberries. 
N my former Bookc I have (hewed you not onely mod of the edible Strawberries,but one wild (ore 
alfo that was fit to furnifh that VTorke., the figure of one which will decipher all the reft I give you. 
here; there are fome other forts to be entreated of fit to be eaten, which were omitted, and others 
that arc wilde without edible fruit, and therefore called by fome barren or without fruite. 
I. Fragaria minor hiffiidofolio. .Srpall Strawberries with hard leaves. 
This Strawberrie groweth like to other Strawberries both in leaves, flowers, and fruite,but lefle in all-of.them/ 
and to diftinguifhit the more certainely from the other forts, the leaves hereof are hard rough and hairie,grayifh 
as well on the upper as underfide : the berries when they are ripe are (mall but fufficient plea fane to eate, red on 
the one fide, andwhite on the other, as if they were equally divided. 
2. Fragaria Alpinafruttu comprejfo. Flat Strawberries. 
There is no difference in this kinde from cur ordinary Strawberrie. but in the fruit which is more flat thart 
round, and hath a drake or^-lift, every berrie of a tafte neare a Rafpis 2 this alfo ufually beareth fruit againe in 
the Autumne . 
3. Fragaria Helvetia nana. Dwarfe Strawberries. 
Divers may judge that this Strawberries fmallnefle commeth by the barrennefle of the (oyle wherein it grow- 
cth, but that js not fo : for it is well knowne to mod, that thofe hills ofthe Swtjfcrs have no barren ground upon 
them: this hath very fmali friparted leaves next the ground, clofer fet together upon fhort foote (hikes than any 
other, and thofe that are let on both fides ofthe long branch, not above feureinches long, which Heth creeping 
on the ground,grow lefle and without ftalke : the flower ftandeth at the end of the branch many times, but 
one at a place, which confifteth of five round leaves like a Strawberrie, but larger thenagreeth with the 
proportion of the plant, and is of a yellowifh colour; what fruite this beareth wee have not yetfeene or 
knowne certainely.Thisj commeth neare unto the defeription of the FragdrU affinis fericea plant a otBaubinui, 
his brother formerly fo calling it,which as he faith is the Leucas Diofcoridis Adverfariorum i and giveth thereunto 
a fmali head containing fmali feede therein : but this was brought us from the Alpss by one Flefeber a Silejiax ,. 
a young Doftor in Phyfieke bat very skilfull in (imples, who periled in Virginia by tafting fome 
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