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Cm t . IV. 
Speculum VenerU five Viola pent agon*. The Come Violet. 
> Ehave in our Corne fieldes in this Land,two forts of Corne Violets a greater and alcffe which thall 
V be (hewed to you in this Chapter. 
I. Speculum Veneris majut. The greater Corne Violet. 
The greater of thefe Violets hath fundry (lender wcakc trayling dalkes, lying on the ground, and 
rifing from the rootc, divided and fubdivided from every joynt into branches fo plentifully,that one 
plant growing in a good Garden ground,will be hardly covered with a pecke meafure, thicke fet without order 
with (mail and fomewhat long leaves,(lightly dented or rather waved on the edges, at every lcafe from the mid¬ 
dle upward, commeth forth aflower,of thebignefle of a two pence, fo (that five hundred flowers almof! will 
be feene open at once.a goodly fpeftacle) fet in a fine pointed greene huske.of a faire purplifh blew colour, made 
of one whole leafe, plaited into five round pointed ends, white at thebotrome, with a white pointell in the mid¬ 
dle,doling up every night,and opening in the day onc(y,thc feed isyellow,and contained in fmall long heads,the 
roote is fmall threddy.and annuall. 
a. Speculum Veneris minus, The leffer Come Violet. 
The leffer fott groweth more upright like unto the little Centory,with differ and fewer branches, more harfh 
or rough alfo in handling,the leaves are like unto the former but (omewhat leffe.at each Joynt almoft come forth 
two or three flowers, danding at the ends of long cods like unto Lyfimachia jjliquoja, of the fame fafUon and co¬ 
lour as the former,but fo fmall as the eye of a little bird,never rifing above the huske it danderh in, and not but in 
the fieate of the day to be feene, which then onely laycth it felfe open,the (cede is fmall and yellow as the former, 
the roote is fmall and annuall alfo. 
7 be Place and Time . 
The firft groweth in the Corne fields,betweene Grccncbithc and Hartford in Ken t, as alfo In the Come fields a-’ 
bout Tidy, a towne in the uttermod part of Hartfordjbire,towards 3edford,thet other about Hattfield, and in lun- 
dry other places in this land, being more frequent by much,and flower from Midlommer untill the end of Attgufb 
almodjthc feede ripening in the mcanc time. * 
Tbe Name], 
WehavenotunderdoodasyetbyanythatthelefTerforthathbeenc obferved by any Authourbeyondfeabuc 
onely the former,which is called Ontbryehis and Campanula arvenfitby Dodonaut and Lugdunenfis, and Onetrychib 
alter a Bclgarum by Label, Viola anonymos inodora by Gefncr, and Viola arvenfis,and Viola Bantagenia by Tabermon - 
lAvxqbut speculum Ifrrcru by Gerard, from the Hutches Vrotren fpiegcl^hidi is i Venus looking Glaffe in BngliJB, 
i. Speculum Ijtntik majus. 
The greater "Corne Violets 
2. Speculum Fexeris mmm. 
The leffer Corne Violft. 
