Theatrttm Botameum, 
1532 
Vaiieias. 
jiluftc- 
ctes. 
Cm AP.5. 
Tribi 15. 
bat bcciufe it ulually groweth in Come fields, and that fome have called it aViolct, I have thought it fitted to 
terme it a Corne Violet.which if any lift to alter they may at their plealure. 
The Vcrtttcs. 
We hive notunderftood that any hath made triall what vermes it is endued withall, and therefore I can fay 
no more thereof. 
Chai, V- 
‘PoljgaU. Milkewort. 
3F this Milkewort befides that there is a greater and a lefl'er kinde, and each of much variety in the co- 
I lour of the flowers, there are fome other plants fomewhat relemblingthem, which muft be entrea- 
ited of together. 
I. PoljgaUmajtr. The greater Milkewort. 
This g: eater kinde (hooteth from the roote five or fixe hard, (lender, and flexible (hikes, a foote 
hi"hor more, thicke fit with fomewhat long and narrow leaves like thole ot Diers weede : the (lowers grow 
acthe toppes in a long (pike thicke together, fomewhat like to thofe of Fumiterry, butlargerand ofafine de¬ 
layed reddifh purple colour and fliining withall, after which follow flat pouches, with two feedcsin them ufu- 
ally which are long blackifh and hairy: the roote is hard and wooddy, with divers fibres thereat, and abideth 
long. This hath beene found to vary, the colour of the flower, efpecially inftiadowy and mold placet, tobeci- 
ther blew or white,or mixed as the fmaller kinde is. 
2. Foiygala minor. The leflcT Milkewort. 
The leffer kinde groweth in all things like the former,but with low er and (tenderer fialkes, yet fomewhat hard 
or wooddy, not (o many rifing from a roote and with fewer and fmaller leaves on them : the flowers alfoarea- 
like but (mailer and vary as much or rather more in their colour, fome being of a blewifh purple, others purple 
and white, fome all white,other reddifh or ot a wan colour, or overwome red, Sec. There is alfo another (ort 
hereof whole lower leaves that (pread on the ground are many, and rounder then in any of the former, but 
thofe that grow on the Italkes are long like the reft, the flowers whereof are onely blew, without mixture or var 
riation. 
$. VtljgtiA MmfytUkca. Milkewort of Mnmpnier. 
This French Milkewort hath upright ftalkesa foote high, many riling from a (mall long white roote, with fun- 
dry longer and narrower leaves on them fet without order : the flowers grow one above another,in longer (pikes 
then in the other (mailer, and not fully like the other, but of a reddifh colour, the fcedetlapt followeth islmall 
contained in long cornered huskes. 
I. Vuiygale major. a. Toljgala minor. 
Thcgre.ucr MilkcWort. TheVcflcr Milk'cwoic. 
