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XLI.1.Hesperis, siue Viola Matronalis.Dames Violets, or Queenes Gilloflowers.The ordinary Dames Violets, or Queene Gilloflowers, hath his leaues broader, greener, and sharper pointed, then the Stock gilloflowers, and a little endented about the edges: the stalkes grow two foot high, bearing many greene leaues vpon them, smaller then those at the bottome, and branched at the toppe, bearing many flowers, in fashion much like the flowers of stocke gilloflowers, consisting of foure leaues in like manner, but not so large, of a faint purplish colour in some, and in others white, and of a pretty sweet sent, especially towards night, but in the day time little or none at all: after the flowers are past, there doe come small long and round pods, wherein is contained, in two rowes, small and long blacke seede: the roote is wholly composed of stringes or fibres, which abide many yeares, and springeth fresh stalks euery yeare, the leaues abiding all the Winter.2.Hesperis Pannonica.Dames Violets of Hungary.The leaues of this Violet are very like the former, but smoother and thicker, and not at all indented, or cut in on the edges: the flowers are like the former, but of a sullen pale colour, turning themselues, and seldome lying plaine open, hauing many purple veines, and streakes running through the leaues of the flowers, of little or no sent in the day time, but of a very sweete sent in the euening and morning; the seedes are alike also, but a little browner.Page 263: Stoke-Gilloflowers, Dames Violets, etc.1Leucoium Melancholicum.Sullen Stocke-Gilloflowers.2Leucoium sativum flore pleno.Double Stocke-Gilloflowers.3Leucoium sativum flore pleno vario.Party coloured Stocke-Gilloflowers.4Leucoium marinum Syriacum.Leuant Stocke-Gilloflowers.5Hesperis vulgaris.Dames Violets or Winter Gilloflowers.6Lysimachia lutea siliquosa Virginiana.The tree Primrose of Virginia.7Viola lunaris siue Bolbonach.The white Sattin flower.3.Lysimachia lutea siliquosa Virginiana.The tree Primrose of Virginia.Vnto what tribe or kindred I might referre this plant, I haue stood long in suspence, in regard I make no mention of any otherLysimachiain this work: lest therefore it should lose all place, let me ranke it here next vnto the Dames Violets, although I confesse it hath little affinity with them. The first yeare of the sowing the seede it abideth without any stalke or flowers lying vpon the ground, with diuers long and narrow pale greene leaues, spread oftentimes round almost like a Rose, the largest leaues being outermost, and very small in the middle: about May the next yeare the stalke riseth, which will be in Summer of the height of a man, and of a strong bigge size almost to a mans thumbe, round from the bottome to the middle, where it groweth crested vp to the toppe, into as many parts as there are branches of flowers, euery one hauing a small leafe at the foote thereof: the flowers stand in order one aboue another, round about the tops of the stalks, euery one vpon a short foot-stalke, consisting of foure pale yellow leaues, smelling somewhat like vnto a Primrose, as the colour is also (which hath caused the name) and standing in a greene huske, which parteth it selfe at the toppe into foure parts or leaues, and turne themselues downewards, lying close to the stalke: the flower hath some chiues in the middle, which being past, there come in their places long and cornered pods, sharpe pointed at the vpper end, and round belowe, opening at the toppe when it is ripe into fiue parts, wherein is contained small brownish seed: the roote is somewhat great at the head, and wooddy, and branched forth diuersly, which perisheth after it hath borne seede.The Place.The two first grow for the most part on Hils and in Woods, but with vs in Gardens onely.The last, as may be well vnderstood by the title, came out of Virginia.The Time.They flower in May, Iune, and Iuly.The Names.The name ofHesperisis imposed by most Herbarists vpon the two first plants, although it is not certainly knowne to be the same thatTheophrastus doth make mention of, in his sixth Booke and twenty fiue Chapterde causis plantarum: but because this hath the like effects to smell best in the euening, it is (as I said) imposed vpon it. It is also calledViola Marina Matronalis,Hyemalis,DamascenaandMuschatella: In English, Dames Violets, Queens Gilloflowers, and Winter Gilloflowers.The last hath his Latine name in the title as is best agreeing with it, and for the English, although it be too foolish I confesse, yet it may passe for this time till a fitter be giuen, vnlesse you please to follow the Latine, and call it Virginia Loose-strife.The Vertues.I neuer knew any among vs to vse these kindes of Violets in Physicke, although by reason of the sharpe biting taste, Dodonæus accounteth the ordinary sort to be a kinde of Rocket, and saith it prouoketh sweating, and vrine: and others affirme it to cut, digest, and cleanse tough flegme. The Virginian hath not beene vsed by any that I know, either inwardly or outwardly.
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XLI.1.Hesperis, siue Viola Matronalis.Dames Violets, or Queenes Gilloflowers.The ordinary Dames Violets, or Queene Gilloflowers, hath his leaues broader, greener, and sharper pointed, then the Stock gilloflowers, and a little endented about the edges: the stalkes grow two foot high, bearing many greene leaues vpon them, smaller then those at the bottome, and branched at the toppe, bearing many flowers, in fashion much like the flowers of stocke gilloflowers, consisting of foure leaues in like manner, but not so large, of a faint purplish colour in some, and in others white, and of a pretty sweet sent, especially towards night, but in the day time little or none at all: after the flowers are past, there doe come small long and round pods, wherein is contained, in two rowes, small and long blacke seede: the roote is wholly composed of stringes or fibres, which abide many yeares, and springeth fresh stalks euery yeare, the leaues abiding all the Winter.2.Hesperis Pannonica.Dames Violets of Hungary.The leaues of this Violet are very like the former, but smoother and thicker, and not at all indented, or cut in on the edges: the flowers are like the former, but of a sullen pale colour, turning themselues, and seldome lying plaine open, hauing many purple veines, and streakes running through the leaues of the flowers, of little or no sent in the day time, but of a very sweete sent in the euening and morning; the seedes are alike also, but a little browner.Page 263: Stoke-Gilloflowers, Dames Violets, etc.1Leucoium Melancholicum.Sullen Stocke-Gilloflowers.2Leucoium sativum flore pleno.Double Stocke-Gilloflowers.3Leucoium sativum flore pleno vario.Party coloured Stocke-Gilloflowers.4Leucoium marinum Syriacum.Leuant Stocke-Gilloflowers.5Hesperis vulgaris.Dames Violets or Winter Gilloflowers.6Lysimachia lutea siliquosa Virginiana.The tree Primrose of Virginia.7Viola lunaris siue Bolbonach.The white Sattin flower.3.Lysimachia lutea siliquosa Virginiana.The tree Primrose of Virginia.Vnto what tribe or kindred I might referre this plant, I haue stood long in suspence, in regard I make no mention of any otherLysimachiain this work: lest therefore it should lose all place, let me ranke it here next vnto the Dames Violets, although I confesse it hath little affinity with them. The first yeare of the sowing the seede it abideth without any stalke or flowers lying vpon the ground, with diuers long and narrow pale greene leaues, spread oftentimes round almost like a Rose, the largest leaues being outermost, and very small in the middle: about May the next yeare the stalke riseth, which will be in Summer of the height of a man, and of a strong bigge size almost to a mans thumbe, round from the bottome to the middle, where it groweth crested vp to the toppe, into as many parts as there are branches of flowers, euery one hauing a small leafe at the foote thereof: the flowers stand in order one aboue another, round about the tops of the stalks, euery one vpon a short foot-stalke, consisting of foure pale yellow leaues, smelling somewhat like vnto a Primrose, as the colour is also (which hath caused the name) and standing in a greene huske, which parteth it selfe at the toppe into foure parts or leaues, and turne themselues downewards, lying close to the stalke: the flower hath some chiues in the middle, which being past, there come in their places long and cornered pods, sharpe pointed at the vpper end, and round belowe, opening at the toppe when it is ripe into fiue parts, wherein is contained small brownish seed: the roote is somewhat great at the head, and wooddy, and branched forth diuersly, which perisheth after it hath borne seede.The Place.The two first grow for the most part on Hils and in Woods, but with vs in Gardens onely.The last, as may be well vnderstood by the title, came out of Virginia.The Time.They flower in May, Iune, and Iuly.The Names.The name ofHesperisis imposed by most Herbarists vpon the two first plants, although it is not certainly knowne to be the same thatTheophrastus doth make mention of, in his sixth Booke and twenty fiue Chapterde causis plantarum: but because this hath the like effects to smell best in the euening, it is (as I said) imposed vpon it. It is also calledViola Marina Matronalis,Hyemalis,DamascenaandMuschatella: In English, Dames Violets, Queens Gilloflowers, and Winter Gilloflowers.The last hath his Latine name in the title as is best agreeing with it, and for the English, although it be too foolish I confesse, yet it may passe for this time till a fitter be giuen, vnlesse you please to follow the Latine, and call it Virginia Loose-strife.The Vertues.I neuer knew any among vs to vse these kindes of Violets in Physicke, although by reason of the sharpe biting taste, Dodonæus accounteth the ordinary sort to be a kinde of Rocket, and saith it prouoketh sweating, and vrine: and others affirme it to cut, digest, and cleanse tough flegme. The Virginian hath not beene vsed by any that I know, either inwardly or outwardly.
The ordinary Dames Violets, or Queene Gilloflowers, hath his leaues broader, greener, and sharper pointed, then the Stock gilloflowers, and a little endented about the edges: the stalkes grow two foot high, bearing many greene leaues vpon them, smaller then those at the bottome, and branched at the toppe, bearing many flowers, in fashion much like the flowers of stocke gilloflowers, consisting of foure leaues in like manner, but not so large, of a faint purplish colour in some, and in others white, and of a pretty sweet sent, especially towards night, but in the day time little or none at all: after the flowers are past, there doe come small long and round pods, wherein is contained, in two rowes, small and long blacke seede: the roote is wholly composed of stringes or fibres, which abide many yeares, and springeth fresh stalks euery yeare, the leaues abiding all the Winter.
The leaues of this Violet are very like the former, but smoother and thicker, and not at all indented, or cut in on the edges: the flowers are like the former, but of a sullen pale colour, turning themselues, and seldome lying plaine open, hauing many purple veines, and streakes running through the leaues of the flowers, of little or no sent in the day time, but of a very sweete sent in the euening and morning; the seedes are alike also, but a little browner.
Page 263: Stoke-Gilloflowers, Dames Violets, etc.1Leucoium Melancholicum.Sullen Stocke-Gilloflowers.2Leucoium sativum flore pleno.Double Stocke-Gilloflowers.3Leucoium sativum flore pleno vario.Party coloured Stocke-Gilloflowers.4Leucoium marinum Syriacum.Leuant Stocke-Gilloflowers.5Hesperis vulgaris.Dames Violets or Winter Gilloflowers.6Lysimachia lutea siliquosa Virginiana.The tree Primrose of Virginia.7Viola lunaris siue Bolbonach.The white Sattin flower.
Vnto what tribe or kindred I might referre this plant, I haue stood long in suspence, in regard I make no mention of any otherLysimachiain this work: lest therefore it should lose all place, let me ranke it here next vnto the Dames Violets, although I confesse it hath little affinity with them. The first yeare of the sowing the seede it abideth without any stalke or flowers lying vpon the ground, with diuers long and narrow pale greene leaues, spread oftentimes round almost like a Rose, the largest leaues being outermost, and very small in the middle: about May the next yeare the stalke riseth, which will be in Summer of the height of a man, and of a strong bigge size almost to a mans thumbe, round from the bottome to the middle, where it groweth crested vp to the toppe, into as many parts as there are branches of flowers, euery one hauing a small leafe at the foote thereof: the flowers stand in order one aboue another, round about the tops of the stalks, euery one vpon a short foot-stalke, consisting of foure pale yellow leaues, smelling somewhat like vnto a Primrose, as the colour is also (which hath caused the name) and standing in a greene huske, which parteth it selfe at the toppe into foure parts or leaues, and turne themselues downewards, lying close to the stalke: the flower hath some chiues in the middle, which being past, there come in their places long and cornered pods, sharpe pointed at the vpper end, and round belowe, opening at the toppe when it is ripe into fiue parts, wherein is contained small brownish seed: the roote is somewhat great at the head, and wooddy, and branched forth diuersly, which perisheth after it hath borne seede.
The Place.The two first grow for the most part on Hils and in Woods, but with vs in Gardens onely.The last, as may be well vnderstood by the title, came out of Virginia.
The two first grow for the most part on Hils and in Woods, but with vs in Gardens onely.
The last, as may be well vnderstood by the title, came out of Virginia.
The Time.They flower in May, Iune, and Iuly.
They flower in May, Iune, and Iuly.
The Names.The name ofHesperisis imposed by most Herbarists vpon the two first plants, although it is not certainly knowne to be the same thatTheophrastus doth make mention of, in his sixth Booke and twenty fiue Chapterde causis plantarum: but because this hath the like effects to smell best in the euening, it is (as I said) imposed vpon it. It is also calledViola Marina Matronalis,Hyemalis,DamascenaandMuschatella: In English, Dames Violets, Queens Gilloflowers, and Winter Gilloflowers.The last hath his Latine name in the title as is best agreeing with it, and for the English, although it be too foolish I confesse, yet it may passe for this time till a fitter be giuen, vnlesse you please to follow the Latine, and call it Virginia Loose-strife.
The name ofHesperisis imposed by most Herbarists vpon the two first plants, although it is not certainly knowne to be the same thatTheophrastus doth make mention of, in his sixth Booke and twenty fiue Chapterde causis plantarum: but because this hath the like effects to smell best in the euening, it is (as I said) imposed vpon it. It is also calledViola Marina Matronalis,Hyemalis,DamascenaandMuschatella: In English, Dames Violets, Queens Gilloflowers, and Winter Gilloflowers.
The last hath his Latine name in the title as is best agreeing with it, and for the English, although it be too foolish I confesse, yet it may passe for this time till a fitter be giuen, vnlesse you please to follow the Latine, and call it Virginia Loose-strife.
The Vertues.I neuer knew any among vs to vse these kindes of Violets in Physicke, although by reason of the sharpe biting taste, Dodonæus accounteth the ordinary sort to be a kinde of Rocket, and saith it prouoketh sweating, and vrine: and others affirme it to cut, digest, and cleanse tough flegme. The Virginian hath not beene vsed by any that I know, either inwardly or outwardly.
I neuer knew any among vs to vse these kindes of Violets in Physicke, although by reason of the sharpe biting taste, Dodonæus accounteth the ordinary sort to be a kinde of Rocket, and saith it prouoketh sweating, and vrine: and others affirme it to cut, digest, and cleanse tough flegme. The Virginian hath not beene vsed by any that I know, either inwardly or outwardly.