Chap. XXIII.Dens Caninus.Dogs tooth Violet.Vnto the kindes of Orchides, may fitly be ioyned another plant, which by many is reckoned to be aSatyrium, both from the forme of roote and leafe, and from the efficacy or vertue correspondent thereunto. And although it cannot be theSatyrium Erythroniumof Dioscorides, as some would entitle it, for that as I haue shewed before, hisSatyrium tryphillumis the Tulipa without all doubt; yet because it differeth very notably, and carrieth more beauty and respect in his flower then they, I shall entreate thereof in a Chapter by it selfe, and set it next vnto them.Dens Caninus flore albo.Dogs tooth Violet with a white flower.The white Dogs tooth hath for his roote a white bulbe, long and small, yet vsually greater then either of the other that follow, bigger belowe then aboue, with a small peece adioyning to the bottome of it, from whence rise vp in the beginning of the Spring, after the Winter frosts are past, two leaues for the most part (when it will flower, or else but one, and neuer three together that euer I saw) closed together when they first come vp out of the ground, which inclose the flower betweene them: the leaues when they are opened do lay themselues flat on the ground, or not much aboue it, one opposite vnto the other, with the stalke and the flower on it standing betweene them, which leaues are of a whitish greene colour, long and narrow, yet broader in themiddle then at both ends, growing lesse by degrees each way, spotted and striped all ouer the leaues with white lines and spots: the stalke riseth vp halfe a foote high or more, bearing at the toppe one flower and no more, hanging downe the head, larger then any of the other of this kinde that follow, made or consisting of six white long and narrow leaues, turning themselues vp againe, after it hath felt the comfort of the Sunne, that they doe almost touch the stalke againe, very like vnto the flowers ofCyclamenor Sowebread: it hath in the middle of the flower six white chiues, tipt with darke purple pendents, and a white three forked stile in the middle of them: the flower hath no sent at all, but commendable onely for the beauty and forme thereof: after the flower is past, commeth in the place a round head seeming three square, containing therein small and yellowish seede.Dens Caninus flore purpurascente.Dogs tooth with a pale purple flower.This other Dogs tooth is like vnto the former, but lesser in all parts, the leafe whereof is not so long, but broad and short, spotted with darker lines and spots: the flower is like the other, but smaller, and of a delayed purple colour, very pale sometimes, and sometimes a little deeper, turning it selfe as the other, with a circle round about the vmbone or middle, the chiues hereof are not white, but declining to purple: the roote is white, and like vnto the former, but lesser, as is said before.Dens Caninus flore rubro.Dogs tooth with a red flower.This is in all things like vnto the last, both for forme and bignesse of flower and leafe: the chiefe difference consisteth in this, that the leaues hereof are of a yellowish mealy greene colour, spotted and streaked with redder spots and stripes, and the flower of a deeper reddish purple colour, and the chiues also more purplish then the last, in all other things it is alike.The Place.The sortsDens Caninusdoe growe in diuers places; some in Italy on the Euganean Hils, others on the Apenine, and some about Gratz, the chiefe Citie of Stiria, and also about Bayonne, and in other places.The Time.They flower in March most vsually, and many times in Aprill, according to the seasonablenesse of the yeare.The Names.Clusius did call it firstDentali, and Lobel, and from him some othersSatyrium, andErythronium, but I haue said enough hereof in the beginning ofthe Chapter. It is most commonly calledDens Caninus, and we in English, either Dogs tooth, or Dogs tooth Violet. Gesner called itHermodactylus, and MatthiolusPseudohermodactylus.The Vertues.The roote hereof is held to bee of more efficacy for venerous effects, then any of the Orchides and Satyrions.They of Stiria vse the rootes for the falling sicknesse.Wee haue had from Virginia a roote sent vnto vs, that wee might well iudge, by the forme and colour thereof being dry, to be either the roote of this, or of an Orchis, which the naturall people hold not onely to be singular to procure lust, but hold it as a secret, loth to reueale it.
Chap. XXIII.Dens Caninus.Dogs tooth Violet.Vnto the kindes of Orchides, may fitly be ioyned another plant, which by many is reckoned to be aSatyrium, both from the forme of roote and leafe, and from the efficacy or vertue correspondent thereunto. And although it cannot be theSatyrium Erythroniumof Dioscorides, as some would entitle it, for that as I haue shewed before, hisSatyrium tryphillumis the Tulipa without all doubt; yet because it differeth very notably, and carrieth more beauty and respect in his flower then they, I shall entreate thereof in a Chapter by it selfe, and set it next vnto them.Dens Caninus flore albo.Dogs tooth Violet with a white flower.The white Dogs tooth hath for his roote a white bulbe, long and small, yet vsually greater then either of the other that follow, bigger belowe then aboue, with a small peece adioyning to the bottome of it, from whence rise vp in the beginning of the Spring, after the Winter frosts are past, two leaues for the most part (when it will flower, or else but one, and neuer three together that euer I saw) closed together when they first come vp out of the ground, which inclose the flower betweene them: the leaues when they are opened do lay themselues flat on the ground, or not much aboue it, one opposite vnto the other, with the stalke and the flower on it standing betweene them, which leaues are of a whitish greene colour, long and narrow, yet broader in themiddle then at both ends, growing lesse by degrees each way, spotted and striped all ouer the leaues with white lines and spots: the stalke riseth vp halfe a foote high or more, bearing at the toppe one flower and no more, hanging downe the head, larger then any of the other of this kinde that follow, made or consisting of six white long and narrow leaues, turning themselues vp againe, after it hath felt the comfort of the Sunne, that they doe almost touch the stalke againe, very like vnto the flowers ofCyclamenor Sowebread: it hath in the middle of the flower six white chiues, tipt with darke purple pendents, and a white three forked stile in the middle of them: the flower hath no sent at all, but commendable onely for the beauty and forme thereof: after the flower is past, commeth in the place a round head seeming three square, containing therein small and yellowish seede.Dens Caninus flore purpurascente.Dogs tooth with a pale purple flower.This other Dogs tooth is like vnto the former, but lesser in all parts, the leafe whereof is not so long, but broad and short, spotted with darker lines and spots: the flower is like the other, but smaller, and of a delayed purple colour, very pale sometimes, and sometimes a little deeper, turning it selfe as the other, with a circle round about the vmbone or middle, the chiues hereof are not white, but declining to purple: the roote is white, and like vnto the former, but lesser, as is said before.Dens Caninus flore rubro.Dogs tooth with a red flower.This is in all things like vnto the last, both for forme and bignesse of flower and leafe: the chiefe difference consisteth in this, that the leaues hereof are of a yellowish mealy greene colour, spotted and streaked with redder spots and stripes, and the flower of a deeper reddish purple colour, and the chiues also more purplish then the last, in all other things it is alike.The Place.The sortsDens Caninusdoe growe in diuers places; some in Italy on the Euganean Hils, others on the Apenine, and some about Gratz, the chiefe Citie of Stiria, and also about Bayonne, and in other places.The Time.They flower in March most vsually, and many times in Aprill, according to the seasonablenesse of the yeare.The Names.Clusius did call it firstDentali, and Lobel, and from him some othersSatyrium, andErythronium, but I haue said enough hereof in the beginning ofthe Chapter. It is most commonly calledDens Caninus, and we in English, either Dogs tooth, or Dogs tooth Violet. Gesner called itHermodactylus, and MatthiolusPseudohermodactylus.The Vertues.The roote hereof is held to bee of more efficacy for venerous effects, then any of the Orchides and Satyrions.They of Stiria vse the rootes for the falling sicknesse.Wee haue had from Virginia a roote sent vnto vs, that wee might well iudge, by the forme and colour thereof being dry, to be either the roote of this, or of an Orchis, which the naturall people hold not onely to be singular to procure lust, but hold it as a secret, loth to reueale it.
Vnto the kindes of Orchides, may fitly be ioyned another plant, which by many is reckoned to be aSatyrium, both from the forme of roote and leafe, and from the efficacy or vertue correspondent thereunto. And although it cannot be theSatyrium Erythroniumof Dioscorides, as some would entitle it, for that as I haue shewed before, hisSatyrium tryphillumis the Tulipa without all doubt; yet because it differeth very notably, and carrieth more beauty and respect in his flower then they, I shall entreate thereof in a Chapter by it selfe, and set it next vnto them.
The white Dogs tooth hath for his roote a white bulbe, long and small, yet vsually greater then either of the other that follow, bigger belowe then aboue, with a small peece adioyning to the bottome of it, from whence rise vp in the beginning of the Spring, after the Winter frosts are past, two leaues for the most part (when it will flower, or else but one, and neuer three together that euer I saw) closed together when they first come vp out of the ground, which inclose the flower betweene them: the leaues when they are opened do lay themselues flat on the ground, or not much aboue it, one opposite vnto the other, with the stalke and the flower on it standing betweene them, which leaues are of a whitish greene colour, long and narrow, yet broader in themiddle then at both ends, growing lesse by degrees each way, spotted and striped all ouer the leaues with white lines and spots: the stalke riseth vp halfe a foote high or more, bearing at the toppe one flower and no more, hanging downe the head, larger then any of the other of this kinde that follow, made or consisting of six white long and narrow leaues, turning themselues vp againe, after it hath felt the comfort of the Sunne, that they doe almost touch the stalke againe, very like vnto the flowers ofCyclamenor Sowebread: it hath in the middle of the flower six white chiues, tipt with darke purple pendents, and a white three forked stile in the middle of them: the flower hath no sent at all, but commendable onely for the beauty and forme thereof: after the flower is past, commeth in the place a round head seeming three square, containing therein small and yellowish seede.
This other Dogs tooth is like vnto the former, but lesser in all parts, the leafe whereof is not so long, but broad and short, spotted with darker lines and spots: the flower is like the other, but smaller, and of a delayed purple colour, very pale sometimes, and sometimes a little deeper, turning it selfe as the other, with a circle round about the vmbone or middle, the chiues hereof are not white, but declining to purple: the roote is white, and like vnto the former, but lesser, as is said before.
This is in all things like vnto the last, both for forme and bignesse of flower and leafe: the chiefe difference consisteth in this, that the leaues hereof are of a yellowish mealy greene colour, spotted and streaked with redder spots and stripes, and the flower of a deeper reddish purple colour, and the chiues also more purplish then the last, in all other things it is alike.
The Place.The sortsDens Caninusdoe growe in diuers places; some in Italy on the Euganean Hils, others on the Apenine, and some about Gratz, the chiefe Citie of Stiria, and also about Bayonne, and in other places.
The sortsDens Caninusdoe growe in diuers places; some in Italy on the Euganean Hils, others on the Apenine, and some about Gratz, the chiefe Citie of Stiria, and also about Bayonne, and in other places.
The Time.They flower in March most vsually, and many times in Aprill, according to the seasonablenesse of the yeare.
They flower in March most vsually, and many times in Aprill, according to the seasonablenesse of the yeare.
The Names.Clusius did call it firstDentali, and Lobel, and from him some othersSatyrium, andErythronium, but I haue said enough hereof in the beginning ofthe Chapter. It is most commonly calledDens Caninus, and we in English, either Dogs tooth, or Dogs tooth Violet. Gesner called itHermodactylus, and MatthiolusPseudohermodactylus.
Clusius did call it firstDentali, and Lobel, and from him some othersSatyrium, andErythronium, but I haue said enough hereof in the beginning ofthe Chapter. It is most commonly calledDens Caninus, and we in English, either Dogs tooth, or Dogs tooth Violet. Gesner called itHermodactylus, and MatthiolusPseudohermodactylus.
The Vertues.The roote hereof is held to bee of more efficacy for venerous effects, then any of the Orchides and Satyrions.They of Stiria vse the rootes for the falling sicknesse.Wee haue had from Virginia a roote sent vnto vs, that wee might well iudge, by the forme and colour thereof being dry, to be either the roote of this, or of an Orchis, which the naturall people hold not onely to be singular to procure lust, but hold it as a secret, loth to reueale it.
The roote hereof is held to bee of more efficacy for venerous effects, then any of the Orchides and Satyrions.
They of Stiria vse the rootes for the falling sicknesse.
Wee haue had from Virginia a roote sent vnto vs, that wee might well iudge, by the forme and colour thereof being dry, to be either the roote of this, or of an Orchis, which the naturall people hold not onely to be singular to procure lust, but hold it as a secret, loth to reueale it.