Minus Byzantinum.
There is another of this kinde, that came among other bulbous rootes from Constantinople, and differeth in nothing from it, but that it is a little greater, both in root, leafe, and flower.
The Place.
The two first are found in many places of Germany, and Hungary. The third, as I said, was brought from Constantinople.
The Time.
The two lesser sorts doe most commonly flower in February, if the weather be any thing milde, or at the furthest in the beginning of March, but the first is seldome in flower, before the other be well neare past, or altogether.
The Names.
Lobel and Dodonæus call the lesser kinde Leucoium triphyllum, and Leuconarcissolirion triphyllum, of the three leaues in the flower. Some doe call it Viola bulbosa alba. The first or greater kinde is called by Lobel, Leuconarcissolirion paucioribus floribus; and by Dodonæus, Leucoium bulbosum hexaphyllum. We doe most vsually call them, Leucoium bulbosum præcox maius, & minus, The greater, or the lesser early bulbous Violet. In Dutch, Somer Sottekens, and not Druiskens, which are Grape-flowers, as some haue thought.