These haue no great vse in Physick that I know: only some haue vsed the leaues of the single white flowred kinde with salt, to be laid to the wrests of them that haue agues, but with what good successe I cannot say, if it happen well I thinke in one (as many such things else will) it will fayle in a number.
Chap. 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.
| 1 | Leucoium Melancholicum. Sullen Stocke-Gilloflowers. |
| 2 | Leucoium sativum flore pleno. Double Stocke-Gilloflowers. |
| 3 | Leucoium sativum flore pleno vario. Party coloured Stocke-Gilloflowers. |
| 4 | Leucoium marinum Syriacum. Leuant Stocke-Gilloflowers. |
| 5 | Hesperis vulgaris. Dames Violets or Winter Gilloflowers. |
| 6 | Lysimachia lutea siliquosa Virginiana. The tree Primrose of Virginia. |
| 7 | Viola lunaris siue Bolbonach. The white Sattin flower. |