Diuers doe call it _Pancratium_, as the learned of Mompeher, and others, with the addition of _flore Lilij_, after they had left their old errour, in taking it to be _Scylla_, and vsing it for _Scylla_, in the _Trochisces_ that go into Andromachus Treakle. The learned of Valentia in Spaine, as Clusius saith, doe call it _Hemerocallis_, thinking it to be a Lilly; and Clusius doth thereupon call it, _Hemerocallis Valentina_: but in my opinion, all these are deceiued in this plant; for it is neither a Lilly, to haue the name of _Hemerocallis_ giuen vnto it, nor _Scylla_, nor _Pancratium_, as many doe yet call it: for certainly this is a kinde of Daffodill; the forme both of roote, leafe, and flower, doth assure me that haue seene it, and not _Pancratium_, which (as Dioscorides testifieth) is a kinde of _Scylla_, and in his time called _Scylla_, with a red roote, and a leafe like a Lilly, but longer, and was vsed both with the same preparation and quantity, and for the same diseases that _Scylla_ was vsed, but that his force was weaker: all which doth plainly shew the errours that many learned men haue been conuersant in, and that all may see how necessary the knowledge of Herbarisme is to the practice of Physicke; And lest the roote of this Sea bastard Daffodill bee vsed in the stead of an wholesome remedy, which (as Clusius maketh mention) was deadly to him that did but cut his meate with that knife, which had immediately before cut this roote, and done in malice by him, that knew the force thereof, to kill his fellow, it working the more forceably by the euill attracting quality of the iron. The Vertues of Daffodils in generall. Howsoeuer Dioscorides and others, doe giue vnto some of them speciall properties, both for inward and outward diseases, yet know I not any in these dayes with vs, that apply any of them as a remedy for any griefe, whatsoeuer Gerrard or others haue written. CHAP. X. _Leucoium bulbosum._ The bulbous Violet. Hauing thus set downe the whole family, both of the true and bastard Daffodils, I should next set in hand with the Hyacinths; but because _Leucoium bulbosum_, The bulbous Violet is a plant that doth challenge a place next vnto the Daffodils, as most nearly partaking with them, and a little with the Hyacinthes, I must of necessity interpose them, and shew their descriptions and differences, whereof some are early, of the first Spring, others later, and some of the Autumne. _Leucoium bulbosum præcox maius._ The greater early bulbous Violet.