This bulbous Violet hath three or foure very greene, broad, flat, and short leaues, among which riseth vp a naked greene stalke, bearing out of a small skinny hose (as the former Daffodils doe) one white flower, hanging downe his head by a very small foot-stalke, made of six leaues, of an equall length, euery one whereof is tipt at the end with a small greenish yellow spot: after the flower is past, the head or seed-vessell groweth to be reasonable great, somewhat long and round, wherein is contained hard round seede, which being dry, is cleare, and of a whitish yellow colour: the roote is somewhat like a Daffodill roote, and couered with a blackish outside or skinne. _Leucoium bulbosum præcox minus._ The lesser early bulbous Violet. This lesser kinde riseth vp with two narrow grayish greene leaues, between which commeth forth the stalke, fiue or six inches high, bearing one small pendulous flower, consisting of three white leaues, which are small and pointed, standing on the outside, and hauing three other shorter leaues, which seeme like a cup in the middle, being each of them round at the ends, and cut in the middle, making the forme of an heart, with a greene tippe or spot at the broad end or edge: the seede is whitish, inclosed in long and round heads, like the former, but lesser: the roote is like a small Daffodill, with a blackish gray coate, and quickly diuideth into many of-sets. [Sidenote: _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. 1. _Leucoium bulbosum Vernum minimum._ The small bulbous Violet of the Spring.