All these plants are called most vsually in Latine, _Primulæ veris_, _Primulæ pratenses_, and _Primulæ siluarum_, because they shew by their flowring the new Spring to bee comming on, they being as it were the first Embassadours thereof. They haue also diuers other names, as _Herba Paralysis_, _Arthritica_, _Herba Sancti Petri_, _Claues Sancti Petri_, _Verbasculum odoratum_, _Lunaria arthritica_, _Phlomis_, _Alisma siluarum_, and _Alismatis alterum genus_, as Fabius Columna calleth them. The Birds eyes are called of Lobel in Latine, _Paralytica Alpina_, _Sanicula angustifolia_, making a greater and a lesser. Others call them _Sanicula angustifolia_, but generally they are called _Primula veris minor_. I haue (as you see) placed them with the Cowslips, putting a difference betweene Primroses and Cowslips. And some haue distinguished them, by calling the Cowslips, _Primula veris Elatior_, that is, the Taller Primrose, and the other _Humilis_, Lowe or Dwarfe Primroses. In English they haue in like manner diuers names, according to seuerall Countries, as Primroses, Cowslips, Oxelips, Palsieworts, and Petty Mulleins. The first kindes, which are lower then the rest, are generally called by the name of Primroses (as I thinke) throughout England. The others are diuersly named; for in some Countries they call them Paigles or Palsieworts, or Petty Mulleins, which are called Cowslips in others. Those are vsually called Oxelips, whose flowers are naked, or bare without huskes to containe them, being not so sweete as the Cowslip, yet haue they some little sent, although the Latine name doth make them to haue none. The Franticke, Fantasticke, or Foolish Cowslip, in some places is called by Country people, Iacke an Apes on horse-backe, which is an vsuall name with them, giuen to many other plants, as Daisies, Marigolds, &c. if they be strange or fantasticall, differing in the forme from the ordinary kinde of the single ones. The smallest are vsually called through all the North Country, Birds eyen, because of the small yellow circle in the bottomes of the flowers, resembling the eye of a bird. The Vertues.