It hath diuers names, as well in English as in Latine; for it is called most vsually _Bolbonach_, and _Viola Lunaris_: Of some _Viola latifolia_, and of others _Viola Peregrina_, and _Lunaria Græca_, _Lunaria maior_, and _Lunaria odorata_, and is thought to be _Thlaspi Crateuæ_: In English, White Satten, or Satten flower: Of some it is called Honesty, and Penny-flower. The Vertues. Some doe vse to eate the young rootes hereof, before they runne vp to flower, as Rampions are eaten with Vinegar and Oyle; but wee know no Physicall vse they haue. CHAP. XLIII. _Linum siluestre & Linaria._ Wilde Flaxe and Tode Flaxe. Although neither the manured Line or Flaxe is a plant fit for our Garden, nor many of the wilde sorts, yet there are some, whose pleasant and delightfull aspect doth entertaine the beholders eyes with good content, and those I will set downe here for varietie, and adioyne vnto them some of the _Linarias_, or Tode Flaxe, for the neare affinity with them. 1. _Linum siluestre flore albo._ Wilde Flaxe with a white flower. This kinde of wilde Flaxe riseth vp with diuers slender branches, a foote high or better, full of leaues, standing without order, being broader and longer then the manured Flaxe: the tops of the branches haue diuers faire white flowers on them, composed of fiue large leaues a peece, with many purple lines or strikes in them: the seede vessell as well as the seede, is like vnto the heads and seede of the manured Flaxe: the rootes are white strings, and abide diuers yeares, springing fresh branches and leaues euery yeare, but not vntill the Spring of the yeare. 2. _Linum siluestre luteum._ Wilde Flaxe with a yellow flower. This wilde Flaxe doth so well resemble a kinde of St. Iohns wort, that it will soone deceiue one that doth not aduisedly regard it: For it hath many reddish stalkes, and small leaues on them, broader then the former wilde Flaxe, but not so long, which are well stored with yellow flowers, as large as the former, made of fiue leaues a peece, which being past, there come small flattish heads, containing blackish seede, but not shining like the former: the rootes hereof dye not euery yeare, as many other of the wilde kindes doe, but abide and shoote out euery yeare. 3. _Linaria purpurea._ Purple Tode Flaxe.