Florum et coronariarum historia

...differs only in this: it has similar stems and leaves, but smaller; the flowers are also not of a single color, but rather white, or reddish, or purple-red, like the larger variety. The seed pods and seeds are also similar. This kind blooms not in the Spring, but in June, July, or August, and in the same year it was sown; it perishes in winter.

There is indeed also a Stock original: "Leucoion" with multiple petals This refers to a "double-flowered" variety, which was highly prized by early modern gardeners, but it is very rare; it is of the larger variety and begins to bloom in early Spring, requiring greater care in the winter months so it is not harmed by the cold. These are generally sown in gardens.

Besides these, there is also a certain wild white Stock, low-growing and small, which grows in maritime places in Zeeland A coastal province of the Netherlands; and also near Montpellier, as Gesner Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), a renowned Swiss naturalist and polymath writes.

Furthermore, there is also a certain bulbous Stock Likely referring to the Snowdrop or Snowflake, which early botanists often grouped with stocks because of their white color, which will be discussed in the following chapters.

Mattioli Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501–1577), an influential Italian physician and botanist also depicts a certain shrubby Violet with broad leaves; a fragrant flower like that of the Larkspur original: "Consolidae regiae"; a stem two cubits cubit|An ancient unit of length, roughly 18 inches, based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger high; brought from Mount Baldo and sent to him by Francesco Calzolari, a pharmacist of Verona. He names it the "Arborescent Violet" original: "Violam arborescentem".

It is called leukoion original: "λευκοϊον" in Greek, indeed Viola alba White Violet in Latin, and Keyri by the Arabs. Our people call the larger kind Stock Gillyflowers original: "Stock Violieren"; and the smaller kind, Gentlemen's Gillyflowers original: "heere Violieren". Both may be appropriately called "white"—on account of the whiteness Referring to the hoary, silver-white fuzzy texture of the leaves of the leaves, as we have said—to distinguish them from the yellow variety, which is the most excellent.

In their medicinal properties original: "facultate", these Stocks do not seem unlike the Yellow Stock; yet they are weaker in their powers.

ON THE YELLOW STOCK. CHAPTER IV.

The Yellow Stock Usually identified as the Wallflower, Erysimum cheiri has green, branching stems and narrow, oblong leaves that are smooth and dark green in color, unlike those of the White Stock...