Obs. Herb. The plant ‘Honesty’ (Lunaria biennis).
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. vi. 154. The Herboristes … do call this herbe by a certayne barbarous and strange name Bolbonac.
1597. Gerard, Herbal, cxvii. § 1. Bolbonac or the Sattin flower.
1640. Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 1366. Viola Lunaria sive Bulbonach.
