ae. the Paradile of. Plants. 67 
CHAP. D.XXXMT, | 
Of. the E lower de Luce, 
. The Names, 
4 He Greeks call it,’Te’s as alfo. “Heels, risen sonaneanae fome aoe 
~ ranflated it Comfecr atrix, all : huge things being counted by - 
the Ancients to be Holy; bur irwas called Iris,a caleftis Arcis fr 
militudine, quam flores ejus reprefentant ; from the Rainbow whofe va- 
Ons colours gesonet thereof aos disse harebses dome hereto- 
rhis i is an errour prac 
which fignifies a whire aie eas 
e see by changin raat fyllable, 
away spac letter ‘Deanenes. a 
if the Lilly and che Tris were all one, 
of which moft Authors make a tion : It is called. _Raaix Maria, 
it is excellent for the Piles ; and fom haye call Ni 
River Naren, by which great, , Howes : 
Mattholus, rs did fo liek t 
from him divers did fo call i roneouf, : xind of flow- 
er de lncoaa D Gladw which is a kind hereof, alfo is 
ryris 0 ob bE Pit Meleedien. quafs Raforinm cultrum, aut 
dixeris ; becaufe of it Swordlike or fharpedged Leaf, andin Latine 
Spatula,or Spathula : Farida ; for Spathd,is taken for.a {word as Gladinns i is ; and. 
T have heard it called Roft Beef, for that the leaves being bruifed {mell fome> 
what like it, ° Use Fagebinei called in Eng rare: but eatconmealy: | 
Orvis. wae ta 3igt 7 ; Es 
So many she ind don in Feri me of Pldne 
fer down ; : which are eigh he greater Broad leafed Floy 
Narroy ae : Se Fw at aia. : 4 
