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, The Kindes ; 
Though there be divers Sorts of Lillies, yer I fhall only fet down thefe, 1, The 
white Lily. 2. The white Lilly of (onftantinople. 3.The goldred Lilly, 4,The 
red Lilly. 5. The fieryred Lilly. 6, The great Mountain Lilly. 7. The fmall- 
Mountain Lilly. 8. The red Lilly of Conftantinople.g, The Perfian Lilly.1oThe 
‘Crown Imperial, 11, The double Crown Imperiall. . : at 
The Forme, — 
_ The white Lilly hath long, {mooth, and full bodied Leaves, of a graffie, or light 
ereen.colour. The ftalks are two Cubits high, and fometimes more, fet or gare 
nifhed with the like Leaves, but growing imaller and imailer towards the top; 
and upon them do grow fair white Flowers, firong of imell, narrow towards the 
foot of the flalk, whereonthey do grow wide or open inthe mouth, like a Bell, 
In the middle part of chem,‘ dogrow imall tender Poyntels, tipped witha duly, 
yellow colour, ribbed or chamfered. on the back fide, con.s{\ing ot {ix{mall leaves, 
which are thick and fat. The Root is a bulb made of Scaly Cloves, full of rongh and 
clammy juyce, wherewith the whole Plantdothgreatlyabonnd, = 
The Places and Time, Bors erage 
~The firfegrowethin many Gardens inExgland: The fecond at Conftantinople 
vand the:patrs:adjacent, from whence it was tranflated into our Englifh Gardens, 
here al ollow areplantedalio, the red Lillies being brought the 
aher, out ofthe plowed Fields of /raly and Langue-dock, in the Mowntains and 
Nallies of Hetruria, and thole places adjacent,where they grow wild,The Moun- 
tain Lillies, as Diofcorides wriceth, do grow wildin Laodicea, and Antioch, aCity — 
of Syria t and hath likewife been found upon the Mountains in /ta/y,and {ach Ga po 
Countries,as. doborder upon Adorea or Greece, many dayes journies beyond Com 
ftantinople, whereabouts the red Lilly of Conftantinople alfo groweth. The Per fas 
Lilly groweth naturally in Perfia, and thofe places adjacent, whereof it took its. 
name, as the former did from Conftantinople, whence the Crowns Imperiall. ha ve ne 
been alfo brought. They all flowre in Aday and June, except the Crown Imperial, 
ich flowreth in «April, and fometimesin “March, when as the weatheris- 
___ The white Lilly Leaves and Flowers.are hot and moyft, and partly of afubrle 
fubliance, the Root is dry in the firft degree, and hot inthe fecond, The Flowre 
of the red Lilly (as Galen{aith) is of a mixt temperature, partilyofathin,and - 
partly of an earthy Effence. The Root and Leaves do dry and cleanie, and mode- 
" fately digeft, or waft, and confume away, All Authours are filent concerning the 
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with Milk, as fome fign thar this Plant isto be appropeiacested the Paps, elpear 
