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Germane Floure de-luce. 



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This final Floure de-luce of Dalmatia is in ft 

 luce co the precedent , but rather rcfembling iris Ufa 

 being both of one ftature, fraall and dvvarfe plants in ^ 

 fpe6l of the greater. The floures be of a more blew ?' 

 Jour : they floure likewife in May 3 as the others doe , L 

 beware that ye neuer caft any cold water vpon them 



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that they wither away and rot immediatly, as I my f e !f 



th<5fe which I leftvnwatred 



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tugall ro vs.lt bringeth-forth in the Spring time flour, 



of a purple or violet colour,frne!ling like a violet, vvith 4 

 white hairy weltdowne the middle. The root is thick 

 and fiiortjftubborne or hard to breakc. In Jeaues and 

 fhew it is like to the Ieffer Floure 'de-luce of Dalmatia 

 but the Ieauesare more fpred abroad, and it commonly 

 hath but one ftalke, which in Autumne floureth again/ 

 and bringcth forth the like floures ; for which caufe it is 



called Iris bi flora. 



6 Iruviolaeca is Iikevnto the former,but much fmal. 

 Ier,and the floure is of amotedcepe violet colour. 



7 Catolus Clufim that excellent and learned Fatherof 

 Herbarifts,hath fet forth in his Panonick Obferuations 



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broad Ieaues thick and fat, of a purple colour necrevnto 

 the ground, like the great Dalmatian Floure de-luce, 



fwc. 



mgdry , drilling with the Florentine hit in fweetneffe. 



- The floure is of all other moft confufedly mixed with 

 iundry co!ours,inforaucb that my pen cannot fet downc euery line or ftreake as it deferueth. The 



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of the pale coloured edge. It fmelleth like the Hauthornc floures,being lightly fraelled vnto. 

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c Floure de-luces. The floure groweth at the top of the 

 ftalke, confifting of fix great Ieaues blew of co!our,welted downethemiddle with white tending 

 to .yellow; at the bottome next the ftalke it is white of colour, with fome yellowncfle fringed a- 

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ry 3 and did communicate one of the plants thereof to Clufius ; whofe f. „ -M1 „,„„ „^ 



forth with thisdefcription,differing fomevvhat from that which IoachTmm himfelfe did giue into 

 me at his being in London. The leaues,faithhe,are very large,twice fo broad as any of the others. 



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The ftalk is Angle and fmooth 5 the floure eroweth at the top.of a moft bright fhinin^ bl 



wik fweet like trcos. 



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flanding our London gardens are very well ftorcd with euery one of them. 



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Their time of flouring anfwereth the other Floure de-luces, \ 



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The Dalmatian Floure de-luce is called in Grecke of Athcnuus and Theof>brafttts,Ieris: it is na- 

 med alfo Ouranh^ of the heauenly Bow or Rainbow : vpon the like occafion,T^«7«.'/?w,or Admi"" 3 ' 

 ble : for the Poets fometime docall the Rainbow, Tbaumantias : in Latine, Irii : in Englifh, Floure 

 de-luce. Their feuerall titles dofufficiently diftinguirti them 3 whercby they may be knowne one 

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