

Lib. i 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants 





105 



^ 4 GfJiohis Lacufl 



Water Sword-1 



A 





^f The Defcripion. 



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1 T^iRench Corne-flagge hath fmall ftiffe 



JH leaues ribbed or chamfered with long 

 ncrues or finues running through the 

 fame,in fliape like thofe of the fmall Floure de- 

 luce, or the blade of a fword, fharpe pointed, of 

 an ouerworne green colour, among which rifeth 

 vp a (iif brittle ftalk two cubits bigh,wherupon 

 do grow in comly order many faire purple flours 

 gaping like thofe of Snapdragon, or not much 

 differing from the Fox-gloue called in Latine 

 Digitalis. After them come round knobby feed- 

 veflels full of chaffie fced,very light, of a browrt 

 reddilh colour. The root confifts of two bulbes 

 one fet vpon the other ; the vppermott whereof 

 in the beginning of the fpring is leffer 5 and more 

 full of juice ; the lower greater, but mote Ioofe 

 and lithie,which fhortly after perifheth. 



Italian Corn- flag hath long narrow leaues 

 with many ribs or nerues running through the 



2 



th 



orderly placed 



feldom 



ftalk,whereas the precedent bath his floures pla- 

 ced on both fides of the ftalk,in (hape & 

 like the former, as are alfo the roots, but 

 feen oneaboueanother,as in the former. 



3 There is a third fort of Corne-flag,agreeing 

 with the laft defcribed in euery point, faue that 

 the floures of this are of a pale colour,as it were 



blufh. 



Maidens 



* 4 This water Sword- flag, defcribed by Clufim in his Cur.Pofi. hath leaues about a fpanne 

 Jon g> thicke and hollow,with a partition in their middles,Hke as we fee in the cods of ftock Gillo- 

 uers^nd the like ; their colour is greened tafte fweet,fo that they are an acceptable food to the 

 S?^ * ' b ° tt0lT ! ° f the water 5 for the y Sometimes lie fome ells vnder water ; 



which 



i^S^^n* C l l P coIo " r ' aIt "oft in fhape refembling the flours of the Com 



&ed toward the ftalke : the three oth 



ofWeft 



H 



grauell 



ueJeaues>whereof the two vppermoft arc refle- 



ard. A fter the floures there foL 



ofluly. 



a learned Apothecarie of Gro- 



id that bring forth no plant be- 



it hirrijcall it Gladiolus Lacuftris^rStagaalis, 



. T herekindesof Corn P (\»cr« ■ f , TfjePlace - 



Places of Italy asa ir n ;„ *i g gro , vv in me dowes and in earable grounds among corne, in manv 



^andMora^^ « the fieldsoS 



gardensefn^;,.!. r . . r tne m,as cW*, writeth. Wehaue?r M r nl^nrv nfrW ; nn „ f T.j nn 



^« VfpeciaU. fo th e " S S a 7^' Y* e haUe great P Ient y of them * 



7 tm tlie garni fting and decking them vp with their feemly floures 



^ The Time: 

 oflune. 



j^ne-FIagiscall^; /- ■ , % The Names. 



and <?<«&&, fegeta^ T Z2lT} Qi "7 • * Jfe 8 ^ CUdhl "> and <* ***** M» •' of others 



^•callerK rSli™ ^.^difcourfeofpHe^^makethit thefame with* 



doi 



\lisfc 



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Germane 

 Tongue, 



