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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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IB. I 



I Mufcari fiavum. 



Yellow musked Grape-floure. 



2 Mufcari Cluftj . 



Aih-colourcd Grape-floure 



Mufcari caul is filiquU onufius. 



The ftalke of Mufcari hanged with the feed 



^ The Place. 



Thefe plants came from beyond the Thra- 

 cian Bofphorus, out of Afia,and from about 

 Conftantinople, and by the tneancs of Friend* 

 haue been brought into thefc parts of Europe, 

 whereof our London gardens are polTelTed. 



^j The 'time. 



They floure in March and Aprill,and fore- 

 times after. 



^ 7 he Names, 



LMufc 



Dipcadi 



ifchormi, Mufi 



MAtthiolu 



be referred vnto the Iacinths,whercof vndoub 



:dly 



Th 



^f 7 he Nature and Vertues. 



ched concerning the nature or vertues of thefe 

 Plants, onely they are kept and maintained in 

 gardens for the pleafant fmell of their floures, 

 but not for their beauty.for that many (linking 

 field floures do in beautie farre furpaflc them. 

 Vomitorius,m that he fuppofed they procure vo- 

 miting -which of other Authorshath not bin 



remembred. 



C H a p. 



