L 1 B. I.' 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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C h a p . 8z. Of Woolly "Bulbiis. 



Bulb us Brief horm 



Woolly lacinth 



% ThDtfcrht, 





Here hath fallen out to be here inferred a 

 bulbous plant confifting of many Bulbes, 

 which hath parted currant amongft all our 

 late Writers. The which I am to fet forth to the 

 view of our Nation, as others haue done in fun- 

 dry languages to theirs,as a kind of the lacinrhs, 

 which in roots and leaucs it doth very well refem- 

 blejcalled of the Grecians, •e 6 »*.^ .• inLatine,Z*. 

 niferus, becau fe of his aboundance of Wooll-re- 

 femblingfubftance, wherewith the whole Plant 

 is m euery part full fraughr, as well roots, leaues, 

 as flattest The leaues are broad, thicke, fat,full 

 of juice, and of a fpider-like web when they be 

 broken. Among thefe leaues rifeth vp a flalke 

 two cubits high , much like vnto the flalke of 

 Sqiulla or Sea- Onion 5 and from the middle to 

 the top iris befet round about with many fmall 

 \itarre-like blew floures without fmel J, very like 

 to the floures of Afphodill s beginning to floufe 

 at the bottome and fo vpward by degrees,where- 

 by it is long before it haue done flouring ? which 

 floures the learned Phyfitian of Vienna, lohames 

 Aicfolzi^defaed long to fee } who brought it 

 firft from Conftantinople, and planted it in his 

 Garden, where he nourifhed it tenne yeares with 

 great curiofi tie 5 which time being expired,thin- 

 king it do be a barren plant, he fent it to Carols 

 Ctujtus, with whom in fome few yeres it did bears 

 fuch floures as are before defcribed, but neuer 

 fince to this day. This paincfull Herbarift would 



thefe floures 



ked 



g onely a few chaffie and 



yeares, whereof I baue yeare y oreat ZZjt -T P °" el ed "J* thls P lant « *e kaft twelue 



ding or flouring tothis^ay ^^ ^ tokcn of br- 



other of my garden to <h5 JX • ftandin g * ^li be content to fuffer it in fome bafe place or 



- ^^m^^Tj^^ZI^^ and vertues therehath noc 



Chap. 83. Of two feigned Wants. 



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 •ndadufilSr* Thr d b J tradition from others, though 



theft 



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