^ 



\6 % 



Of -the Hiftorie of Plant 



s 



L 



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uin^nfi ? flourcispofre(Ted byanother little flouic,confiftingalfo of fix litt^cT^ 

 uing m them fix threds headed with yellow, and .white pointall A b IzckoJr ink I iS c I y ha * 

 tained.m three cornered heads.which bv r^fon JXX £"! X\^!r ^ v; nn ^ lcd / c ^ » con- 



floures in Aprill. 



$ 8 Ornithogdum (pi cat urn. 



Spike fafhioned Star floure 



$ 9 Ornithogdum Neapolttanum. 



The Neapolitan Star-floure. 







10 



I 



3 



J I 



of Bethlehem, or Star-floure 



3 



lie open totheaire,notonely in Germany and the Low- countries, but alfo in E ngland, and in our 

 gardens very common. The yellow kinde Lobel found in Some rfet-fh ire in the corne fields. The 

 reft are ftrangers in England 5 yet we haue moft.of them, as the third, fourth, eighth, and ninth, ifl 



fo 



! 



kindes of bulbed 



qj 7#* T/>w # 





2> /'<?/? 



it 



lied 



jf eiti? toibel,3Kcfter j totbel 



* 



named in their titles & hiftories : but Clufi, 



4 



iperature 



• 



A 



/Mw be not BtUbine o{Theophrafius> 7. £//?. 13. &*«» 

 of Diofcorides and Theophrafius^sto&Bfimedittmofl 



Thefe are temperate in heate and drinefle. 



«r The Virtues. -. 



The vcrtues of moft of them are vnknown : yet ^jjw 7>£» wi ^™^ f ^ p „l. 

 Star of Bethlehem rofted in hot embers 5 and applied with honey in manner of a cataplafme or pu 

 fTe healeth old eating vlcers,and foftens and difciiffes hard tumora. 



tiled. 



of the ftmc j Unr, t« * * 



Chap. 



tfcorides 



* That whieh was the G co„d of our Au.hor.vnder .he ^'fW^^ff ^^S^T" "" ^ 



