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purplish color at the bottom, but green above, beset 

 from thence to the middle thereof with many long 

 and broad green leaves of our ordinary white lily, 

 but somewhat shorter and narrower, confusedly 

 without order, and from the middle is bare, or naked, 

 without leaves for a certain space upwards, and then 

 beareth four, six, or ten flowers, more or less, accord- 

 ing to the age of the plant and the fertility of the 

 soil where it groweth. The buds at the first appear- 

 ing are whitish, standing upright among a bush, or 

 tuft, of green leaves, smaller than those below and 

 standing above the flowers. After a while they turn 

 themselves and hang downward every one upon his 

 own footstalk, round about the great stem, or stalk, 

 sometimes of an even depth and other while one 

 lower, or higher, than another, which flowers are 

 near the form of an ordinary Lily, yet somewhat 

 lesser and closer, consisting of six leaves of an 

 orange-color striped with purplish lines and veins, 

 which add a great grace to the flowers. At the bot- 

 tom of the flower, next unto the stalk, every leaf 

 thereof hath on the outside a certain bunch, or 

 eminence, of a dark purplish color, and on the inside 

 there lieth in those hollow bunched places certain 

 clear drops of water like unto pearls, of a very sweet 

 taste, almost like sugar. In the midst of each flower 



