The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 3 i 



ftemme growing from it. The ftalke is brownilh and round at the bottome, and fome- 

 timcs flat from the middle vpwards, three foote high or more, befet at certaine diftan- 

 ces with rondles or circles of many broad leaues, larger and broader lor the molt part 

 than any other of this kinde, and of a darke green colour : It hath two or three, and 

 fometimes foure ot thefe rondles or circles of leaues, and bare without any leafe bc- 

 tweene ; but aboue toward the tops of the ftalkes, it hath here and there fome leaues 

 vpon it, but f mailer than any of the other leaues : at the toppe of the ftalke come forth 

 many flowers, fometime three or foure fcore, thicke thruft, or confufedly fet together, 

 and not thinne or fparfedly one aboue another, as in the lelTer of this kinde of Moun- 

 taine Lilly. It hath been fometimes alfo obferued in this kinde, that it hath borne ma- 

 nie flowers at three feuerall fpaces of the ftalke, one aboue another, which hath made 

 a goodly Ihew ; each flower whereof is pendulous, hanging downe, and each leafe of 

 the flower turning vp againe, being thicke or flefhy, of a fine delayed purple colour, 

 fpotted with many blackilh or brownifh fpots, of a very pleasant fweet fent, which ma- 

 keth it the more acceptable : in the middle of the flower hangeth downe a ftile or 

 pointell, knobbed or buttoned at the end with lixe yellow chiues, tipt with loofe pen- 

 dents of an Orient red or Vermillion colour, which will ealily fticke like duft vpon 

 any thing that toucheth them : the heads or feede veflels are fmall and round, with 

 fmall edges about them, wherein is contained flat browne feede like other Lillies, but 

 lefler. This root is very apt to encreafe or fet of, as we call it, wherby the plant feldome 

 commeth to fo great a head of flowers, but rifeth vp with many ftalkes, and then carry 

 fewer flowers. 



Of this kinde there is fometimes one found, that beareth flowers without any fpots : Martagon 

 the leaues whereof and ftalke likewife are paler, but not elfe differing. Impenak 



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Martagon Jiore albo. The White Martagon. 



We haue alfo fome other of this kind, the firft wherof hath his ftalke & leafe greener 

 than the former, the ftalke is a little higher, but not bearing fo thicke a head of flowers, 

 although much more plentifull than the lefler Mountaine Lilly, being altogether of a 

 fine white colour, without any fpots, or but very few, and that but fometimes alfo : the 

 pendents in the middle of this flower are not red, as the former, but yellow ; the roote 

 of this, and of the other two that follow, are of a pale yellow colour, the cloues or 

 fcales of them being brittle, and not clofely compact, yet fo as if two, and fometimes 

 three fcales or cloues grew one vpon the head or vpperpart of another; which diffe- 

 rence is a fpeciall note to know thefe three kindes, from any other kinde of Mountaine 

 Lilly, as in all old rootes that I haue feene, I haue obferued, as alfo in them that are rea- 

 fonably well growne, but in the young rootes it is not yet fo manifeft. 



Martagon //ore albo maculato. The White fpotted Martagon. 



The fecond is like vnto the firft in all things, faue in this, that the flowers hereof are 

 not altogether fo white, and beiides hath many reddilh fpots on the infide of the leaues 

 of the flower, and the ftalke alfo is not fo greene but brownilh. 



Martagon fore carneo. The blufh Martagon. 



A third fort there is of this kinde, whofe flowers are wholly of a delayed flefh co- 

 lour, with many fpots on the flowers, and this is the difference hereof from the former. 



Li/ium Montanum Jiue Jiluejtre minus. The lefler Mountaine Lilly. 



The lefler Mountaine Lilly is fo like in root vnto the greater that is firft defcribed, 

 that it is hard to diftinguifh them afunder ; but when this is fprungvp out of the ground, 

 which is a moneth after the firft : it alfo carrieth his leaues in rondles about the ftalke, 

 although not altogether fo great nor fo many. The flowers are more thinly fet on the 

 ftalkes one aboue another, with more diftance betweene each flower than the former, 

 and are of a little deeper flefh colour or purple, fpotted in the fame manner. The buds 



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