

77/f Garden of p leaf ant F/oivers. 



laith : and in many Countries of Germany, as Hungarie, Aullria, Stiria, 

 and Bohemia, as Clulius and other doe report. 



The Time. 



They flower for the moft part in lune, yet the firft of thefe is the earlielt 

 of all the relh 



The Names. 



All thefe Lillies are called Lilia Rubra, Red Lillies : Some call them 

 Lilitim Aurcum, Lilium Pitrpnrcum, Lilium Puniceum, & Lilium Crucntum. 

 Some alfo call them Martagon Chimiftartim. Clulius calleth thefe bulbed 

 Lillies Miirttig')ii Bulbiferum. It is thought to be Hyacitithus Poctarum, but I 

 referre the difcufling thereof to a fitter time. Wee haue, to diftinguifh them 

 molt fitly (as I take it) giuen their proper names in their feucrall titles. 



CHAP. VI. 



Lilium Album. The White Lilly. 



NOw remaineth onely the White Lilly, of all the whole family or rtocke of the 

 Lillies, to bee fpoken of, which is of two forts. The one is our common or 

 vulgar White Lilly ; and the other, that which was brought from Conftanti- 

 nople. 



Lilium Album vu/gare. The ordinary White Lilly. 



The ordinary White Lilly fcarce needeth any defcription, it is fo well knowne, 

 and fo frequent in euery Garden ; but to fay fomewhat thereof, as I vfe to doe of euery 

 thing, be it neuer fo common and knowne ; it hath a cloued or fcaly roote, yellower 

 and bigger then any of the red Lillies : the ftalke is of a blackifh greene colour, and 

 rileth as high as mort ot the Lillies, hauing many faire, broad, and long greene leaues 

 thereon, larger and longer beneath, and fmaller vpon the ftalke vpwards ; the flowers 

 are many or few, according to the age of the plant, fertility of the foile, and time of 

 ftanding where it groweth : and Hand vpon long greene footftalkes, of a faire white 

 colour, with a long pointell in the middle, and white chiues tipt with yellow pendents 

 about it ; the fmell is fomewhat heady and ftrong. 



Lilium Album Byzantinum. The White Lilly of Constantinople. 



The other White Lilly, differeth but little from the former White Lilly, either in 

 roote, leafe, or flower, but only that this vfually groweth with more number of flow- 

 ers, then euer we faw in our ordinary White Lilly : for I haue feene the ftalke of this 

 Lilly turne flat, ot the breadth of an hand, bearing neere two hundred flowers vpon a 

 head, yet molt commonly it beareth not aboue a dozen, or twenty flowers, but fmal- 

 ler then the ordinary, as the greene leaues are likewife. 



The Place. 



The firtt groweth onely in Gardens, and hath not beene declared where 

 it is found wilde, by any that I can heare of. The other hath beene lent from 

 Constantinople, among other rootes, and therefore is likely to grow in 

 fome parts neere thereunto. 



The Time. 



They flower in lune or thereabouts, but ftioote forth greene leaues in 



Autumne, 



