io8 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



dils) hath diuers broad whitifh greene leaues, but not very long, among which rifeth 

 vp a ftiffe round ftalke, at the top whereof breaketh out of a great round skinny huske, 

 flue or fix flowers, euery one made fomewhat of the fafhion of the great baftard Rufh 

 Daffodill, but greater, and wholly white; the fix leaues, being larger and longer 

 then in the Rum kinde, and extending beyond the trunke, are tipt with greene at the 

 point of each leafe, and downe the middle likewife on the backfide. The trunke is 

 longer, larger, and wider open at the mouth, cut in or indented at the brims or edges, 

 and fmall at the bottome, with diuers white threeds in the middle, and is very fweet : 

 vnder the flower is a round greene head, which groweth very great, hauing within it, 

 when it is ripe, flat and blacke feede : the roote is great and white. 



Flare lutes, tf It is reported, that there are found other forts ; fome that beare yellow flowers, and 



fare rubra. others that beare red : but we haue feene none fuch, and therefore I can fay no more of 



them. 



The Place. 



ance, 



This kinde groweth neare the Sea lide, both in Spaine, Italy, and Fra 

 within the Straights, and for the moft part, vpon all the Leuant fhoare and 

 Iflands alfo, but will feldome either flower, or abide with vs in thefe colder 

 Countries, as I haue both feene by thofe that I receiued from a friend, ai 

 heard by others. 



The Time. 



It flowreth in the end of Summer, that is, in Auguft and September. 



The Name. 



Diuers doe call it Pancratium, as the learned of Mompeher, and others, 

 with the addition of fare Lilij, after they had left their old errour, in taking 

 it to be Scylla, and vfmg it for Scylla, in the Trochifces that go into Androma- 

 chus Treakle. The learned of Valentia in Spaine, as Clufms faith," doe call 

 it Hemerocallis, thinking it to be a Lilly ; and Clufms doth thereupon call it, 

 Hemerocallis Valentina: but in my opinion, all thefe are deceiued in this 

 plant ; for it is neither a Lilly, to haue the name of Hemerocallis giuen vnto 

 it, nor Scylla, nor Pancratium, as many doe yet call it : for certainly this is a 

 kinde of Daffodill ; the forme both of roote, leafe, and flower, doth affure 

 me that haue feene it, and not Pancratium, which (as Diofcorides teftifieth) 

 is a kinde of Scylla, and in his time called Scylla, with a red roote, and a leafe 

 like a Lilly, but longer, and was vfed both with the fame preparation and 

 quantity, and for the fame difeafes that Scylla was vfed, but that his force 

 was weaker : all which doth plainly fhew the errours that many learned men 

 haue been conuerfant in, and that all may fee how necefTary the knowledge 

 of Herbarifme is to the practice of Phyficke ; And left the roote of this Sea 

 baftard Daffodill bee vfed in the ftead of an wholefome remedy, which (as 

 Clufms maketh mention) was deadly to him that did but cut his meate with 

 that knife, which had immediately before cut this roote, and done in malice 

 by him, that knew the force thereof, to kill his fellow, it working the more 

 forceably by the euill attracting quality of the iron. 



The Vertues of Daffodils in generall. 



Howfoeuer Diofcorides and others, doe giue vnto fome of them fpeci- 

 all properties, both for inward and outward difeafes, yet know I not any in 

 thefe dayes with vs, that apply any of them as a remedy for any griefe, 

 whatfoeuer Gerrard or others haue written. 



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