The Garden of pleajant Flowers. 







CHAP. XIII. 



Moly. Wilde Garlickc. 



VNto the former Starre-flowers, mull needes bee ioyned another tribe or kind- 

 red, which carry their itraked flowers Starre-falhion, not fpikewife, but in a 

 tuft or vmbell thicke thrult or let together. And although diuers of them 

 fmell not as the former, but moll of their firll Grandfathers houfe, yet all doe not fo ; 

 for fome of them are of an excellent fcnt. Of the whole Family, there are a great many 

 which 1 mult leaue, I will onely felect out a few for this our Garden, whofe flowers 

 for their beauty of llatelinefie, forme, or colour, are fit to bee entertained, and take 

 place therein, euery one according to his worth, and are accepted of with the louers 

 of thefe delights. 



I. Moly Homcricum, vel potius Theophrajii. 

 The greatell Moly of Homer. 



Homers Moly (for fo it is moll vfually called with vs) rifeth vp moll commonly 

 with two, and fometimes with three great, thicke, long, and hollow guttered leaues, 

 of a wliitilh greene colour, very neare the colour of the Tulipa leafe, hauing fome- 

 times at the end of fome of the leaues, and fometimes apart by it felfe, a whitifn round 

 fmall button, like vnto a fmall bulbe, the like whereof alfo, but greater, doth grow be- 

 tweene the bottome of the leaues and the llalke neare the ground, which being plan- 

 ted when it is ripe, will grow into a roote of the fame kinde : among thefe leaues rifeth 

 vp a round, llrong, and tall llalke, a yard high or better, bare or naked vnto the toppe, 

 where it beareth a great tuft or vmbell of pale purplilh flowers, all of them almoll 

 Handing vpon equall foot-llalkes, or not one much higher then another, confifting of 

 fiue leaues a peece, llriped downe the backe with a fmall pale line, hauing a round 

 head or vmbone with fome threeds about it in the midll : Thefe flowers doe abide a 

 great while blowne before they vade, which fmell not very llrong, like any Onion or 

 Garlicke, but of a faint fmell : and after they are part come the feede, which is blacke, 

 wrapped in white clofe huskes : the roote groweth very great, fometimes bigger then 

 any mans clofed fill, fmelling llrong like Garlicke, whitilh on the outlide, and greene 

 at the toppe, if it be but a while bare from the earth about it. 



2. Moly Iiuiicumjiue Caucafon. The Indian Moly. 



The Indian Moly hath fuch like thicke large leaues, as the Homers Moly hath, but 

 fhorter and broader, in the middle whereof rifeth vp a Ihort weake llalke, almoll flat, 

 not hauing any flowers vpon it, but a head or duller of greenilh fcaly bulbes, inclo- 

 fed at the firll in a large thinne skinne, which being open, euery bulbe Iheweth it felfe, 

 Handing clofe one vnto another vpon his foot-llalke, of the bignefle of an Acorne, 

 which being planted, will grow to bee a plant of his owne kinde : the roote is white 

 and great, couered with a darke coate or skinne, which encreafeth but little vnder 

 ground ; but belides that head, it beareth fmall bulbes aboue the ground, at the bot- 

 tome of the leaues next vnto the llalke, like vnto the former. 



The Place. 



Both thefe doe grow in diuers places of Spaine, Italy, and Greece; for 

 the lall hath been fent out of Turkic among other rootes. Ferrantes Impe- 

 ratus a learned Apothecary of Naples, lent it to diuers of his friends in 

 thefe parts, and hath defcribed it in his naturall hiftory among other 

 plants, printed in the Italian tongue. It grew alfo with lohn Tradefcante at 

 Canterbury, who fent me the head of bulbes to fee, and afterwards a roote, 

 to plant it in my Garden. 



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