146 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



The Place. 



The places of thefe Molyes, are for the moft part exprefled in their ti- 

 tles, or in their defcriptions. 



The Time. 



The time is fet downe, for the moft part to bee in lune and luly, the reft 

 later. 



The Names. 



To make further relation of names then are exprefled in their titles, were 

 needlefle ; let thefe therefore fuffice. 



The Vertues. 



All thefe forts of Molyes are fmall kindes of wilde Garlicke, and are to 

 be vfed for the fame purpofes that the great Garden Garlicke is, although 

 much weaker in their effecTs. For any other efpeciall property is in any of 

 thefe, more than to furnifh a Garden of variety, I haue not heard at all. 



And thus much may fuffice of thefe kindes for our Garden, referuing manie others 

 that might be fpoken of, to a generall worke, or to my Garden of Simples, which as 

 God fhall enable me, and time giue leaue, may mew it felfe to the world, to abide the 

 iudicious and criticke cenfures of all. 



CHAP. XI 1 1 1. 



Afphodelus. The Afphodill. 



THere remaine fome other flowers, like vnto the laft defcribed, to be fpecified, 

 which although they haue no bulbous rootes, yet I thinke them fitteft to bee 

 here mentioned, that fo I may ioyne thofe of neereft fimilitude together, vn- 

 till I haue finifhed the reft that are to follow. 



i . Afphodelus maior albus ramofus. The great white branched Afphodill. 



The great white Afphodill hath many long, and narrow, hollow three fquare 

 leaues, fharpe pointed, lying vpon the ground round about the roote : the ftalke is 

 fmooth, round, and naked without leaues, which rifeth from the midft of them, di- 

 uided at the toppe into diuers branches, if the plant bee of any long continuance, or 

 elfe but into two or three fmall branches, from the fides of the maine great one, 

 whereon doe ftand many large flowers Starre-fafhion, made of fix leaues a peece, 

 whitifh on the infide, and ftraked with a purplifh line downe the backfide of euery 

 leafe, hauing in the middle of the flowers fome fmall yellow threeds : the feede is 

 blacke, and three fquare, greater then the feede of Bucke wheate, contained in 

 roundifh heads, which open into three parts : the roote is compofed of many tube- 

 rous long clogges, thickeft in the middle, and fmaller at both ends, fattened together 

 at the head, of a darke grayifh colour on the outfide, and yellow within. 



2. Afphodelus albus non ramofus. The white vnbranched Afphodill. 



The vnbranched Afphodill is like vnto the former, both in leaues and flowers, but 

 that the flowers of this are whiter, and without any line or ftrake on the backe fide, 



and 



