150 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



delus. In Englifh we call them both Day Lillies, but the name doth not fo 

 well agree with the laft, as with the firft, for the caufes aboue fpecified. 



The Vertues. 



The rootes of Afphodill hath formerly beene had in great account, but 

 now is vtterly neglected ; yet by reafon of their fharpnefle they open and 

 cleanfe, and therefore fome haue of late vfed them for the yellow laundife. 

 The Day Lillies haue no phyficall vfe that I know, or haue heard. 



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CHAP. XV. 

 Phalangium. Spider-wort. 



Hefe plants doe fo nearely refemble thofe that are laft fet forth, that I thinke 

 none that knowes them, will doubt, but that they muft follow next vnto them, 

 being fo like vnto them, and therefore of the faireft of this kinde firft. 



i. Phalangium Allobrogicum. The Sauoye Spider-wort. 



The Sauoye Spider-wort fpringeth vp with foure or fiue greene leaues, long and 

 narrow, yet broader at the bottome, narrower pointed at the end, and a little hollow 

 in the middle ; among which rifeth vp a round ftiffe ftalke, a foote and a halfe high, 

 bearing at the toppe one aboue another, feuen or eight, or more flowers, euery one as 

 large almoft as the yellow Day Lilly laft defcribed, but much greater then in any o- 

 ther of the Spider-worts, of a pure white colour, with fome threeds in the middle, 

 tipt with yellow, and a fmall forked pointell : after the flowers are paft, the heads or 

 feede veflels grow almoft three fquare, yet fomewhat round, wherein is contained 

 blackifh feede : the rootes are many white, round, thicke, brittle firings, ioyned toge- 

 ther at the head, but are nothing fo long, as the rootes of the other Phalangia or Spi- 

 der-worts. 



2. Phalangium maius Italicum album. The great Italian Spider-wort. 



This great Spider-wort hath diuers long and narrow leaues fpread vpon the ground, 

 and not rifing vp as the former, and not fo broad alfo as the former, but fomewhat 

 larger then thofe that follow : the ftalke is bigger, but feldome rifeth vp fo high as the 

 next, whereof this is a larger kinde, hauing a long vnbranched ftalke of white flowers, 

 laid open like ftarres as it hath, but fomewhat greater : the rootes are long and white, 

 like the next, but fomewhat larger. 



3. Phalangium non ramofum vulgare. Vnbranched Spider-wort. 



The leaues of this Spider-wort doe feeme to bee little bigger or longer then the 

 leaues of grafle, but of a more grayifh green colour, riling immediately from the head 

 or tuft of rootes ; among which rife vp one or two ftalkes, fometimes two or three 

 foote long, befet toward the toppe with many white Starre-like flowers, which after 

 they are paft turne into fmall round heads, containing blacke feede, like vnto the feed 

 of the little yellow Afphodill, but lefler : the rootes are long white ftrings, running 

 vnder ground. 



3. Phalangium ramofum. Branched Spider-wort. 



The branched Spider-wort hath his leaues fomewhat broader then the former, and 

 of a more yellowifh greene colour : the ftalke hereof is diuerfly branched at the top, 

 bearing many white flowers, like vnto the former, but fmaller : the feedes and rootes 

 are like the former in all things. 



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