152 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Place. 



The firft groweth on the Hils neare vnto Sauoye, from whence diuers, 

 allured with the beauty of the flower, haue brought it into thefe parts. 



The fecond came vp in my Garden, from the feede receiued out of Italy. 

 The others grow in Spaine, France, Sec. 



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The Time. 



The vnbranched Spider-wort moft commonly flowreth before all the 

 other, and the branched a moneth after it : the other two about one time, 

 that is, towards the end of May, and not much after the vnbranched kinde. 



The Names. 



The firft (as I faid before) hath beene taken to be a white Lilliafphodill, 

 and called Liliafphodelus JJore albo ; but Clufius hath more properly entitu- 

 led it a Phalangium, and from the place of his originall, gaue him his other 

 denomination, and fo is called of moft, as is fet downe in the title. 



The other haue no other names then are exprefled in their titles, but only 

 that Cordus calleth them Liliago ; and Dodonasus, lib. 4. hijt. plant, would 

 make the branched kinde to bee Moly alterum P/imj, but without any good 

 ground. 



The Vertues. 



The names Phalangium and Phalangites were impofed on thefe plants, 

 becaufe they were found effectual, to cure the poyfon of that kinde of Spi- 

 der, called Phalangium, as alfo of Scorpions and other Serpents. Wee doe 

 not know, that any Phyfitian hath vfed them to any fuch, or any other pur- 

 pofe in our dayes. 



5. Phalangium Ephemerum Virginianum loannis "Trade fcant. 

 The foon fading Spider-wort of Virginia, or Tradefcant his Spider-wort. 



This Spider-wort is of late knowledge, and for it the Chriftian world is indebted 

 vnto that painfull induftrious fearcher, and louer of all natures varieties, lohn Trade- 

 fcant (fometimes belonging to the right Honourable Lord Robert Earle of Salisbury, 

 Lord Treafurer of England in his time, and then vnto the right Honourable the Lord 

 Wotton at Canterbury in Kent, and laftly vnto the late Duke of Buckingham) who 

 firft receiued it of a friend, that brought it out of Virginia, thinking it to bee the Silke 

 Grafle that groweth there, and hath imparted hereof, as of many other things, both to 

 me and others ; the defcription whereof is as followeth : 



From a ftringie roote, creeping farre vnder ground, and rifing vp againe in many 

 places, fpringeth vp diuers heads of long folded leaues, of a grayim ouer-worne 

 greene colour, two or three for the moft part together, and not aboue, compafling one 

 another at the bottome, and abiding greene in many places all the Winter ; other- 

 where perifhing, and rifing anew in the Spring, which leaues rife vp with the great 

 round ftalke, being fet thereon at the ioynts, vfually but one at a ioynt, broad at the 

 bottome where they cornpafTe the ftalke, and fmaller and fmaller to the end : at the 

 vpper ioynt, which is the toppe of the ftalke, there ftand two or three fuch like leaues, 

 but fmaller, from among which breaketh out a dozen, fixteene, or twenty, or more 

 round green heads, hanging downe their heads by little foot-ftalkes, which when the 

 flower beginneth to blow open, groweth longer, and ftandeth vpright, hauing three 

 fmall pale greene leaues for a huske, and three other leaues within them for the flower, 

 which lay themfelues open flat, of a deepe blew purple colour, hauing an vmbone or 

 fmall head in the middle, clofely fet about with fix reddifh, hairy, or feathered threeds, 

 tipt with yellow pendents : this flower openeth it felfe in the day, & fhutteth vfually at 



night, 



