

The Garden of pleafant Floii\ i c -, 



night, and neuer opencth againe, hut perilheth, and then hangcth downe his head a- 

 gaine; the greene huske of three leaues, doling it lelfe againc into the forme of a head, 

 but greater, as it was before, the middle vmbone growing to bee the feede veflell, 

 wherein is contained I'tnall, hlackiih, long feede : Seldome fhall any man fee aboue 

 one, or two at the molt of thefe flowers blowne open at one time vpon the ftalke, 

 whereby it ftandeth in flowring a long time, before all the heads haue giuen out their 

 flowers. 



The Place. 



This plant groweth in fomc parts of Virginia, and was dcliuered to lohn 

 Tradcfcant. 



The Time. 



It flowreth from the end of May vntill luly, if it haue had greene leaues 

 all the Winter, or otherwife, vntill the Winter checke his luxurioufnefle. 



The Names. 



Vnto this plant I confefle I firft impofed the name, by confidering ducly 

 all the parts thereof, which vntill fome can finde a more proper, I defire 

 may ftill continue, and to call it Ephemerum Virginianum Tradefcanti^ lohn 

 Tradefcante's Spider-wort of Virginia, or Phalangium Ephemerum Virginia- 

 num, The foone fading or Day Spider-wort of Virginia. 



The Vertues. 



There hath not beene any tryall made of the properties fince wee had it, 

 nor doe we know whether the Indians haue any vfe thereof. 



CHAP. XVI. 



Colc/ricam. Medowe Saffron. 



TO returne to the reft of the bulbous and tuberous rooted plants, that remaine 

 to bee entreated of, the Colchica or Medowe Saffrons are firft to bee handled, 

 whereof thefe later dayes haue found out more varieties, then formerly were 

 knowne ; fome flowring in the Spring, but the moft in Autumne, and fome bearing 

 double, but the greateft part lingle flowers : whereof euery one in their order, and 

 firft of our owne Country kindes. 



i . Cole fnc urn Anglic urn album. The white Englifh Medowe Saffron. 



It is common to all the Medowe Saffrons, except that of the Spring, and one other, 

 to beare their flowers alone in Autumne or later, without any green leaues with them, 

 and afterwards in February, their greene leaues : So that I fliall not neede to make ma- 

 nie defcriptions, but to (hew you the differences that coniift in the leaues, and colours 

 of the flowers ; and briefly to paffe (after I haue giuen you a tull defcription of the 

 firft) from one vnto another, touching onely thofe things that are note worthy. The 

 white Englim Medowe Saffron then doth beare in Autumne three or foure flowers at 

 the moft, ftanding feuerally vpon weake foote-ftalkes, a fingers length or more aboue 

 the ground, made of fix white leaues, fomewhat long and narrow, and not fo large as 

 moft of the other kindes, with fome threeds or chiues in the middle, like vnto the 

 Saffron flowers of the Spring, wherein there is no colour of Saffron, or vertue to that 

 effedt : after the flowers are paft and gone, the leaues doe not prefently follow, but 

 the roote rcmaineth in the ground without (hew of leafe aboue ground, moft part of 

 the Winter, and then in February there fpring vp three or foure large and long greene 



U leaues, 



