

The Garden of plcajant Flowers. 189 



rootes, yet this much differing from them all. In Englilli it i* vfually called, 

 The Vcluet Flowerdeluce, becaufe the three tailing leaues feeme to be like 

 fmooth blacke Veluet. 



The Vertues. 



Both the rootes and the flowers of the great Flowerdeluces, are of great 

 vfe tor the purging and cleanling of many inward, as well as outward difea- 

 fes, as all Authors in Phylicke doe record. Some haue vfed alfo the greene 

 rootes to cleanfe the skinne, but they had needc to be carefull that vfe them, 

 lert they take more harme then good by the vfe of them. The dryed rootes 

 called Orris (as is faid) is of much vfe to make fweete powders, or other 

 things to perfume apparrell or linnen. The iuice or decoclion of the green 

 roots doth procure both neezing to be fnuft vp into the noftrils, and vomi- 

 ting very llrongly being taken inwardly. 



CHAP. XXI. 

 Glntliolns. Corne Flagge. 



NExt vnto the Flagges or Flowerdeluces, come the Gladioli or Corne Flagges to 

 bee entreated of, for fome refemblance of the leaues with them. There are 

 hereof diuers forts, fome bigger and fome letter, but the chiefeft difference is 

 in the colour of the flowers, and one in the order of the flowers. Of them all in their 

 feuerall orders. 



Gladiolus narbonenjis. The French Corne Flagge. 



The French Corne Flagge rifeth vp with three or foure broad, long, and ftiffe 

 greene leaues, one as it were out of the fide of another, being ioyned together at the 

 bottome, fomewhat like vnto the leaues of Flowerdeluces, but ftiffer, more full of 

 ribbes, and longer then many of them, and (harper pointed : the Italke rifeth vp from 

 among the leaues, bearing them on it as it rifeth, hauing at the toppe diuers huskes, 

 out of which come the flowers one aboue another, all of them turning and opening 

 themfelues one way, which are long and gaping, like vnto the flowers of Foxegloue, 

 a little arched or bunching vp in the middle, of a faire reddifh purple colour, with two 

 white fpots within the mouth thereof, one on each fide, made like vnto a Lozenge 

 that is fquare and long pointed : after the flowers are pall, come vp round heads or 

 feede veltels, wherein is contained reddifh flat feede, like vnto the feece of the Fritil- 

 laria, but thicker and fuller : the roote is fomewhat great, round, flat, and hard, with a 

 (hew as if if were netted, hauing another fhort fpongie one vnder it, which when it 

 hath done bearing, and the llalke dry, that the roote may be taken vp, fticketh clofe to 

 the bottome, but may be eafily taken away, hauing vfually a number of fmall rootes 

 encreafed about it, the leaft whereof will quickly grow, fo that if it be fuffered any long 

 time in a Garden, it will rather choake and pelter it, then be an ornament vnto it. 



Gladiolus Italicus binis Jioribus ordinibus. The Italian Corne Flagge. 



The Italian Corne Flagge is like vnto the French in roote, leafe, and flower, with- 

 out any other difference, then that the roote is fmaller and browner, the leafe and 

 italke of a darker colour, and the flowers (being of a little darker colour like the for- 

 mer, and fomewhat fmaller) rtand out on both fides of the ftalke. 



Gladiolus ByzMtitifius. Corne Flagge of Conltantinople. 



This Corne Flagge that came firfl from Conftantinople, is in all things like vnto 

 the French Corne Flagge lalt defcribed, but that it is larger, both in rootes, leaues, and 



flowers, 





