266 WILD FLO WEES. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY, LILY CONVALLY, 

 MAY LILY, LADDER TO HEAVEN, OR 

 JACOB'S LADDER, LIRICONFANCIE, OR 

 LIRICUMFANCY, ALSO SOLOMON'S SEAL, 

 AND DAVID'S HARP. 



Convalldria. 



Welsh, Glych Enid. French, Muguet, Gros nraguet, Muguet 

 de Mai, Lis des Vallees. Italian, Mughetto, Giglio dei 

 convalli, Scala cielo. German, Maiblurne, Mai glocken, 



LINNJEAN. NATURAL. 



Hexandria. Similacece. 



Convalldria. 



WILLIAM COLES, the old herbalist, who wrote 

 " Adam and Eve, or the Paradise of Plants," en- 

 larges on the celebrated " Doctrine of Signatures," 

 in which our ingenious forefathers took such delight : 

 and appropriates " to every part of the body (from 

 the crowne of the head, with which I begin, and 

 proceed till I come to the sole of the foot), such 

 herbs and plants, whose grand uses and virtues 

 do most specify cally, and by signature, thereunto 

 belong, not only for strengthening the same, but 

 also for curing the evil effects whereunto they are 

 subjected." The signatures being, as it were, books } 

 out of which men first learned their virtues ; nature 

 having stamped on " divers of them, legible charac- 



