Chap VU. FLORA 
: Lilinm Album vulgare. 
T% conemon white Lily is{owell known, that it needeth no de- 
{cription; it hatha fcaly root, bigger and yellower than thofe 
of thé red Lily; the ftalk-is tall, the leaves broad and long, of afrefh 
greeh colour, the flowers are fix or eight on one ftalk, in an old plane, 
but fewer in the younger, whichin fafhionare like thofe of the for= 
mer, but turning back the points of the leaves , which are of an ex- 
cellent pure white colour , with a pointell and white chives in thé 
middle, tipt with yellow pendents. 
Lilinm Album Byzxantinum. 
, i white Lily of Conftantinople differeth from the common 
white Lily in that it is fmaller in all the parts thereof, and 
beareth more flowers, ufually twenty, or thirty on one ftalk, which 
many times will come flat and broad, witha hundred or more flowers 
, she 
thereon, like unto thofe of thecommen kinde, but {mallér; 
Lilium Album flore pleno. 
ye double white Lily is in all things like unto the common 
kinde , the flowers. onely. excepted, which in this are ufually 
five or fix on one ftalk, and all’of them conftantly double, confifting 
of many fmall long white leaves , which grow on the foot-ftalks one 
above another, forming a long double Hower, the leaves of them are 
long green, before they open or turn white, and unlefs the feafon 
be very fair, they never openatall, this is efteemed for the rarity 
of the double flowers; more than for any beauty that is in them, 
_ Martdgon. 
T4 mountain Lily or Martagon is next tobe defcribed, whereof 
there is fome diverfity, they are divided into two primary kinds, 
that is chofe that bear broad green leaves in rundles about the ftalks 
at diftances, the which are called mountain Lilies; and others, that 
bear narrow long green leaves ,» {parfedly feton the ftalks, in fome 
bigger, and in others {mallery out of which we will colle@ the belt; 
and defcribe them in order). © SRiDio ereTS | 
> Martagon Imperiale five Lilium montanum majus. 
He Martagon Imperial » as all the Martagons have, afealy 
-#* epaleyellow root; the ftalk rifecha yard high, of a brewnith 
colour;. befet at certain diftances with Caudles of broad green leaves, 
and «naked betwixt ,..at the top of the ftalkcome forth, inan old 
plant, fourfcore ora hundred flowers, thick fet together » each on 
a feveral foot-ftalk, hanging down their heads and turning the leaves 
hack again, as all Martagons do 5 ne are thick and flefhy, 4 2 
so 2 pale 
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