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from the middle to the top many large white ftar-like flowers, wih 
fome yellownefs in the bottoms of them, with a three-fquare head 
compafied with white threcs, tipt with yellow, the root is thick, 
round and white, almoft as render as that of the firft. 
T here are feme other var'eties, as the great white (biked Star of 
Bethlehem, which is like the former great white, but leffer, and not 
fo aod; the flowers grow in alarger {pike, but much thinner fer on 
the ftalk; there are fome others that bear {mall white flowers, not 
worth retaining, ) ! Nong 
the Arabian fowreth in May, the fecond if Fune, that of Naples 
and the yellow in Apri!, but the -#thiopian not untill Augwft, 
They lofe their fibres, and the roots may be‘taken up: as foon'as 
the ftalks are dry, and kept out of the ground untill: che’ end’ of sep- 
tember, except thofe of the yellow, which will not endure ont of the 
earth but alittle time : that of Arabia, and that of Erhiopia; are both 
tender and will not endure the extremity of our long frofty winters, 
therefore they niuft be planted in boxes, in tich hot fandy-eafth, and 
houfed in winter, the yellow may be fet among other tender roots 
that require to be covered and defended from frofts in winter, the 
other are hardy, and may be fet in any place among other roots thet 
lofe their fibres; — 7 ? | 12 Sy 
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me% 11d carlick yieldeth fome diverfities worthy of enter- 
® tainment, the which are next to be defcribed, and firft 
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Moly _Homericum. 
ap ite great Moly of Homer tifeth up with two or three great, thick, 
4% long hollow leaves, of a whitith green colour, like that of the 
Tulip, with fome {mall bulbs growing fometimes on the ends of the 
leaves,but commonly betwixt them,and on the ftalk neer the ground, 
which being fet will produce a plant of the fame kind; the ftalk ri- 
feth up a yard high, naked, round and fmooth, bearing 2 great um= 
belor tuft, of fmall ftar-like purplifh flowers, upon equal foot-ftalks, _ 
which continue long before they decay, The root is very great,white, 
and of the {mell of Garlick, 
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