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_Afphodelus minimus albus. 
He leaft white Afphodill hath four or five narrow long green 
leaves,almoft three-fquare, with a {mall ftalk about a foot high, 
without branches , having at the top fome white flowers , like 
thofe of the former, and ftriped on both fides, every leaf with a pur- 
pleline; theroots are many cloggs, fmaller than any of the other, 
Afphodelus minor albus five fiftulofus. 
S&G little hollow white A{phodil hath many long hollow green 
- leaves, growing thick together, from among which come 
up many round ftalks , bearing from the middle to the cop divers 
white ftar-like flowers, with purple lines on the back of them, like 
thofe of the white branched A/phodid , the roots are not in cloggs 
like the former, but {mall white ftrings faftened together at the head; 
this isa tender Plant , and apt to perifhif it be not carefully pre- . 
ferved from Froft and wet in Winter, 
 Afphodelus luteus. minor, five Haftula Regia. 
He [mall yellow Afphodill,or Kings {pear shath many long narrow- 
_ edged green leaves, trailing onthe ground, the ftalk rifeth a 
a fet with {mall long leaves to the middle, where the flow- 
ers begin, being many yellow and ftar-like , the roots are many long 
yellow ftrings which run in the ground and increafe very much; this 
is the moft common,and leaft efteemed of all the 4/phodills. 
They do all Aower in May and Fune, except the two lat; the firt 
of them flowereth in Augu/t and Septensber, and the other in -Fuly, 
They may be taken up, and the roots parted, when the ftalks are 
dry, and prefently fec again, for they would not be kept long out of 
ground, and except the laft white whofe tendernefs 1s expreffed in 
the defcription, they are all hardy and will thrive in any place, moft 
of them bring feeds; whichis not worth the fowing, for that it will 
be many years before they bear flowers , and no variety is to be ex- 
Spies them, and for gaining new Plants, the old increafe fatt 
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“There is another kind of Plant, called the Lilly Afphodill, whereof 
that Sedg, which beareth foon-fading dark yellowith Lilly-like fow- 
ers, commonly called the Day-Zi#y, or the flower for aday, common 
in every Country-Garden, is a kind. There are three other forts 
worthy tobe inferted, two of them being very rare and of much 
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