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LFULOOR A \ Book I. 
Phalangium non ramofum valgare. 
T He common unbranched Spider-wort hath {mall leaves like grafts, 
but of a whitith green colour, from among whichrifeth one, two 
or more ftalksalmoft two foot high, bearing at the top many {mall 
white ftar-like flowers; the rootsare many long white ftrings, like 
thofe of the laft defcribed, but {maller, 
Phalangium Virginianum. 
T% Virginian Spidér-wort hatha ftringy root, and broad grafs- 
® like leaves, the ftalk rifeth up in joynts, withfome fhort leaves 
at the topthereof; out ofa tuit of thofe green leaves, come forth 
the flowers, which are many, hanging down their heads at the firft, 
and turning up as they come to. blow, each flower containing three 
leaves, layed flat, of a blew colour, with red threds in the middle, tipt 
with yellow pendents : they open commonly one after another, and 
may be called a flower for a day, for that they fhut at night,and never 
open again, Itis a great increafer, and thereby grown common in 
almoft every garden; this was firft brought unto us out of Virginia, 
nce we have received thence feveral other varieties, differing chiefly 
in the colour of the flowers, for befides the blew defcribed, we haye 
_ another that beareth bigger and fairer blew flowers, two that have 
red flowers, a bigger and leffer, and one with fnow-white flowers ; 
in fome years the flowers of the greater red will come double, 
The Lilly Afphodills flower inthe end ‘of May, or beginning of 
des and the Spider-wort about thefame time, the common un- 
‘branched kind is the firft, and the branched the laft, the two beft 
Spider-worts, that of Savoy, and the stalian, flower together about 
the end of May, the Virgiuzans a moneth later, 
Thefe plants are all hardy, and will liveand thrive in almoft any 
foyl, but beft in that which is moift; the time to take them up and 
tran{plant them, is in Ayguft, the roots may be parted as they grow 
im feveral heads, and fet again, where they may ftand two or three 
‘years unremoved : they bear feeds, from whence plants of the beft 
ind may betaifed, thatis of the white and blufh Lily A|phodills, 
Savoy, and Italian Spider-worts ; it will be four or five years trom the 
fowing, before they come to bear flowers, yet it is worth the labour. 
and attendance, for that feeds of the two Lilly A/phodills, may be ob-| 
tained from places far diftant better than plants, Having done with 
thefe flower-bearing plants, before we pafs to the reft of the Bulbous 
roots, the varieties ot Pzonies are to be handled, which fhall be the 
fubject of our next difcourfe, 2 atte | 
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