OapeXXVIL  ~ FLORA 
Helleborine minor flore purpurante. 
Te [all parplifh Hellebor is like the laft defcribed, but that the 
leaves are marroweér, the flowers fmaller, and of purplith bluth- 
colour, 
_ The true black Hellebor flowreth about Chriftmas, the two white 
Hellebors in Fune, the Ladies Slipper, and the white Helleborine in 
the end of April or beginning of May, and that wich the purplith fow- 
er about the beginning of Fuze, 
~ Theroots of the black and white Hefebor aré hardy, and abide 
long unremoved, therefore fit to be at firft fet in good ground and 
where they may ftand: the Hedeborines are found wild in fome parts 
of York and Lancafbire, and therefore do not require too richa foil. 
Ireceived all the varieties before mentioned from that honeft Gen- 
ear his houfe in Lancafbire , there ig 
another {mall Plant which may properly be mentioned in this place, 
of which a word or two before we conclude this Chapter, 
Lilium Convallinm flore albo. 
T He white Convall Lily, May Lily, or the Lily of the valley, for 
by all thefe names it is called, hath a fmall ftringy root, which 
riinneth in the ground, and cometh up in divers places, with three or 
four long and broad leaves, fomthing refembling thofe of the leffer 
Helleborine, from whence rifeth up a {mall naked ftalk, bearing at the 
top one above another, hanging all on one fide, many little white 
flowers, like little Bottles with open mouths; which are ef a comfor- 
table fweet fcent; ~ ‘ Z 
Lilium Convallium flore rubente. 
"He Conval Lily with a reddifh flower differs only from the for- 
mer, in that the flowers are of a fine pale red colour, and there- 
fore more efteemed than the other whichis found growing wild ini 
divers places in the North, : 
They both flower in May, and will increafe too faft; but bear beft 
in the thade, and ina mean foil; Inever read or heard of any other 
plant called the L#ly of the wally, and if this be that mentioned in the 
Canticles, I am the Rofe of Sharon and the Lily of the valley, pet- 
haps it was by the R ofe to typity lovelyMajefty,and by this fmall low 
flower, virtuous Humility, it having an efpecial property to help: 
weak memories, raife A 
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the pains of the Gout; 
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