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Tlx Cjarden of plea/ ant t lowers. 
Skrt 
jltremkt. 
-Cils) hath outers broad whitith greene leaucs , but not very long, among which rifeth 
vpa ft iff; round (hike, at the top whereof breaketh out of agreat round skinny huskc, 
fiueor fix flowers, euery one made fjmewhat of the falhion ofrhcgreat baftard Rulh 
Daffodil 1, but greater, and wholly white ; the fix leaues, being larger and longer 
tUcninthcRufn kmdc,and extending beyond thetrunkc, arctipt withgreene at the 
p fintofeach leafe, anddowne the middle likewifeon thebackfide. Thetrunkeis 
longer, larger, and wider open at the mouth, cut in or indented at the brims or edges, 
and fmall at the botrome, with diuers white threeds in the middle, and is very fwcet * 
vnder the flower is a round greene head, w hich groweth very great , hauing within it, 
when it is ripe, flat and blacke feede : the roote is great and white. 
It is reported, that there are found other forts ; fome that beare yellow flowers, and 
others that beate red: but we haue feene none fuch,and therefore I can fay no more of 
them. 
The Place. 
This kindc groweth neare the Sea fide, both in Spaine,Italy,and France 
within the Straights, andforthemoft part, vponalltheLeuant ftoare and 
Iflands alfo, but will fcldome either flower, or abide with vs in thefe colder 
Countries, as I haUc both feene by thofc that I recciucd from a friend , and 
heard by others. 
The Time. 
It flowrcth in the end of Summer, that is, in Auguftand September 
The Name. 
Diuers doc call it fMcr*ti»m, as the learned of Mompeher , and others 
with the addition of fine Lily, after they had left their old errour, in taking 
it to be Sf jUt, and vfing it fot ScySd, in the Trochifces that go into Androma- 
chusTrcakle. The learned of Valentia in Spaihepas Clufius faith, doe call 
it HemertuUu, thinking it to be a Lilly; and Clufius doth thereupon call it 
HemertuUu f't/eatiMt : but in my opinion , all thefe arc deceiued in this 
plant j for it is neither a Lilly , to haue the name of HemeroctUis giuen vnto 
ir, nor ScylU, nor rmentium, as many doe yet call it : for certainly this is a 
kinde of DafFodillj the forme both of roote, leafe, and flower, doth a flu re 
me that haue feene it, and not Pd/tt/dtium, which (as Diofcorides teftifieth) 
is a kindc of ScjSt, and in his time called Scj/td,v/hh a red roote , and a leafe 
like a Lilly , but longer , and was vfed both with the fame preparation and 
quantity, and forthe fame difeafes that ScjlU was vfed, bur that his force 
was weaker. ’all which doth plainly fliew the errours that many learned men 
haue been conucriant in, and that all may fee how neceflary the knowledge 
of Herbarifme is to the practice of Phyficke 5 And left the rooteof this Sea 
baftard Daffodill bee vfed in the ftead of an wholfome remedy , which (as 
Clufius maketh mention) was deadly to him that did but cut his meate with 
that knife, which had immediately before cut this roote, and done in malice 
by him, that knew the force thereof, to kill his fellow, it working the more 
forceably by the euill attracting quality of the iron. 
The Vertues of Daffodils in generali. 
Howfoeuer Diofcorides and others, doe giue vnto fome of them fpecl- 
all properties, both for inward and outward difeafes, yet know I not any in 
thefe dayes with vs, that apply any of them as a remedy for any griefe, 
whatfoeuer Gerrard or others haue written. 
Chap. 
