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fome dry, but not hot or windy place , and then plant it in the ground voder a South 
wall, or fuch like defended place , which will fpnng and no doubt profar well 
there in regard the greatcft and deepeft frofts are pad after February, fo that feldome 
any great frofts come after, topiercefodeepcastherooteistobe fet, or thereby to 
doe any great harme to it in fuch a place. 
••/ft The Placei 
This hath be^n often fentoutofTurkie, and likewife out of Italy ; I had 
like wife two rootes Cent mce out of Spainc by Guillaume Boel before re- 
membred, which (as heefaid)hee gathered there, but they profpered not 
with me, for wailt of the knowledge of the former rule.lt may be likely that 
Arabia is the place, from whence they of Conftantinople receiue it. 
• •* _ "r;/ . wQTien , no:' >* 'firry.* ■ r 
< ’ The Time. • • < ' 
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It flowreth in Way, if it be of the firft yearesbnngmg ; or in Iunc , if it 
q haue been ordered after the manner before fet do wne. vftoi ; 
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The Names. 
I t hath been fentout of Italy by the name of Lilium Alexandrinum , The 
Lilly of Alexandria, but it hath no affinity with any Lilly. Otherscallic 
' Hyacinthus W/fw ; andthcItajluns, Ucmthodel pater a .-but, it/sno Ia- 
, cinch neither, althpugh the flowers be likefpmc of them. Some alfo would 
referre it to a NarcyJJus or Daffodill , and it, doth as little agree wit hit , as 
With a Lilly, although his flowersi/ilargancireandwytcneirc refemblea 
Daffodill. Clufins hath molt fitly referred it to the ftockc or kindred of 
OrnlthoraU , or Starres of Bethlehem^as wee call themin Englijh, and 
from the Turkifh name, Zumhul /*r^/,entituled It Ornithegalum Arabicum, 
although Zumbul, as I haue be fort declared; is with them, a Iacinth, wee 
may call it in Englifh, The Arab ianr Star/e-flower, or S tarre of Bethlehem, 
or the great Star^re-flower of Arabia. :Xc 0 ; lij.nol. : -.-vli 
0 ;Oob2-i ««noli » ladaal V^bdlad ghntfadjfcoioOT ?Dud;?lib 
1 . Ornithegalum maximum album. . n't 
: The greatcft white Starre- flower, or Starre of Bethlehem I 
This great Starre-flower hath many f«ire,broad, long, and very frefli grceh leaues, 
rifing vp very early, and are greater, longer, and greener then the lcaues of apy Ori- 
ental! Iacinth, which doc abidegreene, from the beginning or middle of Iantvary , or 
before fometimes , vntill the end of May, at which tiliiethey begin to fadcj -and the 
ftalke with the head of flowers beginneth to rife , fo that it will haue either few or no 
lcaues at all, when the flowers are blowne xtRe ftalke is ftrong, round, and firrae,rifing 
two footehigh or more,bearingatthetoppeagreatbu(h of flowers, feeming at the firft 
to be a great greerte earc of come, for it is made fpike-fafhion, which when the flowers 
are blowne, doth rife to be very high, flendcr orfmallattheheadaboue, and broad 
Ipreadi and buflwng below , fo rhat it is long in flowring; for they flower below firft, 
andfovpwards by degrees : thefe flowers are fnow white, without any line on the 
backfide, and is therein like vnto the former, as alfo in whitefiefle, but nothing fo 
large, withawhite vmbone orheadinthe middle, befet With rtiafly white threeds, 
tipt with yellow : the feede is bheke and round, contained in three fquare heads : the 
roote is great, thicke, and fhort, and fomewhat yellowifhonthcoutfide, withaflat 
bottome, both like the former, and the next that followeth. 
2 . Ornithegalum miiits fpicatum album. 
The great whitefpiked Starre-flower. 
This fpiked Starre- flower in his growing, is fomewhat like vnto the Iaft described. 
