148 c / he garden of f leaf ant Flowers. 
thisdifcourfe. For to (hew you that the Gretkes doe call theftalkeof the 
great Afphodill a and the Latines Albucum , or what elfe belongeth 
to them, is fitter for another worke, vnto which I leaue them. 
T he baftard A fphodils fhould follow next in place, if this worke were fit for them ; 
but becaufe I haue tyed my felfe to expreffc onely thofe flowers and plants , that for 
their beauty, or fent, or both, doe furnifh a Garden of Pleafure , and they haue none, I 
leaue them to a generali Hiftory of plants, or that Garden of Simples before fpoken of, 
and will deferibe the Lilly Afphodils, and the thdtngiu or Spider- worts, which are 
remaining of thofe, that ioyne in name or fafhion,and are to be here inferted, before I 
pafle to the reft of the bulbous rootes. 
1 . Lilhfthoiclm phunicctu. The gold red Day Lilly. 
Becaufe the rootes of this and the next , doe fo nearely agree'with the two laft reci- 
ted Afphodils, I hauefetthem in this place, although fome doe place them next after 
the Lillies, becaufe their flowers doe come neareft in forme vnto Lillies 3 but whether 
you will call them Afphodils with Lilly flowers , as I thinke it fitreft , or Lillies with 
Afphodill rootes, or Lillies without bulbous rootes, as others doc, I will not contend. 
The red Day Lilly hath diuers broad and long frefh greene leaues , folded at the 
firft as it were double, which after open, and remaine a little hollow in the middle- 
among which rifeth vp a naked ftalke three foot high, bearing at the toppe many flow- 
ers, one not much diftant from another , and flowring one after another , not hauing 
lightly aboue one flower blown open in a day, & that but for a day, not lafting longer, 
but clofirig at night, and not opening againe ; whereupon it had his Englifh name, The 
Lilly for a day : tliefe flowers arc almoft as large as the flowers of the white Lilly, and 
made after the fame faihion, but of a fairc gold red, or Orange tawny colour. I could 
neuer obferue any feede to follow thefe flowers; for they feeme the next day after they 
haue flowred, (except the time be faire and dry) to bee fo rotten, as if they had lyen in 
wetto rottethem, whereby I thinke no feede can follow : the rootes are many thick? 
and long yellow knobbed firings , like vnto the final! yellow Afphodill rootes , but 
fomewhat greater, running vndcr ground in like fort, and /hooting young heads round 
about. 
2. LilU/phodclm lutem. Theycllow Day Lilly. 
I (hall not neede to make a repetition of the defeription of this Day Lilly , hauing 
giuen you one fo amply before, becaufe this doth agree thereunto fo nearely , as that 
it might feeme the fame; thefe differences onely it hath, the leaues are not fully fo 
large, nor the flower fo great or fpread open, andthecolourthereofisof afaireyel- 
low wholly, and very fweet, which abideth blowne many daies before itfade,and hath 
giuen blacke round feede, growing in round heads, like the heads of the fmall yellow 
Afphodill, but not fo great. 
Clufius hath fet downe, that it was reported, that there fhould be another Liliafpho- 
dm with a white flower, but we can heare of none fuch as yet ; but I ratherthinke, (hat 
they that gaue that report might bemiftaken, in thinking the SauoycSpider-wort to 
be awhiteLiliafphodill, which indeedc is fo like, that one not well experienced , or 
not well regarding it, may foonc take one for another. 
The Place. 
Their originali is many moift places in Germany. 
The Time. , 
They flower in May andlune. 
The Names. 
They are called by fome LilUgo, and Lilium non bullofum, and LilUJpho- 
r. A delm, 
