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c lbe (jar den of pleajant flowers. 
ielm. In Englilh we call them both Day Lillies , but the name doth potfo 
well agree with the laft, as with the firft, for the caufcs aboue fpecificd. 
ThcVertues. 
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The rootes of Afphodill hath formerly beenc had in great account }l but 
now is vtterly negledted ; yet by reafon of their fharpeneffe they o pen ffad 
clcanfe, and therefore fome haue of late vfed them for the yellow Iaunqifc. 
The Day Lillies haue no phyficall vfe that I know, or haue heard. 
C h a p. X V. 
phtUnghm. Spider-wort. 
T Hefe plants doe fo ncarely refemble thofe that are laft fet forth , that I thinke 
none that knowes them, will doubt, but that they muft follow next vnto them 
being fo like vnto them, and therefore of the faireft of this kinde firft. 
i. PbtUugium Mtbrtgicum. The Sauoyc Spider-wort. 
The Sauoye Spider- wort fpringethvp withfoure or fiue greene leaues , long and 
narrow, yet broader at the bottome, narrower pointed at the end , and a little hollow 
in the middle; among which rifethvp a round ftiffe ftalkc, afoote andahalfchigti 
bearing at the toppe one aboueanother/euen or eight, or moreflowers , cucry one as 
large almoft as the yellow Day Lilly laft deferibed , but much greater then in any o- 
ther of the Spider-worts, of a pure white colour, with fome threeds in the middle 
tipt With yellow, and a fmall forked pointell : after the flowers are paft, the heads or 
fcedeveflels grow almoft three fquare, yet fomewhat round, wherein is contained 
blackiih feede : the rootes are many white, round, thicke, brittle firings, ioyned toge- 
ther at the head , but arc nothing fo long, as the rootes of the other PbaltmoU or S pi- 
der-worts. * r 
2 . PbtUngium mtiut UtlieumMum. The great Italian Spider-wotf. 
This great Spider-wort hath diuers long and narrow leaues fpread vponthe ground 
and not rifingvpasthe former, and not fo broad alfo as the former, but fomewhat 
larger then thofe that follow : the ftalke is bigger, but feldome rifeth vp fo high as the 
next, whereof this is a larger kinde, hauing a long vnbranched ftalke of white flowers 
laid open like ftarres as it hath, but fomewhat greater : the rootes are long and white’ 
■like the next, but fomewhat larger. “ * 
3 . PbxUnium ntn nmofum vulgtn. Vnbranched Spider-wort. 
A he leaues of this Spider-wort doefeeme to bee little bigger or longer then the 
!c - v • 'f grade, but of a more grayifn green colour, rifing immediately from the head 
or -n: of rootes ; among which rife vp one or two ftalkes, fometimes twoorthrec 
foo.c long, befc: toward the toppe with many white Starre-like flowers, which after 
the) arc'paft turne into fmall round heads, containing blacke feede, like vnto the feed 
of the iitdeyellow Afphodill, but leffer : the rootes are long whiteftrings running 
vnde; ground. ° * 
4- phalangium rtmofum. Branched Spider-worr. 
The branched Spider-wort hath his leaues fomewhat broader then the former and 
of a r ■ ore yelb with greene colour: the ftalke hereof is diuerfly branched at the’top 
bearin . many white flowers, like vnto the former, but fmallcr : the feedes and rootes’ 
are like the former in all things. 
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