The (jar den of pleafant flowers. 
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The Place. 
The firft groweth on the Hils neare vnto Sauoye , from whence diuers 
allured with the beauty of the flower, haue brought it into thefe parts. * 
The fccond came vp in my Garden, from the feede receiued out of Italy. 
The others grow in Spaine, France, &c. 
_ The Time. 
Thevnbranched Spider-wort mod commonly ffowreth before all the 
other , and the branched a moneth after it : the other two about one time 
that is, towards the end of May, and not much after the vnbnn c hed kinde! 
The Names. 
The firft (as I faidbefore) hathbeene taken tobea whircLilliafphodill 
and called Ltliafpbtdelm flore alko ; but Clufius hath more properly entitu- 
led it a Phalangium, and from the place of his originali, gaue him his other 
denomination, and fo is called of moft,as is fet downe in the title. 
The other haue no other names then are exprefled in their titles, but only 
that Cordus calleth them Ltli age 5 and Dodonaeus,/*'^, hi ft. plait, would 
make the branched kinde to bee Melj alterum Pliny , but without any good 
ground. 
The Vertucs. 
The names Phalangium and Phalangites were impofed on thefe plants' 
becaufe they were found effectual!, to cure the poyfon of that kinde of Spi- 
der, called Phalangium^ alfo of Scorpions and other Serpents. Weedoe 
not know, that any Phy fitian hath vfed them to any fuch, or any other pur- 
pofeinourdayes. 
S. Phalangium Epbemerum Virginian um Uannis Trade/cant. 
The foon fading Spider- wort of Virginia, or Tradefcant his Spider- wort. 
This Spider- wort is oflate knowledge, and for it theChriftian world is indebted 
vnto that painfull induftrious fearcher, and louer of all natures varieties, Iohn Trade- 
fcant (fometimes belonging to the right Honourable Lord Robert Earle of Salisbury 
Lord T reafurcr of England in his time , and then vnto the right Honourable the Lord 
Wotton at Canterbury in Kent , and laftly vnto the late Duke of Buckingham) who 
firft receiued it of a friend, that brought it out of Virginia, thinking it to bee the Silke 
Graffe that groweth there, and hath imparted hereof, as of many other things, both to 
me and others • the defeription whereof is as followeth : 
From a ftringie roote , creeping farre vnder ground, and tiling vpagaine in many 
places, fpringeth vp diuers heads of long folded leaues, ofa.grayifh oiier-worne 
greene colour, two orthreeforthemoft part together, and notabouc,compaifing one 
another at the bottome, and abiding greene in many places all the Winter; other- 
where periling , and riling anew in the Spring, which leaues rife vpwith thereat 
round ftalke, being fet thereon at the ioynts, vfually but one ataioynt, broad at the 
bottome where they compafle the ftalke, andfmaller and fmaller to the end : at the 
vpper ioynt, which is the toppe of the ftalke, there ftand two or three fuch like leaues, 
but fmaller, from among which breaketh out a dozen, fixteene, or twenty, or more 
round green heads, hanging downe their heads by little foot-ftalkes, which when the 
flower beginneth to blow open, groweth longer, and ftandeth vprighr , hauing three 
fmall pale greene leaues for a huske,and threeother leaues within them for the flower 
which lay themfelues open flat, of adeepc blew purple colour, hauing an vmboneor 
fmall head in the middle, clofely fet about with fix reddidi, hairy, or feathered threeds 
tipc withycllow pendents : this flower openeth it felfein the day,& Ihutteth vfually at 
night. 
