• 1 be Cjarden of pleafant Flowers, 
rootes, yet this much differing from them all. In Engliih it is vfually called 
The VeluctFlo\verdeluce,becaufethe three falling leaues feeme to be like 
fmooth blacks Veluet. 
TheVertues. 
iSp 
Both the rootes and the flowers of the great Flowerdeluccs , are of great 
vfc for the purging and cleaning of many inward, as well as outward dilea- 
fes, as all Authors in Phy ficke doe record. Some haue vied alfo the greene 
rootes to cleanfethe skinne, but they hadneedeto be carefull that vfe them , 
leftthey takemoreharmerhengoodbythevfeofthern. Thedryed rootes 
called Orris (as is Paid) is of much vie to make fweete powders , or other 
things to perfume apparrell or linnen. The iuice or decoftion of the green 
roots doth procureboth neezing to be fnuft vp into the noftrils,and vomi- 
ting very ftrongly being taken inwardly. 
.-ji; wjnom r>v»of; .i Lns^smidf ihui as 
Chap.^XT. 
Gladiolus. Corne Flagge. 
N Ext vnto the Flagges or Flowerdeluces, come the Gladioli or Corne Flaggesto 
bee entreated of, forfomerefemblanceof the leaues with them. There arc 
hereof diuers forts, fome bigger and fome leffer, but the chiefeft difference is 
in the colour of the flowers, and one in the order of the flowers. Of them all in their 
feuerall orders. 
Gladiolus Narbonenfis. The French Corne Flagge. 
The French Corne Flagge rifeth vp with three or foure broad , long , and ftiffc 
greene leaues, one as it were out of the fide of another, being ioyned together at the 
bottome, fomdwhat like vnto the leaues of Flowerdeluces , butftiffer, morefullof 
ribbes, and longerthen many of them, and lharper pointed : the ftalke rifeth vp from 
among the leaues, bearing them on it as it rifeth, hauingatthe toppe diuers huskes, 
out of which come the flowers one aboue another, all of them turning and opening 
themfelues one way, which are long and gaping , like vnto the flowers of Foxegloue, 
a little arched or bunching vp in the middle, of a faire reddilh purple colour, with two 
white fpots within the mouth thereof , one on each fide, made like vnto a Lozenge 
that is fquare and long pointed .-after the flowers are part, come vp round heads or 
feedeveffels, wherein is contained reddilh flat feede, like vnto thefeedeof the Fritil- 
laria,but thicker and fuller : theroote is fomewhat great, round, flat, and hard, with a 
fhewasifit were netted, hauing another fhortfpongieonevndcrlt, which whenit 
hath done bearing, and the llalke dry , that the roore may be taken vp, fticketh clofe to 
the bottome, but may be eafily taken away, hauing vfually a number of fmall rootes 
encreafed about it, the leaft whereof will quickly grow,fo that if it be fuffered any long 
time in a Garden, it will rather choake and pefter it, then be an ornament vnto it. 
Gladiolus Italicm binis floribus ordinibus, The Italian Corne Flagge. 
The Italian Corne Flagge is like vnto the French in roote , leafe, and flotver, with- 
out any other difference, thenthatthe roote isfmallerand browner, the leafeand 
ftalke of a darker colour, and the flowers (being of a little darker colour like the for- 
mer, and fomewhat fmaller) ftand out on both fides of the llalke. 
Gladiolus "Byzantinus. Corne Flagge of Conftantinople. 
This Corne Flaggethat came firft from Conftantinople, is in all things like vnto 
the French Corne Flagge laft deferibed, but that it is larger, both in rootes, leaues, and 
flowers, 
