The garden of plea) 'ant Flowers» 
fomewhat higher : the flowers are fewer on thetoppe, but fomewhat larger then of 
the Bee flowers, made co the refcmblance ofa Gnat or great long Flie : the rootes are 
two round bulbes, as the other are. 
The Flie Orchis is like vnto the Lift deferibed , both in leafe and roote, the diffe- 
rence is in the flower, which is neither fo long as the Gnat Satyrion, nor fo great as the 
Bee Orchis, but the neather part of the Flie is blacke, with a lift of afh-colour crofting 
thebacke, withafhewof legges hanging at it : the naturali Fliefeemcth fbtobee in 
loue with it, that you fliallfeldome come in the heate of the day, but you Until finde 
one fitting clofe thereon. 
The Place. a 
Thefe grow inmany places of England, fome in the Woods, as the But- 
terflie,andthe two former handed Saryrions : others on dry bankes and 
barren balkes in Kent, and many Other place*. 
Their fcuerall names are expreffed in their titles, fo much as may fuffict 
for this difeourfe. 
flowers diftilled, as the rootes prepared. 
The rootes boyled in red Wine, and afterwards dryed, are held to bee a 
lingular good remedie againft the bloody Flixe. 
V Ntothe kindcs of Orchides, may fitly be ioyned another plant, which by 
many is reckoned to be a Satjriam , both from the forme of roote and leafe, 
and from the efficacy or vertue corrcfpondent thereunto. And although it 
cannot be the Satj/riwn Etytbranium of DioCcoiidcs, as fome would entitle it, for that 
as I hauefhewedbefore,hisS4^n»»rn/<W#»t»is the Tulipa without all doubt ; yet 
becaufe it differeth very notably , and carricth more beauty and refpcCt in his flower 
then they, I (hall entreate thereof in a Chapter by it felfc, and fetit next vnto them. 
The white Dogs tooth hath for his roote a white bulbe, long and fmall, yet vfually 
greater then either ofthe other that follow, bigger belowethen aboue, withafmall 
peeceadioyningtothebottomeof it, from whence rife Vp in the beginning of the 
Spring , after the Winter frofts are part , two leaues for the mod part (when it will 
flower, or elfebut one, and neuer three together that euer I faw) clofed together when 
they firft come vp out of the ground, which inclofethe flower betweenc them : the 
leaues when they are opened do lay themfelues flat on the ground, or not much aboue 
it, one oppofite vnto the other, with the ftalke and the flower on it {landing betweene 
them, which leaues arc of a whitifh greene colour, long and narrow, yet broader in the 
6. Orchis Myedes. Flie Orchis. 
ThcVertues, 
All the kindes of Orchis ate accounted to procure bodily luft, as well the 
Chap. XXIII. 
Dens Caninus. Dogs tooth Violet. 
DensCanimss flare alba. Dogs tooth Violet with a white flower. 
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