Chap. 4^2. £ nglijh ‘Herbs. 
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O’ in bonis ferebant ad Coronamenta , vide Plin. 
lib. 21. cap. Io. ill Latine it is called, Hemerocallis , 
and it is doubtlefs the true Plant which ought to 
be called by that Name ; alio Lilium non bulbofum , 
Liliafpbodelus , Li/iagc , and Liliafirum : in Englifh , 
The Bn(lard Lilly , or Day Id/Ty. 
II. The Kinds. Authors make mention but of 
four forts of this LiV/y, viz. I . l.iliago Phtenicea , 
Liliafirum Phteniceum, Liliafpbodelus Phccniceus, 
Lilium non bulbofum puniccum , Hemcrocalhs , ab 
wipt dies , O pulchritude, a fibrin fugacitale, 
quia urn tantum die pulchr'ttudinem fuam luetur ; 
i. e. y?ar, ittro die vigens ; The Gold-red Baftard 
Lilly, or Gold-red Day Lilly. 2. Liliafirum lutc- 
um , Lilium non bulbofum luteum , Liliafpbodelus 
Intern , The Yellow Baftard Lilly, or Yellow Day 
Lilly. 5. Liliafphodelus flore albo , The Lilly Af- 
phodil with a white Flower. 4. Liliafpbodelus fore 
Carned , The Lilly Afphodil with a Blulh-colored 
Flower. 
The Defcriptions. 
III. The fu jl , or Gold-red Baftard Lilly, or Gold- 
red Day Lilly. It has for its Root many thick and 
long knobbed Strings , ///’£' rwr/u foe Small yellow 
Afphodil-Roa/r, A/rr fomewbat greater, running un- 
der Ground in like fort , and J booting out young 
heads round about. From this Root ipring up di- 
vers broad and long frefti green Leaves, folded at 
the firlt, as it were double, which after open and 
remain a little hollow in the middle ; among which 
rifes up a naked Stalk, three Feet high, bearing at 
the top many Flowers, one not much diftant from 
another, and flowering one after another, not ha- 
ving commonly above one Flower blown open in a 
Day, and that but for a Day, not lulling longer, | 
but doling at Night, and not opening again, where- 
upon it obtained the Englifh Name of Day Lilly, or 
Lilly for a Day. Thefe Flowers are almolt as large 
as the Flowers of the IVhite Lilly, and made after' 
the fame falhion, hut of a fair Gold-red or Orange- 
tawny Color. Seed is very feldom feen to follow) 
thefe Flowers, for they feem the next Day after' 
they have flowered, (except the Seafon is very fair 
and dry) to be fo rotten, as if they had been laid 
in Wet to rot them. 
IV. Nota. Gerard fays, That this Plant brings 
forth its Bud in the Morning, which at Noon is full 
blown or fpread abroad, and the fame Day in the 
Evening it Ihuts it felf ; and in a Ihort time after 
becomes as rotten and ttinking as if it had been 
trodden in a Dunghil a Month together, in foul and 
rainy Weather ; which is the Caufe that the Seed 
feldom follows, as in the other Kind, fcarcely ever 
bringing forth any at all. 
V. The fccond , or Yellow Baftard Lilly, or Yel- 
low Day Lilly. It has a Root conjijling of many 
Knobs or tuberous Buncbings' out, proceeding from 
one Head, like tbofe of the White Afphodil or Peo- 
ny. From this Root proceed long flaggy Leaves, 
chamfered or channelled, hollow in the midft like 
a Gutter ; among which rifes up a naked or bare 
Stalk, about three Feet high, branched towards the 
top, with feveral brittle Arms or Branches, on 
which do grow many fair Flowers, like unto' thofe 
of the Common White Lilly in Shape and Proporti- 
on, and of d fliining yellow Color ; which being 
paft, three-cornered Cods or Husks fucceed, full of 
black Ihining Seed, like thofe of Peony. 
VI. Mr. Rea, in his f lora , Cap. 14. fays That 
this Yellow Day Lilly, or Lilly Afphodil,' rifes up 
with many long fedgy Leaves , out of the middle of 
which comes up a naked Stalk, bearing at the top 
thereof four or five fmall Lilly - like yellow Flowers, 
blowing one after another, liky the firft Gold-red 
Day Lilly, but continuing many Days before they 
fade. The Leaves die to the Ground before Winter, 
and the Roots are many, long, yellow Strings, very 
much increafing. 
VII. The third, or Lilly Afphodil with white 
Flowers. This Lilly is in all the parts thereof, as 
Roots, Leaves, Stalk , Cods, Seed, and in its mannir 
of Growing, like the former, faving, that the Leaves 
are of a frelher green Color, and the Flowers of a 
Snow white, like unto the Savoy Spidcrwort, but 
that the Stalk is higher, and the Flowers larger. 
VIII. The fourth, tv Lilly Afphodil with a Blulh 
or Flefh colored Flower. This is very like to the 
White in every of its parts , and in the manner of 
its Growing : thegreateft Difference is in the Flow- 
ers, which in this are of a fine bright Blufli or Flefh 
Color. 
IX. The Places. They are all of them of Ger- 
man Production, and are found in many Gardens in 
Germany ; from whence they have been brought in- 
to our Gardens in England, where they thrive very 
well, if the Earth or Soil is moift. 
X. The Times. They all of. them flower about 
the latter end of May, and almoft throughout all 
June, as the Seafon proves. 
X I . The Vitalities, Specif cation. Preparations and 
Virtues of the Lilly Afphodil or Day Lilly, are faid 
to be the fame with Our Common Afphodil, which 
you may fee at large in Cap.^.SeS.q. ad 22. of the 
lame Chapter aforegoing. Some make a Cataplafin 
of them, and apply in the Cafes following. 
XII. The Cqtaplafm. The Roots and Leaves beat- 
en in a Mortar to a Pultice, and applied to hot 
Swellings in Womens Breafts, in their Lying-in, 
cools, difeufles and eafes the Pain : applied alio to 
Inflammations of the Eyes, it cools and takes them 
away. Applied to Burnings and Scaldings, it 
draws forth the Fire, and heals them. If it Is made 
into a Peflary with a little Honey and W00II, and 
put up the Womb, it provokes the Terms, bringing 
forth both Water and Blood. 
CHAP. CCCCXLII. 
Of LILLY Water White. 
T HE Karnes. This Plant is called in Greek, 
Nvubaut ; in Latine , Kymphsa, quod loca a- 
quofa amet , as Diofcorides faith ; it is alfo called 
by Apulems , Mater Her cu! ana. Alga pa/ujiris. Pa- 
paver paluftre, Clavt/s Veneris, Digitus Veneris ; and 
Marcellas, an old Writer, faith, that it was called 
Clave Hacuhs : in the Shops, Kenuphar. The A- 
rabians call it, Kilafur , and Kiufar : and we in 
Englifh , Water Lilly. 
II. Ibe Kinds. There are two principal Kinds 
“W/"’ 1 . thtutaU At™», Kymphaa alba. The 
White Water Lilly. 2. Xvm- 
pbua lutea. The Yellow Water Lilly : of which we 
fhall fpeak in the next Chapter. 
III. The Kinds of the White Water Lilly. Of 
this there are two forts, viz. 1. Nymphxa alba ma- 
jor, The greater White Water Lilly. 2. Kympbxa 
alba minor. The leffer White Water Lilly. ? . To 
thefe we may add a third, which is an Exotick,and 
not to be found in our Country $ but I have been 
told by a Gentleman well skilled in Botany , that he 
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