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Lejjer White H atcr Lilly. 
The DefcriptionS. 
IV. The fir ft, or Greater White Water Lilly, has 
n great, thicks rowuL long, tuber pus Root. fpungy or 
Icofe , and with many Knobs thereon, tike Eyes , and 
whitifh within : from whence proceed very large and 
very round , thick , dank , green J^afes^ lying upon 
the mkee, (like aHto thoje of Lara fcgvptia, as Di- 
ofcorides fays , and that very truly) Ji/Jlained by long 
and thick Eoot-Jjalks : Irom the middle alio, and ci- 
ther places of this Root, rife other the like thick 
and great Stalks,, fuihining one large and white 
Flower therein; green on the outfide, but exceed- 
ing white on the infide, white as pure Snow, con- 
lilting of feveral Rows' of long, and fomewhat thick 
and narrow Leaves, finaller and thinner, the more 
inward they grOvy, encompaifing a Head within, 
with many yellow Threads or Thrums in the mid- 
dle ^ where after they are palt, Ita^el round Poppy 
like Heads, full of broad, oily, bitter, blackifli and 
glittering Seed. 
V. TbeJeconJ , 'or Lelfer White Water Lilly. It 
has a flng'fe Root, iiitbfome few Fibres adjoined 
thereto from whence rife up many long' round tool - 
Jlalks of Leaves , which Leaves float alfo upon the 
Water , as the other does y being fair, qj a light green 
Color, broad, fmooth, f oft, -round, and Buckler-life in 
form : and from the fame Root rife up alfo feveral 
long, round, fmooth, fofr, lightifli green Stalks 
( but lefter than thole of the Greater Lilly) of 
Flowers, beating at their tops fine final! white 
VI. Parkinfon fays, That this Lcfler "Water Lilly 
differs not from the former, or Greater, but in the 
Small nets both. of Root and Leaf, and in the. Single- 
ttefs of the Flower, which conlifts but of five fmall 
pointed Leaves, fpread open and laid abroad, ( as 
you may fee by one of the Figures ) with yellow 
Threads 
