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leaves , thick, fat, full of juice, and of a very green 
color , with a White (freak down the middle of each 
J.eaf-, from among which rife up [mall naked 
Stalks, at the Tops of which grow flowers confin- 
ing of fix little Leaves, griped on the backfide with 
Lines of Green, the infides being Milk, white. 
Thefe flowers open tbemf elves at the rifling of the 
Sun, and fhut again at Sun fetting ■, for which 
this Plant has been called by fome Bulbus Solfe- 
quius. The dowers being pafr, the Seed follows, 
enclofcd in Triangular husks. This Plant is fo 
common and fo well known in all Countries and 
Places, that it was almoji necdlefs to have de- 
fer i bed it, faving that the order and cottrfe of Our 
Hiflory require it. 
Star-flower Tells w. 
IV. The fecc;.d, or Yellow Star-flower. It 
has a Cloven Bulbous Roo/ 1 round, whitifh, and 
fome what clear, and very apt to perifb, if it be 
any little while kept dry out of the ground, as has 
been found by Experience. It rifes up at flrfi 
with one long round greenifh Leaf, which opens 
it felf fomewhat above the Ground , and gives out 
another fnall Leaf, leffer and fhorter than the 
firjl : afterwards the Stalk rifes from thence al- 
fo, being 4 or 5 inches high , bearing at the Top 
three or four fmall green Leaves, from whence a- 
mong them come forth 4 or 5 fmall yellow Starlike 
flowers, with a greenifh Line or Streak down the 
Back of every Leaf, and fome fmall reddifh yellow 
Tbreds in the middle, which feldom yield any Seed. 
Gerard fays, that the flowers of this are on the 
back fide of a pale yellow, ftrlped with Green, and 
on the inflde of a bright Jhining yellow color, 
with Saffron colored Tbreds in their middles , and 
that the Seed is contained in Triangular Veffels. 
V. The third , or Great Arabian Star-flower. 
Its Root is great and white with a flat bottom, af- 
ter its fibres are gone, which it yearly loofes : it 
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IS very impatient of Prod, and will not abide zaw 
us unlefs carefully preferved and defended again/} 
the cold of Winter. And tho'fomc times it abides the 
It inter, yet it oft c ns lyes without f fringing forth 
into a Blade, or any thing elfe for a whole year, 
and then perijhes -, or if it does jpring up, yet ma- 
ny times it does not bear • but mofl after their 
bjt bearing do decay and periflj. Let therefore 
the Root be either Planted in a large Pet or Tub 
of bLarth and Houfed all the Winter, that fo it 
may be defended from the Frofls. Or elfe, (which 
is the eafler way) let the Root be taken out of the 
Ground every year, from September, after the 
Leaves and Stalks are pafl, until February, and laid 
in fome dry , but not hot or windy place, and then 
planted in the Ground under a South Wall, or 
fuch like defended places, which will then fpring 
up and pre/per well , for that the greateft end hard- 
efi Frofts are generally pafl after that tine , Sic. 
It fprwgs up with many broad and tong green 
Leaves , very Hie unto the Leaves of the Oriental 
Jacinth , but lying for the mofl part upon the 
ground from among which rifes up a round green 
Stalk about two feet high , bearing at its Top divers 
large flowers Handing upon long Footjta/is, and at 
bottom of every one of them a fmall Jhort pointed 
green Leaf Thefe flowers confifl of fix purely 
White Leaves apiece , with fix white Tbreds with 
yellow pendents , which are laid open as large as an 
ordinary Daffodil , with fining blackith heads in 
the middle , in form of a Starry Jacinth , or of the 
Jirft common Star-flower , having a pretty fweet 
fmell but weak , which open every day at Sun rife , 
and clofe themfelves again at Sun fet , efpecially 1} 
they grow in the Sun. 
VI. The fourth, or ^Ethiopian Star-flower. Its 
Root, is thick round and white , fomewhat like the 
Afphodelus Galeni, and impatient cf bearing cold, 
as the great Arabian Star-flower. The Leaves of 
this Plant are a Foot long, and about an Inch 
broad, which being broken, are no lefs Woolly than 
the Wooly Jacinth. The Stalk is about a foot and 
half high, flrong, and green : from the middle 
whereof unto the Top, ft and large Snow white Star- 
like flowers, upon long, green, thick foot Stalks, 
and yellowifh at bottom of the flower : in the middle 
of which ftands a Triangular head , which is long 
and containing the Seed, the which is furrouniei 
with fix white Tbreds , Tipt with yellow pen- 
dents. 
VII. The fifth, or Star-flowers of Naples. The 
Root is Bulbous, great and white, and fome, thing 
flat at bottom, as divers of thefe kinds are, which 
multiplies its felf as plentifully into fmall Bulbs , 
as the Jirft or Common Star-flower , or any other \ 
increafing indeed too much, and therefore requires 
to be yearly taken up,and freed from its off/ets,with 
which it is apt to be pefter’J. This beautiful Plant 
rifes out of the Ground very early , with 4 or 5 
long hollow pointed whitifh green Leaves, ft ending 
round together, with a white Line down the mid- 
dle of every Leaf on the inflde : thefe Leaves are 
fomething narrow, but long ( three feet long in 
Italy, as Columns fays, but not of fuch an extend- 
ed length with us.) In the middle of thefe Leaves 
rifes up the Stalk , about a foot and half or two 
feet high, bearing many flowers at Top, each flower 
ftanding in a little Cup or husk, which is divided 
into 3 Of 4 parts, hanging down very long about 
the heads for Seed : each flower is large , and con- 
Jifts of fix long narrow Leaves, of a Jhining white 
color on the in fide, and of a b/ewifli or whitifh green 
on the outfide , the edges of each Leaf being white 
on both fides, and turning backwards towards the 
Stalk , 
