Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. 
4 Afyhodclus litteus. 
Yellow Afphodill. 
t 5 Befides thefc there is an Afphodill 
which Clufius for the fmalneife calls AJj/hodelus 
minimus. The roots thereof are knotty and tu- 
berous, refembling thofc of the formerly de- 
feribed, but leffe: from thefe anfe fine or fixe 
very narrow and long leaues ; in the middeft of 
which growes vpaftalk of the height ofa foot, 
round and without branches, bearing at the top 
thereof a fpoke of floures,confifting of fix white 
leaues a piece, each of which hath a ftreake run- 
ning alongft it, both on theinfideand outfide, 
likeasthefirftdefcribed. Itfloures in the be- 
;inningofIuly,whenas the reft are pad; their 
Joures. It lofeth the leaues in W inter, and gets 
new ones againe in the beginning of Aprill. $ 
The time and f lace. 
They flourein May and Iune, beginning be- 
low, and fo flouring vpward : and they grow na- 
turally in France, Italy, Spaine,and moftof 
them in our London Gardens. 
The names. 
Afphodill is called in Latine, Afihodelus, Al- 
lucum. Mucus, and Haliula Regia - in Greeke, 
i ■■ in Englifh, Afphodill, not Daffodil •, for 
Daffodill is Narcijpts , another plant differing 
from Afphodill. Pliny writeth, That the ftalke 
with the floures is called Anthericos ; and the 
toot, that is to fay, the bulbs AfthMus. ^ 
