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Of the Hiiforie of Plants. 
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«] Thedefcription. 
T He leaues of the Kings Spenre are Jong, 
narrow, and chamfered or furrowed , of a 
blervilh greene colour, The ftalk is round. 
t 3 <~dJI>boddm Limcnfiru verm. 
The true Lancafhire Afphodil. 
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(X^/ktAdixjMnA. a cubit high. The flourcs which grow thereon 
from the middle to the top are very many, in lhape like 
totheflouresof the other ; which being paft, rhere 
come in place thereof little round heads or fecd-veffels, 
wherein the feed is contained. The roots in like man- 
ner are very many, long, and (lender, fmaller than thofe 
of the other yellow fort. Vpon the lides whereof grow 
forth certaine firings, by which the plant it felfe is ea- 
fily encreafed and multiplied . 
2 There is found in thefe dayes a certaine waterie 
ormarifh Afphodill like vnto this laft deferibed, in 
ftalke and flourcs, without any difference at all. It brin- 
geth forth leaues of a beautifull greene fomwhat cham- 
fered, like to thofe of the Floure de-luce, or corne-fiag, 
but narrower, not full a fpan long. The ftalke is ftrait, 
a foot high, whereupon grow the flourcs, confifting of 
fixe fmall leaues : in the middle whereof come forth 
fmall yellow chiues or threds. The feed is very fmall, 
contained in long fharpe pointed cods. The root is 
long,ioynted,andcrecpethasgraiTe doth, with many 
fmall firings. 
$ 3 Befides the laft defcribedfwhich our Author I 
feare miftaking, termed (bboddm Lnncaftrix ) there is 
another water Afphodill, which grovves in many rotten 
moorifh grounds in this kingdome, and in Lancafhire 
isvfedbywomento die their haire of a yellowifh co- 
lour, and therefore by them it is termed Maiden-haire, 
if we may beleeue Lobcll.) This plant hath leaues of 
fome two inches and an halfe, or three inches long, being fomewhat broad at the bottome, and fo 
fharpet towards their ends. The ftalke feldome attaines to the height of a foot, and it is Imooth 
without any leaues thereon : the top thereof rs adorned with pretty yellow ftar-Iike floures,wher- 
to fucceed longifli little cods, vfually three, yet fometimes foure or flue fquare, and in thefe there 
is contained a fmall red feed. The root confifts onely ofa few fmall firings. $ 
TbcpUce. 
1 The fmall yellow Afphodill groweth not of it fclfc wilde in thefe parts , notwithftanding 
wehauegreat plentythereofinourLondongardens. 
2 The Lancafhire Afphodill groweth in rnoift and marifh places necrc vnto the Tovvne of 
Lancafter,ir. the moorifh grounds there, as alfoneerevnto Maudfley and Martom,two Villages 
not farte from thence: where it was found by a Worfhipfull and learned Gentleman, a diligent 
fearcherof fimples, and feruent louer of plants, M. Thomas Hcsket, who brought the plants there- 
of vnto me for the encreafe of my garden. . . 
I receiued fome plants thereof likevvife from MafterTfoww Edwards, Apothecane in Excefter, 
learned and skilfull in his profeffion, as alfo in the knowledge of plants.He found this Afphodill 
at the foot ofa hill in the Weft part of England, called Bagfhot hill,neerevnto a village of the 
famename. . . , 
$ This Afphodill figured and defetibed out of Vodorutis, and called Afthodelus Lunujtru by 
our Author, growes in an heath fome two miles from Bruges in Flanders, and diners other places 
of the Low-countries ; but whether it grow in Lancafhire or no, I can fay nothing of certaintie : 
but I am certaine, that which I haue deferibed in the third place grovves in many places or the 
Wcftof England ; and this yeare 1632, my kinde friend M. George Bowles font mee fome plants 
thereof, which I keepe vet stowing;. Zu^/Zalfoaffirmes this to be the Lancafhire Afphodill. 
^Tbetime. 
They floure in May and Iune : moftofthe leaues thereof remaine greene in the Winter,if it be 
not extreme cold. 
The times. 
Some ofthe later Hcrbarifts thinke this yellow Afphodill to be Iph-jon of Thcophrojlus , and 
4 others 
