Lib. i. 
Of the Hillorie of Plants. 
99 
Theflace. 
Thcfe Lillies do grow in my garden, as alio in the gardens of Herbarifts, and iouers of fine and 
rare plants ■. but not wilde in England, as in other countries. 
The time. 
Thefe Lillie s do floure fomewhat before the other Lillies, and the yellow Lillie the fooneft 
The names . 
Diners do c all this kinde of Lillie, Liliaj}hodclus,Ltliago, and alfo Liliafirum, but moil common 
Vj Lihumvon hulbofum : In Englifh,Liriconfancie, and yellow Lillie. The old Herbarifts name 
it Hemerocallis: fortheyhaue two kindcs of ; the one a fhrub onvoody plant is wit- 
nefleth Theoplbrafius, in his fixrh booke of the hiftorieof Plants. Pliny fetreth downe the fame 
flirub among thole plants, the leauos whereof onely do feme for garlands. 
The lorher Bemerecallis which they Let downe, is a Floure which perifheth atninht and buddeth 
at the Sunne riling, according to Mttum and therefore it is fitly called that is Faire or 
beautifull for a day : and fo we in Englifh may rightly termc it the Day-Lillie,or Lillie for a day, 
«J The nature. ■ ' 
The nature is rather referred to the Afphodils than to Lillies, 
Thevertues. 
Die [corides faith. That the root damped with honey, and a mother peflarie made thereof with A 
wool!., and put vp,bringeth forth water and blond. n 
The leauesftamped and applied do allay hot fivellings in the dugges, after womens trauell in B 
childe-bearing 5 and likcwife taketh away the inflammation of the eyes. 
The roots and the leaues be laid with good fucceffe vpon burnings and fealdings. G 
Chap. 73. Of bulbed Floure deduce. 
$ I iris Bulkofa tail folia'. 
Broad leaued Bulbous Floure de-lucc,’ 
2 Iris Bulhofa AngUca. 
Onion Floure de-Luce, 
