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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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themfelues of thofe varieties, to fuch as haue onely and purpofely treated of Floures and their di- 
uerfities, as Dc-Brj, Sivcrts, and our Countreyman M. Parkinfon, who in his Paradifasterrejlris , fet 
forth in Englifh, Anno 1619. hath iudicioufly and exa&ly comprehended all that hathbeenc de- 
liuered by others in this nature. £ 
yf 6 Iris Bulbofa jlore cincreo. 
Afh-coloured Floure de-lucc. 
£ 7 Iris Bulbofa fore alii do ~ 
Whitifh Floure de-fuJfr. 
qy Theplace. 
The fecond of thefe bulbed Floure deduces growes v, ide, or of it felfe in the corne fields of 
* the Weft parts of England, as about Bathe and Wt i -.and thofe places adjacent 5 from whence 
they were firft brought into London,where they be naturalifed,and encreafe m great plenty in our 
The other forts do grow naturally in Spaineand Italy wilde, from whence we hauehad Plants 
for our London gardens, whereof they do greatly abound. 
([] The time. 
They floure in I une and Iuly, and feldomeafter. 
. ' ay The names. 
The Bulbed Floure de-luce is callcdof Lobelias , Iris Bulbofa, and alfo Hyacmhus florc _ Iridis of 
fome, Hiicinthns Poctarum ■ and peraduenture it is the fame that Apulcius mentioned! in the one 
and twentieth Chapter, (hying. That Iris, named among the old Writers Hurts, may alfo be cal- 
led. and not vnproperly, Werobulbus, or Htenbulbus : as though you rtiould fay, Ins Bulbofa, or Bul- 
bed Ireo s . vnlc (Te you would haue , called a greater or larger Bulbe : for it is certaine, that 
great and huge things were called of the Antients 5 or Sacra. : in Englifh, Holy. 
The nature. 
The nature of thefe Bulbed Floure de-luces are referred to the kindes of Afphodils. 
• ay The •vertues. 
Take, faith Apulcius, of the herbe Hierobulbus fix 5. Goats fuet as much , Oile of Alcanna one 
A pound - mix them together, being firft ftamped in a (lone rnorter, it taketh away the paine or the 
Moreouer,ifavvomandovfetowafhherfacevviththcdeco( 2 ionofthe root , mixed with the 
B meale of Lupines ,i t forthwith cleanfeth away the freckles Sc morphew,and fuch like deformities. 
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