Lib. I. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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£ 4 Gladiolus Lactiftrts. 
no. Water Sword-Flag. 
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The description. 
i r^Rench Corne-Flagge hath fmall ftifFe 
jp leaues, ribbed or chamfered with long 
nerues or finewes running through the 
fame, in (hape like thole of the fmall Floure de- 
luce, or the blade of a fword,fharpe pointed, of an 
ouer-worne greene colour, among the which rifeth 
vp a ftiffe brittle ftalke two cubits highpvhereup- 
on doe grow in comely order many faire purple 
Floures, gaping like thole of Snapdragon, or not 
much differing from the Fox-Gloue, called inLa- 
tiae Digital is. After them come round knobbie 
leed-veflels, full of chaffie feed, very light, of a 
brovvne reddifh colour. The root confifteth of 
twoBulbes,onefetvpon theothc-r- thevppermoft 
whereofin the beginning of the Spring is Jcffer, 
and more ful of juice ; the lower greater, but more 
looleandlithie, which a little while after peri- 
fheth. * 
_ : Italian Corn-Flag hath long narrow leaues 
with many ribbes or nerues running throuo-h the 
fame ; the ftalke is If life and brittle, whereupon do 
grow Floures orderly placed vpor. one fide of the 
ftalke, whereas the precedent hath his floures pla- 
ced on both the fides oft^ieffalkepn fhapeand co- 
lourliketheformer,asarealfothefoots, but fel- 
dome feene one aboue another, as in the former. 
3 There is a third fort of Corne-Flag which 
agreeth with the lalf deferibed in euerie point, fa- 
iling thatthe Floures of this are of a pale colour, 
as it were betweene white, and that which we call 
Maidens Blufh. 
iviaiuens jjiuin. 
r * l i Sw°rd-Flag,defcribed b Y Clnfius in his Cur.PoJl. hath leaues aboutafpan 
long, thickc and hollow, with a partition in their middles, like aswee feeinthecodsofStocke- 
Gillouers aiid the like : their colour is greene, and taftc fweet, fo that they are an acceptable food 
to thewilde Ducks duckmgdowne to the bottome of the water; for they fometimes lie fome 
er warer ^ which noyv-it h Handing is ouer-topt by the ftalke, which fprings vp from amon^ 
thefe leaues, and beares Floures ofcolour white, larger than thofe of Stock-Gillouers, but in that 
hollow part that is next the ftalke they are of a blewifh colour, almoft in fhape fcfemblino- the 
Floures of the Corne-Flag yet not abfolutely like them. They confift of fine leaues, whereof the 
twovppermoft are refleftod towards the ftalke . the three other being broader hang downwards 
After the floures there follow round pointed vefTels filled with red feed. It floures' at the end of 
. Itwas found in fome places ofWeft-Frifeland, by Iohn Doriman a leimed Apothecary of Gro- 
p!antbefides r ° VVeS lnVvaterS whlch Ilaue pllre grauell at the bottome, and that bring for* no 
Cluftus , and Dortmais who fent it him, call it Gladiolus Lacujlris, oxStagnalis. | 
wla'rifnf 1 inN? of 9. ornc '| Fla S s g ro 'J in medowes,and in eatable grounds among come, in many 
5 • , . / A as alio m the parts of France bordering thereunto. Neither are the fields of Au- 
r ' ? n • -c r£ ! U -^r l f hoU , t t ' 1em 3 as Goraus writeth . We haue great plenty ofthem in our London 
s,e pecully for thegarmfhing and decking them vp with their feemly Floures, 
„ r , The time. 
Tliey floure from May to the end of Inly. 
Thenqmcs. 
1S I i ln Gladiolus ; and of fome, Enfts ofothers, *,*». 
Tongue, 
