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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
Lib. i. 
fpoke of floures, which confiding of fix leaues apiece (hew themfelues open in May- they in co- 
lour are like the firft deferibed, as alfo in the greenc ftreake on the lower fide of each leaf'e. T he 
feed is blacke, round, and contained in triangular beads. The root is bulbous, long, and white, f 
t 4 This fourth, which is the OrnithogdumHifMicum minus of Clufius, hath a little white root 
which fends forth leaues like the common one, but narrower, and deftitute of the white line wher- 
vvith the other are marked. The ftalke is fome two handfulls high, bearing at the top thereof fome 
feuen or eight floures growing each aboue other, yet fo, as that they feemeto make an vmbell : 
each of thelc floures hath fix leaues of a whitifh blew colour, with fo many white chines or threds, 
and‘a little blewiih vmbonein the mid ft. T his floures in Aprill. 
5 This fifth firft fends vp one onely leafe two or three inches long, narrow, and of a whitifh 
colour, and of an acide tafte: nigh whereto rifeth vp a fmall ftalke fome inch or two high, hailing 
one or two leaues thereon, betweene which come forth fmall ftar-flourcs, yellow within, and of a 
greenifh purple without. The feed, which is reddifh and fmall, is contained in triangular heads. 
The root is white, round, and couered with an Aih-coloured filnje. 
3 O rmthogalum Pannonicum . 
StarofHungary. 
4 : 4 Ornithogdum Hiffmnicttm minus. 
The Idler Spanilh Star-floure, 
6 I thinke it notamiffe, hereto to adde another fmall bulbous plant, which Clufius calls Bid- 
bus rm The one leaned Bulbe. This from a fmall root fends forth one rufli-Ieafe of fome foot 
in length, which about two inches aboue the earth, being fomevvhat broader than in the other pla- 
ces, and guttered., fends forth a little ftalke fome three inches Iong,whofe top is fetwith three 
little floures, each (landing aboue other, about the bignelfe here prefented vnto your view in the 
figure : each of thofe confiftethof fix very white leaues, and are not much vnlike the floures of the 
grade ofParnnffus, but yet without leaues to fuftaine the floure, as it hath : fix white threds tipt 
with yellow, and a three fquare head with a white pointall poflefle the middeft of the floure:, the 
fmell thereof is fomevvhat like that of the floures of the Haw-thorne. It floures in the midft of 
lime. 
7 Hailing done with thefe two fmall plants, I muft acquaint you with three or foure larger, 
belonging alfo to this Claffis. The firft of thefe is that which Dodon&M calls Ornithogdum majus, 
and C lufuis. Ornithogdum Ardicum : This by Laid and fome others is called Lilium Alcxandnnum, 
or 
