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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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5f The De/cnption. 
1 CT* He white Lillie hath long/mooth, and full bodied leaues,ofagraflieor light greene 
I colour. The ftalkes be two cubits high, and fometimes more, fetor garnifhed with 
”*■ the like leaues, but growing fmallerand fmaller toward the top ; and vpon them doe 
grow faire white floures ftrong of fmell, narrow toward the foot of the fta Ike whereon they doe 
grow, wide or open in the mouth like a bell. In the middle part of them doe grow fmall tender 
pointals tipped with a dufty yellow colour, ribbed or chamfered on the backe iide, confifting of 
fix fmall leaues thicke and fat. The root is a bulbe made of fcaly clones, full of tough and clam- 
mie iuyee, wherewith the whole plant doth greatly abound. 
2 The white Lilly of Conftantinople hath very large and fat leaues like the former, but nar- 
rower and leffer. Theftalke rifeth vp to the height of three cubits, let and garnifhed with leaues 
alfo like the precedent, but much leffe. Which ftalke oftentimes doth alter and degenerate from 
his naturall roundneffe to a flat forme, as it were a lath of wood furrowed or chanelled along!! the 
fame, as it were ribs or welts. The floures grow at the top like the former, failing that the leaues 
do tutne themfelues more backward like theTurkes cap, and beareth many more floures than our 
Englifh white Lilly doth. 
I Lilium album. 
The white Lilly.’ 
2 Lilium album Bityntinum. 
The white Lilly of Conftantinople. 
the Place. 
Our Englifh white Lilly groweth in moft gardens of England. The other groweth naturally 
in Conftantinople and the parts adiacent, from whence wee had plants for our Englifh gardens, 
where they flourifh as in their owne countrey. 
51 The Time, 
The Lillies floure from Maytotheend oflune. 
the Names, 
The Lillie is called in Creeke «/*”• inLatine, Ldium^and aKo Rofa Tunonis , or luno's Rofe, be- 
can leas ic is reported it came vpofher milke that fell vpon the ground. For the Poets feigne.That 
H ercules, who Jupiter had by Alcumena, was put to luno's breafts while!! fhee was afleepe ■, and after 
the fucking there fell away aboundance of milke, and that one part was fpilt in theheauens, and 
the other on the earth; and that of this fprangtheLilly,and of the other the circle in theheauens 
