Lib. i. 
Of the Hillorie of .Plants, 
191 
called LaBcus Circuits , or the milky way, or otherwife in Englifli Wading ftreet. Saint Bafi/l in 
the explication of the 44. Pfalme faith. That no floure folinely fets forth the frailty of mans life 
as the Lilly. It is called in high Dutch, i©ctff ©Igetl : in low Dutch, 0 @ttte jLfltetl : in Italian, 
Giglio ; in Sp.mifh, Lino bianco : in French, Lp blanc : in Englilh, the white Lilly. 
The other is called Ltlittm album Bi^aminum, and a\(o Man agon album Bi\aminum in Enoiifh 
the white Lilly of ConftantinOpIe : of the T urkes themfelues ,Su!tan Zambach,\s ith this addition, 
(that they might be the betterknownewhichkindeof Lilly they meant when they fent roots of 
them into thefe countries) Fa poragrandt Bianehi •, fo that Sultan Zambachfa fora grands Bianehi , is 
as much to fay as, Sultans great Lilly with white fioures. 
5 ] The Nature, 
The white Lilly is hot, and partly of a lubtill fubltance. But if you regard the root, ids dry in 
the firft degree, and hot in the l'econd. 
The Vertms , 
The root of the garden Lilly damped with honey gleweth together linewes that be cut in fun- j\ 
der. It confumeth or lcourcth away the vlcers of the head called Achores, and likewife all feur- 
uinefle of the beard and face. 
The Root damped with Vineger, the leauesof Henbane, or the meale of Barley, cureth the 
tumours and apodumes of the priuy members. It bringeth the haire againe vpon places which ® 
haue beene burned or fealded, if it be mingled with oylc or greafe, and the place anointed there- 
with. 
The fame root roded in the embers, and damped with fome leauen ofllie bread and Hogges q 
greafe, breakethpedilentiall botches. Itripeneth Apodumes in the flankes,commingofvenery 
and fueh like. 
The doures deeped in Oyle Oliue, and drifted two or three times during Sommer , and fet in q 
the Sunne in a drong glade, is good to (often the hardneffe of finewes, and the hardneffe of the 
matrix. 
Tlorentinus a writer ofhusbandry faith, That if the rootbe curioufly opened, and therein be put 
fome red, blew, or yellow colour that hath no caudicke or burning qualitie,it will caufe the floure 
to be of the dime colour. 
Julius s^ilexandrinus the Emperors Phydtian faith, That the water thereof diddled and drunke r 
caufeth eafie and fpeedy deliuc-rance,and expelleth the fecondtne or after-burthen in mod fpeedy 
manner. 
He alfo faith, the leaues boyled inred Wine, andapplied toold wounds or vlcers, doe much r 
good, and forward the cure, according to the do&rine of Galen in his feuenth booked fimpl. med, ^ 
facultat. 
The root ofa white Lilly damped and drained with wine, and giuen to drinke for two or three 
dayes together,cxpe!leth the poyfon of the pedilence, and caufeth it to breake forth in bliflers ^ 
in the outward part of the skinne, according to the experienceofa learned Gentleman ^..William 
Godorus , Sergeant Surgeon to the Queenes Maieftieiwho alfo hath cured many of the Dropfey 
with the iuyee thereof, tempered with Barley meale, and baked in cakes , and fo eaten ordinarily 
for fome raoneth or flx weekes together with rneate, but no other bread during that time. 
Chap. 103 . Of %ed Lillies. 
The Kindes. 
T Here be likewife fundry forts of Lillies, which we do comprehend vnder one generall name 
in Englilh, Red Lillies, whereof fome are of our ovvne countries growing, and others of be- 
yond the feas, the which fliallbedidinguifhed feuerally in this chapter that follow eth. 
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The Vefcriftiort. 
1 ’’ | 'He gold-red Lilly gtoweth to the height of two, and fometimes three cubits, and of- 
J_ tenhigherthan thofe of the common white Lilly. The leaues be blacker and nar- 
rower, fet very thicke about die dalke. The flourcs in the top be many, from ten to 
thirty Homes, according to the age of the plant, and fertilitie of the foile, like in forme and great- 
neffe to rhofeofthe white Lilly, but ofa red colour tending to a Saffron, fprinkled or poudred 
with many little blacke fpecksj like to rude vnperfeQ: draughts of certaine letters. The roots be 
great bnlbes, confiding of many clones, as thofe of the white I. illy. 
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