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Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 
Lib. i. 
Chap, i i 5. Of Satjrion T^oyalL 
The Defcription. 
i r T“' , He male Satyripn royal hath large roots, knobbed, not bulbed as the others, but bran- 
chcd or cut into fundry feitions like an hand, from the which come vp thick and fat 
ftalkes fetwith large Itaues like thole of Lillies,butldTe ; at the top whereofgrow- 
eth a tuft of floures, fpotted with a deepe purple colour. 
1 PulmuChrijHmas . 
Tfce mgle §atyriop, 
C T&i 
2 PalmdChri/liftemina. 
The female Satyrion Royall. 
2 The female Satyrion hath clouen or forked roots, with fome fibres ioyned thereto. The 
leauesbe like the former, but finaller and narrower, and confuled ly dafhed or fpotted with black 
fpots : from the which fpringethvpatenderftaIke,atthetopwhereofdothgrowa tuft of purple 
floures, in fafhion like vnto a Friers hood, changing or varying according to thefoile and clymar, 
fometimes red, fometimes white, and fometimes light carnation or flelh colour. 
f 3 This in foots and leaues is like the former, but that the leaues want the black fpots, the 
llalke is but low, and the top thereof hath floures ofa whirifh colour, not fpotted : they on the 
foreliderelcmble gaping hopds, with eates on each fide, and abroad lip hanging down - thebacke 
partends inabroadobtutefpur. Thefe floures finell like Elder blolfomes. ^ 
The PUce. 
The royall Satyrions grow for the moll part in moift and fenny grounds, medowes, and Woods 
t hat are v cry moift and (hadowie. I haue found them in many places, efpecially in the midft of a 
Kc ?J ca,! ™ Swamefcombe wood neerc to Grauefend,by the village Swainefcombe,and 
likewife in Hanapfted wood foure miles from London. 
. ThcTtme. 
They ffoure in May and Iune, but feldome later. 
The 
