41 B 
Of the Hiftorie of PI; nts. 
— 1 1 
Ll B. 2. 
C h a p. pi. Oj Lilly in the valley, or May L illy. 
t LitiumcomaUiuml 
ganuall Lillies. 
Co 0 ^ O&WCo IhociiclAjl 
2 Lilium comallium flonbus fmuc. rubentibuS. 
Red Conuali Lillies. 
C-OVvV oJLLcxsJ-a*- I'hcUaLui l\l cm- ' 
The Defcrijtion. 
I *-|-'He Conuall Lillie, or Lilly of the Vally, hath many leaues like the final left Icaues ot 
J. Water Plantaine, among which rifethvp a naked ftalkehalfe a foot high, gainnhed 
with many white floureslike little bfels,with blunt and turned edges, of a ftrong fauour.yct plea- 
fantenoughwhichbeingpaft,therec6melmallred berries, much like the bereij'S’ of AJfaragus, 
wherein the feed is contained. The root is fmalland {lender, creeping far abroad Th the ground: 
z Thefecond kinde of May Lillies, is^ikc the former in euery refpeft ; and herein vaneth or 
differed), in that this kindehath reddifh floures,ar,d is thought tohaue the fwceter fmcll. 
«|I The P luce. 
1 The firft groweth on Hampfted heath, foure miles from London, in great abundance : neere 
to Lee in E ffc-x, and vpon Bufhie heath, thirteene miles from London, and many other places. 
2 That other kind with the red floure is a lbranger in England:howbeit Ihaue the lame grow- 
ing in my garden. 
The T ime. 
They floure in May, and their fruit is ripe in September, 
jy •[ The Names. . 
The La tines haue named it Lilium Conualhum ; Gcfacr doth thinke it to be Cal/icrymum ■ in 1 
Germane tongue.^fpctJ bltllTtlCtl : the low Dutch. CJjlrpeii hlOdt hcnS : in French, Mugutt .- yet 
there is likevvife another herbe which they cal! commonly named in Englifh,v oo too, . 
Itis called in Englifh Lillie of the Valley, or the" Conuali Lillie, and May Lillies, and in lome 
places Liriconfancie. 
«[j The Nature. 
They are hotanddrie ofeemplexion. 
«! The 
