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QPthe Hiftorie of Plants. 
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the floures of Lilly conuall :on the other fide when the floures be vadtd there come forth round 
berries, which at the firft are greene, and ofablacke colour tending to bkwneflfej arid when they 
be ripe be ofthebignefle of luy berries, of a very (vveet and pleafant tafte. The root is white and 
thicke, full of knobs or ioynts, which in fome places referable the marke of a feale, whereof I think 
it tooke the name Sigillum Solomoms ; and is ivvect at the firft, but afterward of a'bi ttcr tafte , with 
fome fharpenefle. 
2 The fecond kinde of Polygomtum doth not much vary from tire former, failing in the leaues, 
which be narrower, and grow round about the ftalke like a fpur, in falhion like vnto Woodroofe 
or red Maddenamong the leaues come forth floures like the former, but of a greenerwhite colour : 
which being part, there fncceed berries like the former, butofa rcddiflr colour : which being paft, 
there fucceed berries like theformer,butof a reddifh colour : the roots are thick and knobby like 
the former, with fome fibres anexed thereto. 
3 pdygonatitm Ltifolium 2 . Clujij. 
Sweet fmelling Solomons Seale, 
4 Polygonatumramofiim . 
Branched Solomons Seale. 
3 The third kinde of Solomons Scale, which Cur dm found in the wooddy mountains 
oFLeitenberg,aboue Manderftorf,and innrany other mountaines beyond the riuer Danubius c- 
fpecially among the ftones, hee fent to London to M.'. Garth a worfhipfull Gentleman, and ont 
that greatly delighteth in ftrange plants, who very louingly imparted the fame vnto me. This plani 
hath ftalkes very like vnto the common Solomons Scale, a foot high, befet with leaues vpon on< 
fide of the ftalke like the firft and common kinde, but larger, and more approching to the bigneffi 
of the broad leafed Plantaine, the tafte whereof is not very pleafant : from the bofome of wind 
leaues come forth fmall well fmelling greenifh white floures not much vnlike the firft • which be. 
ing paft, there follow feeds or berries that are at the firft green, but afterward blacke , containins 
within the fame berries a fmall feed as big as a Vetch, and as hard as aftone. The roots are liki 
vntotbeotberofhis kinde, yet notfothicke as thefirft. 
4 The fourth ki nd according to my account, but the third of £ 7 «/ 7 «/(which he found alfo in thi 
mountaines atorefaid) groweth a foot high, but feldome a cubit, differing from all the others o 
his kinde ; for his ftalkes diuide themfelues into fundry other branches, which are garnifhed wit] 
goodly leaues, larger and fharper pointed than any of the reft, which do embrace the ftalks abon 
after the manner of Pcrfoliata or Thorow-wax, yet very like vnto the kindes ofSolomons Seale i: 
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