Between the beginning of the Stalk and the outcrmofl of the proper 
Coats of the Leaves, there rifes up a Procefs in form of a Wedge or 
Tongue, which is very broad, and thick at bottom, and grows nar- 
rower and thinner at top, between two and three Inches jn length. 
This Procefs feems to me to be what is left of the other Side of the 
Cafe, for the Stalk juft mentioned, but why thefe two fhould not have 
been continued as well as the other Coats, is, 1 own, to me as yet 
a Secret. 
From the Edge of the Bafis, or Heart of the Root (as the Gardiners 
call it) arife eight, ten, or fometimes twelve pretty large RadktiU 
or Fibr£ of a white Colour j fomc of them arc about the bignefs of 
a large Goofe Quill, and fix or feven Inches in length, and may per- 
haps, grow much longer when they are not confined in Pots : Others 
of them again, were a good deal fhortcr. 
From each of thefe F'tbra there arife abundance of fmaller FibrilU^ 
or Strings, by all which the Plant draws its nourifhment from the 
Earth it grows in. Thefe Fibrilla are from one, to two, and three 
Inches in length. 
Between thefe FibrilU or RadkuU, we obferve fevcral fmall blind 
Holes. 
Upon taking a Root out of the Ground in the middle of Marchy 
when the Leaves were withering, I obferv’d a great many of thefe 
Fibra to be quite fhrivel’d up and wafted. 
Cornutus has informed us of nothing that belongs to the Root of 
this Plant, but that it is bulbous, and like thofe of the other NarciJJi 
fub eft Bulbus prioribus fimilts. 
Kempferus tells us, that in Japan the Root is looked upon to be 
Poifonous } and this is all he lays about it. 
FOLIA. 
T H E Leaves of all the Plants as well thofe that Flower, as thofe 
that do not, arife from the middle of the Fundus or very low'd: 
part of the Root, and arc continued up through the Bulb, afeending 
in a ftreight Line, involved in all its Coats j three or four of which 
accompany them for about an Inch or more above it, ferving for a 
Cafe to fupport and ftrengthen them, while tender and wcakc. 
That part of the Leaves which is above the Root, is of a dark Wil- 
low 'Green, but withal they appear, it as were, Ihining or lucid. 
That 
