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LOCUS NATALIS. 
OrnutiiSt whom we have already obferved to be the firft Au- 
thor who has defcrib'd the Guernfay Lillyj informs us like- 
wilc, that it is originally a Plant of japariy and by what Means 
thofe of them, which he had an opportunity of feeing, came firft 
into Europe. Johannes MorinuSy no doubt, a very curious Perfon, 
was at a great deal of Pains and Charge to have it brought from 
Japany and cultivated it in his own Garden at EariSy and at length, 
on the 7th Day of OEiober 1634. he had the Pleafure of feeing it 
in full Blollbm. Inter omnes Narcijfos qui hatienus invifi apud nos 
extiterunty primay ut ArbitroVy Auiioritas nobilijjimo huic generi 
debetUTy quod paucis abhinc Annis ex Japonia allatum, Jirenui ad- 
tnodum & nullis fumptibus parcentis viri Johannis Morini cultura, 
tandem in florem profiluit feptimo menjts Ollobris annoE)omini 1(534, 
This Garden of MorinuSy was famous for the uncommon exotic 
Plants contained in it, three and twenty Years after the Time that 
Cornutus here mentions, for Dr. Morifony in his Hijioria Oxonienfisy 
takes Notice of his having feen there the Narciffus Indicus fpha- 
ricus flore Liliaceo of Baptijia Ferrarius in the Year 1657. 
Kempferus faw it growing in Japan, where he remain’d two full 
Years, and by the variety of Names he found for it amongft the 
i^atives, it is plain they took no fmall notice of it. 
After thefe exprefs Teftimonies of Cornutus, and Kempferus, it is 
fomething furprizing that there fhould be any Body found, to deny 
its being originally a Japan Flant ; efpecially they having no other 
pretence for fuch a Conceit, but meerly that the Flower Leaves of the 
Guernfay Lilly, when viewed in the Sun, appears very much to rc- 
rcmbic that fort of Varnilh call’d Japaning j but at this rate, the Truth 
of all FaiSls may be call’d in queftion, by every Perfon who has fer- 
tility of Imagination enough to invent Conjedures and far fetch’d 
Similitudes, as Arguments againft them : It ought rather to have 
been concluded, that fince that Workmanfhip, as well as this Plant, 
came firft from this happy Illand, the firft Invention of it might pro- 
bably be owing to the beautiful Mixture of Colours and Sparkles ob- 
ferv’d on thefe Leaves. 
That the original native Soil of this Plant was Japan, is further 
confirm’d from the manner of its firft being brought into the Britijh 
Dominions. This happen’d by a very fingular, melancholy Acci- 
dent 5 of which Dr. Morifon, who no doubt, had it from fomc Per- 
fons, than refiding in Guernfay, gives us the following Account in 
the Book abovementioned. AF>utch or Englijh 'tis uncertain 
which, coming from Japan, with fome of the Roots of this Flower 
Oft Board, was caft away upon the Ifland of Guernfay ,• the Roots 
were 
