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ry far from being pcrfcd, but that he really meant the fame Plant 
with mine, is evident from every thing that he has faid of it; 
which the Reader will find inferted in his own Words, under the 
fcvcral Heads of the following Account. 
After CornutuSi the firft Author by whom I find any mention made 
of this Flower, is our own Country Man John Rea^ of Kinlet, near 
Beudly in fVorcefterjhire, It is he who firft called it the Qarnfay 
Lilly y and indeed that is all he has faid about it, which is worth 
obferving : For after telling us “ that the Narcijfus Virginianus La^ 
tifolius flore purpttrafeente bearcth many Flowers on one Stalk, like 
“ fmall LillieSy of a fuilen purplilh Colour, never opening, and fel- 
“ dom flicwing the inner Sides of the Leaves in its natural Country i 
“ and he doubts will hardly live in ours: He adds, as it were only by 
the by, that of this Generation is the Narciffus of Japan or Garnfay 
“ Lilly y which there profpers, and bears in Odfober Peach colour'd 
Flowers ; and that the Indian Daffadils are all ftrangers in England^ 
“ except that of Garnfay, 
Whatever it was in England at the time this Author wrote, it is 
more than probable, it was as great a Stranger to him, as any of the 
reft : For had he ever feen it, it is impofiible he fliould not have 
taken more notice of fo cflential a requifite belonging to a Florift, 
in a Book, which the Title would perfwade us is furnifhed with 
them all. 
About this fame time. Father Rapiny a learned French Jefuitc, in 
his Book of Gardens, defigned, as his Society pretends, for a Supple- 
ment to Virgils Georgicks, put fome part of Cornutus’s Defeription 
into Latin Verfe. Concerning this Author it is fulficient to obferve, 
that as he has faid nothing new concerning this Plant, fo he is known 
to have been a much better Humanift than a Botanift. His Verfifica- 
tion is allowed by every body to be very beautiful, and therefore I 
have thought it worth while to tranferibe what relates to my Lillyy 
together with two Englif) Tranflations of it ; the firft by Mr. Evelyn, 
the other by Mr. Gardner, 
Mr. Evelyn has every where render'd the Senfe of his Author ex- 
actly enough, but the Didion of Mr. Gardner is more refined, and 
his Verfes much more harmonioufly turned. 
Soon after this appear’d Monf. Jonquets Catalogue of the Plants, 
in the Royal Garden at RariSy which had been juft then reftored and 
augmented at the Publick Charge, under the Diredion of Monfieur 
Valloty firft Phyfician to Loiiis the yiSSth. The Garnfay Lilly was 
too confiderable a Plant, not to deferve a Place there, and it is not 
improbable that they were fupply’d with it, out of Morinus‘$ Garden ; 
at leaft it cannot have been very common at that time about Baris : 
otherwife Monf. Jonquet, who appears by the Catalogue of his own 
Plants 
