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Tbe Theater of Tlants, 
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j (oipewhat flatter then the former, the leaves are (ho’-terand rounder then ir, but Hand thicke together, theflow- 
ersarelargei then in any of the former.andfweeter.fmcllinglike Hawthorne flowers, more alio (landing at each 
; leal- the berries that follow are large like the [aft, and fo is the roote alio, e-lpecially if it grow in good ground, 
■orelfelmaller. 
4. ‘‘folygonatum maxima folio. The greateft leafed Salomons Scale, 
j Thu Salomons Seale groweth in the fame manner thatthe former lorts doe, with a (ta,kc rather greater and 
jhigher then (he laft, but not fo upright, the leaves hereof are larger by balfethenit, almpft as great as the leaves 
,of Ellehorwolbus .or the white Neelewort, of a paler greene colour, and not lo whitifh or yellow underneath i 
the flowers are white, (landing upon long ftalkts like the firfl, but ufually more together, and without fern like 
them : the berries that follow are like the firfl, and fo are tlierootcs. 
Poljgonatum latifolium minus, Small Solomons Seale. 
This fmall Salomons Seale hath a lower ftalke, fcarfe a foote high, not bending downe fo much as the firfl, but 
[(having fuch like leaves thereon, and in the fame manner, yet fomewhat harder or differ: the flowers come forth 
1 at the foote of the leaves in the fame fafhion,but are larger,(landing upon ihort foOtellalke,, and but one upon a 
llalke,without lent like the firfl,the berries and roots differ not alio from the firfl, 
6 . Polygonatum Utifoliumramoftim jive yuartnm Clujii. Broad leafed branched Solomons Seale, 
This branched Salomons Scale rifeth up ufually with a crooked or bend ing ff alke, about a foote or more long, 
having one or two or three branches fometimes iffuing out from the Tides thereof, at the joynts whereof Hand fe- 
verall leaves as in the former forts, and fomewhat like them alfo, being fomewhat large and long, but tenderer 
and fofter and not hoary underneath,compaffing the ftalke at the lower end where it isbroadeft, like tile leaves of 
Thorough waxiunderneath every leafe 6: at the fidesof them alfo at the joynts commeth forth one white flower, 
ending in fix corners, fpottedwithblackifhfpotsontheinfide, (landing on a crooked long and pendulous foot- 
ftalke which fmelleth pretty and fweete: after the flowers are pafl there come in their places three fquare berries 
greene at the firfl, which when they grow ripe are fomewhat longer then before, and equall a fmall berry of 
the Cornm mas or the Cornell Cherry inbigneffe almoft, and of a reddifli colour, having many whitifh kern ells 
within them; the roote is not tuberous like the former forts, but fknderand knotty, and of a paler colour,(hoo¬ 
ting forth into many nodes or knotts, with divers long fibres and firings fallned thereto, the llalkes dying ycare- 
ly and new rifing up in the Spring. 
7. PolyganatumVirginiamim. Solomons Scale oiVirginia. 
This Salomons Seale, diftereth from the former in three principall parts, that is firfl in the rootes.vvhich are 
in thefe (lender,long.and creeping like as mod of our Virginian plants are,and (hooting up ftalkes roiind about, 
and not tuberous as in the former; then in the flowers, which in this are not fet at the foote of the leaves as ire 
rhe other (yet the leaves are of the lame falhion, and Hand one above another, upon a (ingle upright ftalke, andt 
7. PolygonaturaV'irginianum. 
Salomons Scale of trirgini1,. 
8. P Jygonotum raemofum Amvicanum. 
Cluflcr like Salmons Seale of America, 
