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Show 168 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. nett Lisi Lis. 1. the middle ofthe floure is poffeffed by another little floure, confifting alfoof fix lirele leaues,ha, uing in themfix threads headed with yellow, anda vi hite pointall. A blacke wrinkled: feed is containedin three cornered heads, whichbyreafonof their bigneffe weigh dowgg theftalke. This flouresin Aprill. ¢ £ 9 Ornithogalum Neapolitanum. ¢ ( ae The Neapolitan Star-floure, + 8 Ornithecalumficatum. Spike fafhionedStar-floute. Of the Hiftorie of Plants, Cuar.93, Of Onions. © The Kindes. Herebe,faith Theophraftus, divers forts of Onions, which haue their fyr-names of the places where they grow : fomealfoleffer, others greater ; omebe round , and diuers others long ; burt none wilde,as P/iay writeth. 1 Cepaalbas White Onions. £ 3 Cepa Hifpanica oblonga. Longifh Spanifh Onions, @ The Place. Stars ofBethichem,or Star-floures, efpecially the firft and fecond, grow infundryplaces that lie open to the aire, not onely in Germany and the Low-countries, but alfo in England, andin our gardens verycommon. Theyellow kinde Zobel! found in Somerfet-fhite in theeorne fields. The reftareftrangers in England ; yet we haue moft of them, as the third,fourth, eighth, and ninth, in fome of ourchoice gardens. | The Time, Thefekindes of bulbed plants do floure from Aprill tothe end ofMay. @ The Names. G The Deftription. Touching thenames, Diofcorides calls it 'oms,an : Pliny, Ornithogale : in high Dutchit is called Feids wibel,Ackers wwibel tas you thould fay, Cepaagraria : in Englifh, Stars ofBethlehem... +. Thereft are named in their titles and hiftory ; but Clufius queftions whether the Bulbws um Solius benot Bulbine of Theophraftus, 7. hift. 13. Banhinus feemes to affirme the Spicatum to be Holy ofDiofcorides and Theophraftus,and Epimedium ofPliny, gq The Nature. Thefe are temperate in heate and drineffe. A q ThePertues. Thevertues ofmoft ofthem are vnknowne ; yet Hieronymus Tragus writeth, That the root ofthe Star of Bethlchemrofted in hot embers, and applied with honey in manner of a Cataplafime pulteffe, healeth old eating vicers, and fftens and difcuffes hard tumors. Theroots, faith Déofcorides, are eaten both raw and boyled. ‘fT That at which was the fecond ofour Author, uthor, under vn thetitle oF(ep aeraris, 4graris, andand the third third vnder vi Ornithopatu ithopat m futeum werebiguies of f the fame Ker, as Baubine obferues, the borcomeleaucs are Omitted, eh tame plant, plan but becaule thestalawar when asitis gtovene yp to floure. 3 oe in hel } p Chap. He Onionhathnarrowleaues, and hollowwithin ; the ftalkeis fingle, round, biggeft in the middle, on the top whereof growetha round head couered witha thinne skin orfilme, which being broken, there appearelittlewhite floures made vp in forme of aball, and afterward blackefeed three corneredjwrappedinthinne white skinnes. In ftead ofthe root there is a bulbe orround head compaét of many coats, which oftentimes becommeth great in manner ofa Turnep, manytimes long likeanegge. Tobebriefe, it is coueredwith. veryfine skinnes for the moft part ofa whitifh colour. : 2 Thered Oniondiffereth notfromtheformerburtin tharpnefle and redneffe ofthe roots, in otherrefpects there is no differenceat all. 5 $3 There isalfoa Spanifh kinde, whofe root is | onger thanthe other,but in otherre{pects verylittle differenc. $+ 4 There isalfoanother final] kinde of Onion, ¢:alled by Lobel, Afcalonites Antiquorum Scallions ; this hath but {mall roots, growing many to; Zether : the leaues are like to Onions, but leffe. It feldomebeares eitherftalke, floure,or feed. Ic is vfed tobeeateninfallads, q The |