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Show HISTORIE OF PLANTS. THE SECOND°BOOKE OF THE 672 Thetemperature andvertues. Iristhonghtto be Speciesfontalis, ot Potamogeitonts,akinde of Ponde weede; and to hauethe famefaculties that belongvatoit. Of water Lillie. ofthe flowers and leaues be like: the flowers be yellowe,confifting onely offiue little fhore Jéaue fomething. ound; in the middeft ofwhich groweth a fall roundhead,or button, tharpe tow thepoint,compaffed about with many yellowe threds, in whic hywl fedes, greater then thofe ofthe other,and lefler then Wheat cornes withcertaine dents,as it were white both within and withourjofa {pungious ful Chap.282. 3 Nympheaalba minor... : The{mall white water Lillie, %& The kindes. 693 s Theleaues of the yellow water Lillie be like to the other,yet are they alittle longer.The talkes f : 4 Wymphea minor The fmall yelloy There be diuers forts of water Lilliesfome greater,and others leffer. 1 Nymphasalbas 2 Nymphea lute. YellowwaterLillie. ae y White waterLillie. % The dcferiptions % The defcription, He white water Lillie or Wernpharhath great round leaues,in fhape ofa buckles fat,and full ofiuice, {tanding vpon long round and {moothfooteftalks, full ot fubftance, which leaues do {wimor flote vponthe top of the water : vpoP theend ftallee growethone floweronely,ofcolour white , confifting of many little, long ,fat whereofbe manyyellow rhreds :afterthe flowerit bringeth forth J leaues,in the middeft a POWlittlebuckles ect et whichrife {mall tender ftalkes,(mooth an ] ern fofnany owen a . = like the laft deferibed; likewife on the other final ftalke flandeth a iewife fore io st8: - all the re{t of his kinde,of a fhining yellowcok leaues and athewater the wateras the others do: head,in whichlieth blackith glittering feede. The rootes be thicke,full of knots, black cewithi ofwhich gtoweth a multitude of ftrings, . by whichchyxisitist toe white and {pungiewithin,out bottome. V i ehhit all white water Lillie doteth| ikewife vponthe water, hauinga fineleroote, with fomie on ae thetet Fy o:from whic h rifeth vp many long, rounde,{mooth,andfoft fooreftalkes y-tte n 4 doa bri brineng foo foortl rrt V atthe endefaire broad rounde buckler leaues like ynto the precetr? on the othe saeSAPREC =hattiaca little : footeltalkes ftande pretie white flowers , confifting offiue {mall ; Thcfnallyelions eeYeorein the middle thereof. ise y sand dilberfing ie olNara = a little threddie roote,creeping in the bottome of the wa- 1 3 idehath thorssereth not from the other final ye AT ~leren, ce Pct pointed leaues, andthe whole plant is Vu Tavis |