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Show TheGardin ofpleafantFlowers. The Garden ofpleafant Flowers. Martagon Conftantizopelitanum maculatumr, The red {potted Martagon of Conftantinople. Cnrar. IV; 1. Adartagin Pomaponeum fine Lilium rubrum precex, vel Lilium Maccdonicums, The early red Martagon, or Martagon Pompony. S in the former Chapterwedefcribed vnto youfuch Lillies whofe flowers bes A pendulous, turnetheir leaues backeagaine , and haue their greene leaues, We hiaueanother ofthis kinde,that groweth fomewhatgreater anid higher, witha larger Hoyer, and ofa deepercolour, {pottedwith divers blacke {potsot ftrakes and lines, as isto be ene in the MountaineLillies , and in fome other hercafter to bedefcribed,, but is hotfo inthe former ofthis kinde, whichhathnoflewof{potsatall. The whole plantasit is rare, fo it is ofmuch more beauty then the former, fet by {paces abouttheftalke : fo inthis wee will fet downe thofe forts, whick carrytheir greene leaues more fparfedly,andall along the ftalke , their flowers hang. ing downe,andturning vp againeas the former, and begin with that whichis of greai teft beauty, or at leaft ofmoft rarity. xmartagn |. This tare Martagon hatha fealy root clofely compact, with broader and thinner Pompontums {calesthan others , in time growing very great, and of amore deepe yellow olour arnt{20 ctyen the former, fiom whence doth {pring vp around greene ftalkein fome plants,and ; flat in othets,two or three foote high, bearing anumberoffmall , long, and narrow greeneleaues, very likevnto the leaues ofPinkes,but greener,fet very thicke together, and without orderabouttheftalke, vp almoft vnto the toppe, andJeffer by degrees vpwards, where ftand manyflowers, according to the ageoftheplant, and thriuingin the place where it growcth ; in thofe that are young, buta few, and more {parfedly, andin others that are old many more, and thickerfet: for I haue reckoned threcfcore flowers and more , growing thicke together on one plantwithmee.andanhundred flowers on another ; thefe flowers are of a pale or yellowith red colour, and not fo deep red as thered Martagon ofConftantinople,hereafter fet down,norfully fo large: yct ofthe famefafhion, thatis, enery flower hanging downe,and turningvphis leaues againe. Itisnotfoplentifull in bearing offeedeas the otherLillies, but whenit doth, it differeth not but in being leffe, a. Marcos = Thereis another, whofegreene leaues are not fothicke fet onthe ftalke, butelfe canine differeth not bur in fowring a fortnightlater. mur. Thereis anotheralfo of this kind,{olike vnto the formerin root,ftalk, fower,&ma3.a ner of growing,thatthe difference is hardly difcerned ; but confifteth chic fly in thefe latifelis pree WO points: Firft,thatthe leaues ofthis are little broader and fhorter thenthe former; ex. and {econdly,that it beareth his fowers a fortnight earlierthanthefirt. In the colout or forme of the flower, there can no difference bee difcerned > Nor(as I faid)in anyo- therthing. All thefe Lillies doe {pring very lateoutofthe ground, euen as the yellow Martagons doe, but are fooner in flower then arly others. Yoetgs Afourthkindehereof hath oflatebeerknowneto vs,whofe leaues are broader and fare phencee. fhorter thenthelaft, andthe flowers of a palerred, tending to yellow, of fome cal- leda golden red colour: but fowreth notfo early asthey. 2, Lilia rubrum Byzantinum,fine Martagon Cinflsntin opolitasim. The red Martagon of Conftantinople, 1. Thered Martagon ofConftantinopleis become fo common éuer y where, and {6 well knownc toalllouers ofthefe delights, that I fhall feeme vnto them to loferime tobeftow many lines Vponit ; yet becaufeit is {6 faire a lower > and was atthefirft fo highly efteemed , it deferueth his place and commendati the plenty hath not madeit dainty. Itrifeth outofthe ons » howfoeuer encreafing ground early in the {pring, before manyotherLillies, froma great thicke yellow fcaly reot, bearing around brower nih g ftalke e , befet e with many- Tel fair a | caues confufedly thereon , but not fo ( broad ue : heto ' ppe whereofftanddone, two,orthree, or more : ers, vpon long footeftalkes , which hang downethe ir heads, andturnevptheit leaue s againe soimelfi , ofoy a= an excellent e red a crimf colour,and fometime imes s paler p , hauies ng a long > comp affed withfixe whitith chines, tipt with loofe yellow nden f areaf poodho heads fenttb ut fomewhatfaint. life vato , ts,o theonabl creis i It likew ikewiife fe beare bea th feede j ee it Qe Hartagon Pannonicum,fineExoticum flarefpadicess “The bright red Martagon ofHungatie, ~ Alchoughthis MartagonorLilly bee of another Countrey , yet by reafon of the neereneffe both in leafeand flower vatothé former, may morefitly be placed next vnto them, then in any otherplace. It hath his roote very like the other, butthe leaues are fomewhatlarger,,.and more {parfedly fet.vponthe ftalke, elfenoymuchvnlike : the flowers bend downe, and turne yp their leaues againe, butfomewhatlarger, and ofabrightred, tending toan Orenge colour, that is, Jomewhat yellowith,and not crimfon,like the other, _ 3. Martagan Lutenmpunctate. The Yellow {ported Martagons, 1. This Yellow Martagon hathagreat {caly. or cloued, roote, and yellow,like vnto allthefe forts ofturning Lillies, from, whence, {pringeth.vp.a round greene ftrong ; ftalke, three foote high, at the,leaft, ;confufedly, fer, with narrow long greene leaues, white on thé edges.vp.to the very-toppe.thereof-almoft., /hauing diners, owerson the head, turning vp againe asthe former doe, ofafaint yellowith, or grcenith yellow coJour, with many blacke{pots or ftrakes about the middlziofthe leafeiof every flower; and a forked pointell, with fixe chines. aboutit, tipt with,reddith pendents, ofa heauic ftrong {mell, notvery pleafantto many. It bearethfeedevery. plentifully , in great heads,like vnto the other formerLillies, buta little paler. 2, Martagon Luteum son maculatam. The Yellow Martagon without{pots, The otheryellow Martagondifferethin no other thing from the former,but onely thatic hath no fpotsatall vpon any ofthe leauts:of thie flowers; agreeing with the former, in colour, forme, height, andall things elfe. 3. Aartagen Lateamfertinam, The late flowring. yellow. Mastagon. E Theres yet.another yellow. Mastagon, that hath nojother-differehcethen thetime of his flowring, whichis not vntidl July 3! valefle in this; tliat the flowet lis of a deeper yellow colour. The Place: The knowledge ofthe firtt Kindks'of thefeety Martavonshath come from Italy, from whence they, Haubin fént inro the Low-Countries,and to vs,and, as it fecmeth by the name,whereby they hate bin fent by fomeinto thefeparts, his origitalt fhould be'from the mountaines in Macedonia.” Thefecond fort is furfficiently knowné by his, fame, beitig firft broughe from Conftantinopte , his natural place being not farte from thence, as it islikely. Burthe Héxtfore of this, fecond kifde, doth plainly tellvs his place of bitth to béthe mountdines-of Panndnia Ot Hungaries o unct The third kindes grow on the, Pyren#an mountainés,-v here they -haue been fearchedoat, and found by-diuers loucts ofplants,as alfoin the King: dome of Naples. 2, Martage eS ; sei rar — The |