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Show The Garden of pleafant Flowers. Lhe Gardenof pleafant blowers. ee The Place. - 153 Se night, and neuer opencthagaine,but perifheth, andithen hangeth downehisheadagaine ;the greenc huske of three leaues,clofingit {elfe-againe into the forme ofa head but Breater, as itwas before, the middle ymbohegrowing to bee the feedé veflell. Sauoye., een whe nce diver, ‘phe firft groweth onthe Hils neare vntobroug htit into thefe parts, whereinis contained {mall , blackith, long feedes'Seldome fhall any man feeaboue Thefecond camevp in my Garden,from the feedereceiued out of Italy, whereby it ftandeth in'flowring a longtime, -before all the heads haue giteii out their allured with the beauty of the flower, haue “The others grow in Spaine, France, &c one , ortwo atthe moft of thefe flowers blowneopen at one:time vpon the falke flowers. if ThePlace, The Time. This plantgtowethin fome parts ofVirginia,and wasdeliuered tolohn Tradefeant.):’ The vnbranched Spider-wort moft comimonly flowteth before all the other, and the branched amoneth afterit : the othef two about onetime, The Time. that is, towards the end of May, and not much afterthe ynbranched kinde, Tt fowreth from the end ofMayvntillTuly if it haue had greene leaues all she Winter, or otherwife; vntill the Winter. checke his luxurioufnefle. The Names. The Names, - The fir (as I faid before) hath beene taken to bea white Lilliafphodill, and called Lilia/phedelusflore albo , but Clufius hath moreproperly entitu- Vntothis plant I confeffe |firft impofed the name, by cenfidering duely led ita Phalanginm, and from the placeof his originall, gave him hisother denomination,andfois called ofmoft,as is fer downe in thetirtle. The other haueno other namesthen are expreifed in their titles, but only that Cordus calleth them Lil/éago ; and Dodonaus, lit. 4. hiit.plant. would allthe partsthereof, which vntill fome can finde a more proper, Idefire may ftill continue, and to-calhic Epbemernem Virginianum Tradefcants, ohn Tradefcante's Spider-wortof Virginia,or, Phalangium Epbemerum Virginiaum; The foone fading or Day Spidet-wort of Virginia. : makethe branched kindeto bee 440/ alserwm Pling , but without anygood ground. The Vertues; The Vertues. There hath not beeneanytryall madeofthe properties fince weé hadit, Thenames Phalangiam and Phalangites were impofed on thefe plants, becaufe they were foundeffectual], to cure the poyfon of that kindeofSpi ‘nor doe we know whetherthe Indians haue any.vfethereof, der,called Phalangiam, as alfo of Scorpionsand other Serpents. Weedot not know,that any Phyfitian hath vfed themto anyfuch, or any other put pofein our dayes. CUAR Vin 5. Phalangiam Epbemerum Virginiannms Ioannis Tradefcant. ty Colchicum. MedoweSaffron, The foon fading Spider-wortofVirginia, or Tradefcant his Spider-wort. This Spider-wortis oflate knowledge, and for it the Chriftian world is indebted vnto that painfull induftrious fearcher, and louerof all natures varieties, lohn Trade {cant (fometimes belonging to the right Honourable Lord Robert Earle ofSalisbury, Lord Treafurer ofEngland in histime, and then ynto the right Honourable the Lord Wottonat Canterbury in Kent, and laftly vnto the late Duke of Buckingham) who firft receiuedit ofa friend, that broughtit out of Virginia, thinking itto bee the Silkt O returnetothereft ofthe bulbous and tuberous rooted plants , chat remaine to beeentreated of, the Co/chica or MedoweSaffronsarefirft to bee handled, whereofthefe later dayes hane found out more varieties, then formerly were knowne; fomeflowringinthe Spring., butthe moftin Autumne, and tome bearing double, but the greateft part fingle flowers : whereof euery one in their order, and ; firtt of our owne Country kindes. Graffe that groweth there, and hath imparted hereof, as ofmany other things,bothto meand others ; the defcription whereofis. as followeth: From aftringie roote, creeping farre vnder ground, and rifing vp againein may 1. Colchicums Anglicum album, The white Englifh MedoweSaffron. bottome where they compaffe the ftalke, and finaller and fmallet to the end: attht vpperioynt, which is the toppeof the ftalke,there ftand two orthreefuch like leaues but fimaller, from among which breaketh outa dozen, fixteene, or twenty , or molt round green heads, hanging downetheir heads bylittle foot-{talkes, which when the flower beginneth toblow open, groweth longer, and ftandeth vpright, hauing three ~ ‘Itis commonto all the MedoweSaffrons, except that of the Spring, and.one other, to beare their flowers alone in Autumneorlater,without any green leaues. with them, and afterwards in February,their greene leaues': Sothat I fhall nor needeto make manie defcriptions, but to fhewyouthe differences that confift in the leaues, and colours of the flowers ; and briefly to paffe (after Lhaue giuen you a full defcription of the firft) from one vnto another, touching onely thofe things that are note worthy. The white Englifh MedoweSaffron then doth beare in Autumne three or foure flowersat the moft,ftandingfeuerally vpon weake foote-ftalkes, a fingers length or more aboue theground, made of fix white leaues, fomewhat long and narrow, and not folargeas moft of the other kindes, with fome threeds or chiuesin the middle, like yntothe {mall head in the middle,clofely fet about withfix reddi(h,hairy,or feathered threc¢s effeé : after the flowersare pattand gone, the leaues doc not prefently follow, but the rooteremainethin the ground without fhew of leafe aboue ground, moft, part of places , {pringeth vp diuers heads of long folded leaues, of a grayifh ouer-worlt greene colour, two or three forthe moft part together, and notabouc,com paifing ont another atthe bottome, and abiding greenein many places all the Winter; othet where perifhing , and rifing anewin the Spring, which leauesrife vp with the gred round ftalke, being fer thereonat the ioynts , viually but one ataioyne, broadattht, {mall pale greene leaues for a huske,and three other leaues within them for the fowth which lay themfelues open flat, of adeepe blew purple colour, having an ymbont! tipt with yellow pendents : this hower opencthit felfein the day,& fhucteth viually « ae night, Saffron flowers of the Spring, wherein thereis ho colour of Saffron, or vertueto, that the Winter, and then ia February there {pring vp three or foure large and long prcsn ; caues, |