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Show The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, like vnto the former, but fimaller : the rootes are many {mall ftrings , di(pextingcheaw feluesin the ground. E _ ps Elleborine minor flore purpurante, 7 Cwrar-LXXXIIIL The fmall or wilde white Ellebor with blufh flowers. Lilith Connaliinns. Lilly Connally: The leaues ofthis kinde are like vnto the laft defcribed , but fomewhat narrower: the ftalkes and flowers are alike, but {maller allo, and of a pale purplith orblah Co. jour,Which caufeth the difference. “in face atid properties! bute it fhouldlofeall place,let itkeepethis. Irisof twoforts, differing chiefly in the cdlour ofthe fowers, the one being white; and the The Place. The firft growerhin very many places of Germany, and in other Coun. triesalfo. It groweth likewifein Lancafhire, neare vpon the borderof Yorkefhire, ina wood or place called the Helkes, whichis three miles from Ingleborough, the higheft Hill in England, and notfarre from Ingleton,as Tam efiformed by a courteous Gentlcwoman, a great louer of thele dee lights, called Miftris Thomafin Tunftall, who dwellethat Bull-banke neare Horuby Caftlé in thiofe parts, and who hath often fent mee vpthe rootesto London,which haue bornefaire flowersin my Garden. Thefe. cond groweth in manyplaces of England,and with the fame Gentlewomin alfo before remembred, who fent me one plant ofthis kinde with the other The laft hauenot yet knowne to growe in England; but no doubt many things doe lye hid, and not obferued, which in time may beedifcoueredif our Country Gentlemen and women, and others, in their {eucrall places wherethey dwell, would be more carefulland diligent, and be aduentifed either by themfelues, or by others capable and fit to be imployed, as occafion and time mightferue, to finde out fuch plants as growein any the cite cuits or limits oftheir habitations, or in theirtranels ,as their pleafures or affaires leade them. And becaufe ignoranceis the chiefe caufe ofneglet ofmanyrare things, which happen totheir view at fometimes , whichare not tobe feeneagaine peraduenture, or not in many yearesafter, I would heartily advifeall men of meanes,to be ftirred vp to bendtheir mindes,and {pend a little more time and trauell in thefe delights of herbes and flowers, thet they haue formerly done, which arenot oncly harmleffe burpleali table ia their tite, and profitable in their vfe. And ifany would be better enformed,and certified of fuchthings they know not, I would be willing and ready to mybeft skill to aduertife them, that fhall fend anything ypto me where I dwellin London. Thus farre I haue digreffed from the mattet 2mony andyet not without fome good vfe hope, that others may make other reddithy; 2s fall be fliewed it their deferiptions following, 1. Lilium Connallinmflore albo. The white Lilly Conually. The white ConualloiMay Lilly, hath three or foure leauesrifing togetherfroms and theroote, one enclofed within another, each whereof when it is openis long broad,ofagrayill fhining green¢ colour, fomewhat refembling the leaues'6fthe for-. mer wilde Neefewort, at the fide'whereof, atid fometime from the thiddleof them, rifeth vp a {mall fhort ‘naked foote-ftalke , ‘an hand breadth ‘high’or fomewhattiore? bearing at the toppe one aboue another niahyfiiall white flowers, like little hollow bottles with open mouths , nicked or cut into fiue or fix notches , turning all downe-! and comfore wards one way, or onone fide ofthe ftalke, ofa very ftrong fweete ent, Ai para table for the memoryand fenfes, which turnic into {mall red berries,like vntocréeping gus, wherein is contairied hard white feede : the rootes runhe vader ground,’ 1903 every way, confifting of manyfnrall whitéftrings OG 2. Lilium Conwalliomflore rabente, MayLillies with red flowers. rHut This other MayLilly differeth neither in roote,leafe,nor formeof flowerfrom being ; colour red pale fine ofa is which ower, ofthe colour the in before, but onely inmy iudgementnot altogether fo fweet as the formers The Place. ‘The otheris The firftgroweth aboundantly in many places ofEngland, a ftranger,and groweth only inthe Gardens of thofe that are curious louers of rarities. The Time. They both flower in May, and the berries are ripe in Augufts The Names. The Time. The twofirft flowerearlier then the laft, and both the firft about on time, thatis, inthe end of Aprill end ofMay;orin Tune, TT temenibrance ofthe Conuall Lilly: fpoken ofin the precedent Chraprer} hath caufed me to infertthefe plantsamongtheteft, although differing beth inni i prill, or beginning of May, ‘Thelaft inthe The Names. but Lilium Conaalinm,ala; The Latines hane no other name for this plant hraftus; and othough fome would haueit to be Lilinm vernam of Theopto be Calionymnse thit thinke r Gefne r. Autho fame the thers Ocnanthe of non lethale: but they Lonicerus to be Cacalis, and Fuchfiustobe Ephemeram Lilly Conually, May fl Engli in it e call ken.W mifta part moft the for all arc Lilly, and of fome Liriconfancic. Thefirltis called Ekeborive recentiorum maiier, and Calceolus Marie: ie: 0 08 — thoughtto be Co/mo/andales,becauleit is Sandaliems, In Englifhwe it our Ladies Slipper,after the Dutchname, The other twoleflet kinds aue their names in theirtitles: I haue thoughtit fit to adde the title offal white Ellebors vnto thefe, for the forme fakegas is before {aid. The Vertues. The Vertues. thofethingsthat help The flowers of the white kindé ate often vfed with to Apopleéticke perfons. toftrengthen the memory , andto procure eafe g an oyle of the flowers Camerarius fetteth downe the manner of makin paines of the Goute; and he hereof, which he faith is very effeGuall to eafet thus: Hauing filled a glafle is hich rdlyw outwa vfed be es,to fuch like difeaf hs fpaceinan monet with the fowers, and being wel! ftopped, ferit fora , to'vie by it fer re, edclea drayn being after aad hill, Ants There is novfe ofthefein Phyficke in our dayesthat I know, Cat Gg Crate |