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Show $6 ST aeT IO Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. 50 Lis. q The defcription. z pm common Floute'de-luce hath long and Jarge flaggy leaues like the blade of a {word, with two edges, amongit which {pring vp fmoothandplaineftalkes. two foot long, bearing floures toward the top, compact of fix leaues ioyned together, whereof three that ftand vpright are bent inward one toward another ; and in thofe leaues that hang downward there are certaine rough orhairie welts, growingor rifing from the nether partofthelea fe vpward, al- moft ofa yellowcolour. The roots be thicke,long, and knobby, with manyhairy threds hanging thereat. 2 Thewatet Floure dé-luce, or Waterflag; or Baftard Acorws, is like vnto the garden Floure de-luce in roots, leaues, and ftalkes, but the leaues are muchlonger, fometimes ofthe height of fourecubits, and altogether narrower. Thefloureis of a perfec yellow colour, and the Root knobbylike the other ; but being cut;itfeemeth to be of the colourof raw flefh. x Irssvulearis. 2 Iris paluftris lutea. Water-flags, or Floure de-luce, Floure de-luce, Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lea. | Water flags, Baftard Eloure de-luce, or Water Flouré de-luce: and in the Nortlrthey call them Seggs. @ the nature. 1 Theroots ofthe Floure de-luce beingas yet fi ¢ h and greene, andfull ofjuyce, are hot al- moft in the fourth degree. Thedried roots are hotand dryin thethird degree,burning thethroat and mouthoffuchas taftethem. ofan aftringent » Thebaftard Floure de-lucehis root is cold anddry in the third degree,and : or binding facultic. q The vertues. of Rofe Theroot of the commonFloure de-lucecleane wathed, and ftampedwith a few drops take water, andlaid plaifter-wife vpon the face of man or woman, doth in.two dayes at the moft awaythe blackneffe or blewneffe of anyftrokeor brufe: fo that if theskinne of the fame woman oranyother perfon bevery tender anddelicate, it fhall be needful that ye lay a piece offilke, fin- dall, ora piece of fine laune betweene the plaifter and the skinne ; for otherwife in fuch tender bodies it often caufeth heateand inflammation. choler, but moft The iuyce ofthe fame doth not onely mightily and vehemently drawforth haue the Dropthat them purgationfor andfingular fpeciall andisa efpeciallywatery humors, his heate. fie, if it be drunke in whay or fome « other liquor that may fomewhat temper andalay with The dry roots attenuate or make thinne thicke and tough humouts, which are hardly and difficultie purged away. in: Theyare good. in a loch or licking medicine for fhortneffe of breath,an old cough, andall firmities of the cheft whichrife hereupon. or They remedie thofe that haueeuill fpleenes; andthofe that are troubled with convulfions cramps,bitin offerpents, and che running ofthe reines, being drunke with vinegre,as faith Dio(oorides , and drunke with wineit bringeth downe the monethlycourfes of women. The decogionis good in womensbaths, for it mollifieth and openeth the matrix, Being boyled veryfoft,and laid to plaifter-wife it mollifieth or foftneth the kings euil,andold ; + The roots of our ordinaryflags are not(as before is delitrered) cold anddryin the thitd-degree, nor yet inthe fecond, as Dodoneus aifirmes ; but hot and dry, and that at the leaft in thefe- hardfwellings. cond degree,as any that throughly taftes them will confefle. Neither are thefaculties and vfe(as fome wouldperfuiade vs) to be neglected; foras Pena and'Zobell afirme, though it haue no fmell, nor great heat,yet by reafon ofother facultiesit is nitichto bepreferred before the Galanga major, orforreigne Acors of fhops,in many difeafes ; for it imparts more heateand ftrength tothe itomacke and neighbouring parts thanthe other,which rather preyes vponand diffipates the innate in heate and implantedftrength of thofe parts, It bindes,ftrengthens, and condenteés :it is good bloudyflixes, andftayes the Courfes. ¢ Cuar. 40. OfFloure de-luce ofFlorence. q| Thedefiription. _ | The place. The Water Floured, poet Peas flag profpereth well in moift medows, and in the borders and brinks of rivers »ponds, ponds and ftandinglakes. g . And Qalthoughitb ¢a water plant of nature, yet : being plantedir 1 gardens it profperethwell. , = sae The names Floure de-luce is called i a : ; *;Dy which nameit is alfo called of the Latines Radix Marica, or rather Ra- portalacclinGrewate ndsveteas cong hey 3 g J ay leri rLuer Naron.by ich the e€ bef whick Whereupo fto redo edo grow be and greateft 8 /here pon 3 grow. der in his Treacles commendeth it thus : dix Naronica, ofth \ Which may thus be Englithed: Whi tas 3 ji Iridem quam warnaluit abu Drilon, 1, é Naroni N sST ripa. : greenetoward the top,and of 2 fltining purple colour toward the bortome, euen tothe ground: among ft whichrifeth vp a ftalk¢ of foure foot high, as myfelfe did meafure oft times in my gat- ce Iris; which Drilox water feeds AndNarons bankes withother weeds. . HeFloute de-luce of Florence; whofe roots in fhops and generally euery where ate calledsreos, or Orice (whercof fiveet waters,fiveet pouders, andfuch like are made) is altogetherlikevntothe commonFloure de-luce, fauing that the flowers of the Ireos is ofawhite colourjand thetoots exceeding fiveet offmell,and the otherofno{mell at all. 2 The white Floure, deuce is like vnto the Florentine Floure de-luce in roots, laggy leaues, and ftalkes but they differ in that, that this Jrhathhis flower ofa bleake white colour declining toyellownefle; and the roots haue notany{inell at all, but the other is very fweet, as wehaue‘faid. 3 The great Flourede-luce of Dalmatiahath leaves much broader, thicker,and more elofes ly compact together thagany oftheother, andfet in orderlike wings or the fins ofa Whale fith, > alians,Gieli o aXurro Societal Spani ic P h, > Lilio Cardén sar’ eno o «in 71glt0 Dutc axur o h shite :: in in ,Spanit :=The Germanes,Bilget « i Frenc re h, Flambe p t t, Thefecondis c alled in Latine, L ; 2 Iris. ; palufiris ous lutea,Pfendoacorus,and Acorns paluftris : in Englith, Water- den : whereupon doth growfaire largé floures of a light blew, or as wetermeit,a watchet colours floure. The feeds are contained in The floures do fmell exceeding, fweet, much like the Orenge the former. The root hath no like feeds manyflat together packed are wherein , cods {quare tall. t Ire |
