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Show 166 Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. Lissa {poke of floures, which confifting offix leaues apiece fhew themfelues open in May; theyinco. lourare like the firft defcribed, as alfo in the greene ftreake on the lowerfide ofcach leafe. The feedis blacke, round, and containedin triangular heads, Therootis bulbous, long, andwhite, t + 4 This fourth, which is the Ormithogalum Hifpanicum minus of Clufius,hath a little white root which fends forth leaues like the commonone,but narrower, and deftitute ofthe whiteline wher. Liz t. Of the Hiftorie of Plants, ¥ 5 Ornithogalum luteum parvum, £6 Bulbs viifolius. The one leaued Bulbe, Dwarfe yellow Star ofBethlehem. with the otherare marked. Theftalke is fome two handfulls high,bearing at the topthereoffome feuenoreightfloures growing each aboueother, yet fo,as that they {eemeto make an vmbell; each of thefe floures hathfix leaues ofa whitith blew colour,withfo manywhite:chiues or threds, and a little blewith vmbone in the midft. This floures in Aprill. 5 This fifth firft fends vp one onely leafe two orthree inches long, narrow, and ofa whitith colour,and ofan acidetafte: nigh wheretorifeth vpa fmall ftalke fome inchor twohigh, hauing one ortwo leaues thereon, betweenewhich-eome forth {mall ftar-floures, yellowwithin, and of a greenifh purple without. The feed,whichis reddifh andfmall, is contained in triangularheads, The rootis white,round,and coueredwithan A th-coloured filme. 3 Ornithogalum Pannonicum. Star of Hungary. £ 4 Ornithozalum Hifpanicum minus, The leffer Spanith Star-floure. E 5 Ornithogalum majus J Arabicum, - The great Arabicke Star-floure; or the Lilly of Alexandria, asour Author calls} eeae , , of Cotton-gtaffe. inthe chapter This faire, but tenderplant, hath broad greene leaues comming froma largewhiteflat bottomed root, amongit whichrifethvpa ftalke fome cubit high, whofe top is garnifhed withfundry pretty large floures madeoffixe very white leaues , with a fhinine blackith head , ingirt with fixwhite threds ript with yellow. This tloures in May. 8 This,which is commonly called ornithg. alumfpicatum, hathlarge leaues and roots, and the flalke growes fome cubit or more high, wher- 6 Ithinke itnotamiffe, hereto to adde another {mall bulbous plant, which C/ufius calls Bulbus unigunee, Theone leaued Bulbe. This froma {mall rootfends forth one ruth-leafe offome foot in length, which about two inches abouetheearth, being fomewhatbroader than in the other pla ces, and guttered, fends fortha little ftalke fome three inches long, whofe top is fer with three little floures, each ftanding aboueother, aboutthe bigneffe here prefented ynto your view inthe figure: each ofthofe confiftethoffix very white leaues, and are not muchvnlike the floures ofthe gaffe of Parnaffus, but yet without leauesto fuftaine the floure, as it hath : fix white threds tipt withyellow ,anda three fquare head witha white pointall poffeffe the middeft of the floure;the oe is fomewhatlikethat of the floures of the Haw-thorne. It floures in the midi 0 une, 7, Hauing donewiththefe two {mall plants, I muft acquaint youwiththree orfoure Jargehs belonging alfotothis Claffis. The firft of thefe is that which Dodoneus calls ornithogalum maj and Clufius, Ornithogalum Arabicum : This by Lobe/and fomeothers is called Lilium Alexandrinhs on grow manyftarre-floures in {hape and colour like thofe ofthe ordinarie, but larger , and they begin to floure below, and flourevpwards to the top. Thereisa larger fort of this Spicatuss,whofe floures are not ftreaked. with greene on their backes. There isalfo a lefler, di ering from the firft of thefe onely in bigneffe. g This Neapolitan haththree or foure lone Ieaues nor much valike thofe of the Hyacinths, but narrower, the ftalke is pretty thicke , fome foot high, and hath vfually growing theron fome fiue orfix floures hanging one way, thoughtheir flalkes growalternately out of eachfide of the maine ftemme, Thefe floures are compofed of fix leaues, being about an inch long, and fome Vim ofan inch broad, white within, and of an Ath-coloured greene without,with white edges, the |