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Show 196 List Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. The fame ftamped wrth honey cureth the wou ndedfinewes and members out ofioynt. It takes away the morphew, wrinkles, and deformitie ofthe face. Stampedwith Vineger,the leaues of Henbane,and wheat meale, itremoucth hot fwellings of E D___ the ftones, the yard,and matrix. few The roots boyled in Wine(faith Pliny) caufeth the cornes of thefeet to fall away within dayes,with remouing the medicine vntill it hauewrought his effec. Beingdrunke in honied water, they driue out by fiege vnprofitable bloud. G FE Cuar. 104. Of Mountaine Liles. which rifeth vp 2 ftalke, fometimes twoor three, according to the age of the plant; whefeofthemiddle ftalke commonly turneth from his roundneffeinto a flat.forme , as thofe of thewhite Lilly of Conftantinople,. Vpon thefeftalkes do growfaire leaues of a blackifh greene colour,in roundlésiand {paces as the leaues ofWoodroofe, not vnlike to the leaues of white Lil. lie, bur fmaller at the top ofthe ftalkes. The floures be in numberinfinite, or at the leaft hard to becounted,very thicke fet orthruft together, ofan ouetworne purple,fpotted on the infide with many fmall {pecks of the colourofrufty iron, ‘The whole floure doth turneit felfe backewardat fuch timeas the Sunnehath caft his beames'vponit, like vnto the Tulipaor Turkes Cap,as the Lilly or Martagon of Conftantinople doth’; from the middle whereof doe come forth tendef = as : Sa = == a —— pointalls with fmall dangling pendants hangingthereat, ofthe colour the floure is {potted with, | — : © Lilinws montanum majus. The great mountaine Lilly: 2 The {mall mountaineLillyis very like vnto the. former in root, leafe,ftalke,and floures :dif. fering in thefe points , The whole plant is leffer, theftalke neuer leaueth his round forme,and bea- reth fewerfloures. + There are twoorthree more varietiesofthefe plants mentioned byC/ufas ; the oneof this fefler kinde, with floures on the outfide ofa fleth colour, and on the infide white, ‘with blackith {pots ; as alfo another wholly whitewithout fpots. The third varietie is like the firft, bur differs in that the floures blowlater, and fmell fweet. Thefe plants growinthe woody mountaines of Styria and Hungarie,andalfo in fuchlike places onthe North of Francfort,vpon the Wicene. + The fmall fort [haue had many yeares growing in my garden; but the greater I haue nor had till of late,giuen mebymylouing friend M. Lames Garret Apothecarie of London. @] The Time. times fooner. He great mountaine Lilly hath acloued bulbe orfealy root like tothofe of the Red Lilly; yellow of colour,very {mallin refpeé of the greatnefle ofthe plant : Fromthe ~~ 197 j —_ Lillies of the mountaine floure at fuch time as the common white Lilly doth,and fome- q The Defiription. ven elo TT ee7 rere Of the Hiftory of Plants. qy The Names. The great mountaine Lilly is called ofTabernamontanus,Lilinm Saracenicum,receiued by Mafter Garret aforefaid fromLifle in Flanders, by thename of ttartagon Imperiale : of fome,Lilsum Sara cenicummas : It is Hemerocallisflore rubello, of Lobel. Thefmall mountaineLillyis called in Latine, Lilium montanum, and Lilium fylueftre : of Dodones, Hemerocallis : of others, Martagon : but neithertruly , for that there is ofeither, other Plants properly called by the fame names. In high Dutchitis called Goldtourts, from the yellowneffe ofthe roots : inlow Dutch, Lilikens ban Galuaries s in Spanith, Lire Amarillo - in French, Lys Sauvage : inEnglifh, Mountaine Lilly. @| The Nature and Vertues. There hath not beeneanythingleft in writing either of the nature or vertues of thefe plants : notwith{tanding we may deeme, that God which gaue them fuch feemely and beautifull fhape, hath notleft them without their peculiar vertues; the finding out whereofwe leane to the learned and induftrious Searcher of Nature. 2 Lilium montanum minus. f Small MountaineLilly: Cuar.105. Of the Red Lillie of (onftantinople. 1 Lilium Bixantinum. The red Lilly of Conftantinople. £ 2 Lilium ByXantinumflo. purpurofanguineo, The Byzantine purplifh fanguine-coloured Lilly. |