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Show ain. Ofthe Hiftorie of Plants. “Corona lmperialis. The Crowne Imperiall.” “> Edda Corona Imperialis duplici corona, The double Crowne Imperial], Lien Of ‘the Hiftorie of Plants. 203 is containedflat-feeds, toushand limmer, of the colour ofMace. ‘The wholelplant as well foots as flouités, do favour or finellvety likea Pox, As the plant groweth-old, {6 doth itwax rieh; brin- ging forth’a Crowne of flutes among the vppermoft steene leaties;which'foime’ make afeeond kinde, although in truth they are but one andthe felfe fame, whichin time is thought to'Stow tow triplecrowne,which hapneth by the age of the roor, and fertilitie of the foile,whofe figure or tipe Thatiethought good to adioyne with that pi@ure alfo whichin the tithe of hig ififancie it‘had, E The Place: Thisplantlikewife hath been brought from Conftantinople‘amone ft otlier bulbous roots/and made Denizonsin our Londongardens,whereofI haue great plenty, G The Time. It floureth in Aprill; and fometimesin March, whenas the weatheris warme and pleafant. The feed is ripein Tune. q The Names, This rare & ftrange Plantis called in Latine,Corowa Imperialis,and Lilium By=amtinum:the Turks doe call it Cavalelale,and Tufai, And as diuers hauefent into thefe parts ofthefe roots at fan- dry times, fo haue they likewife fent themby fundry names; fome by thename Twat; others,Ton- fi, and Tuyfchiachi, ad Vikewife Turfaniand Turfanda. + Clufius, and that not without good rea- fon, iadgeth this tobe the Hemerocallis of Dioftorides, mentioned lb, 3+ C4p.120. - @ The Nature andV ertues. Thevertue of this admirable plamt is not yet knowne yneither.his faculties or temperature in working. t Tfthis bethe Hemerocallis of Diofcorides,you may finde the vertues thereofpecified as thevmight haue beene here: yer we at this day hauc no knowledge ofthe phyficall pag- 99. ofthis Worke; where in my iudgementthey arenotfo ficly placed operation of either of thofe plants mentioned in thar Place, or of this treated ofin this chapter. Cuar.109, Of Dogs Tooth: q] The Defcription, Corona Imperialis cum [emine? Crowne Imperiall with the feed. r heads downward asit were bels’ in colout it is yellowith ; orto giue youthe truecolour, which bywords otherwife cannotbe exprefled,if youlay fap berries im-ftcepe in fairewaterfor the {pace oftwo houres,and mix a little Saffron withthar infufion,and lay it vpon paper, it fheweth the perfed colour to limne or illumine:the floure withall. The backfideofthe faid floure is ftreaked with purplith lines , which doth greatly fer forth the beauty thereof. Inthe bottome ofeach ofthefe bells there is pleced fix drops ofmoft cleere thining fiveet water,in taft like fugar,refembling in shew faire Orient pearles,, the which drops if you take away, there do immediately p- peare the like: notwithftanding ifthey maybe fuffered to ftand ftill in the floure according to his ownenature, they wil ne uerfall away, no not if you ftrike the plant vatill itbe broken. Amongft thefe drops there ftandeth outa certaine peftell,as alfo fundryfmal chiues tipped with{mall pe dants like thofe of the Lilly; aboue the whole floures there growes a tuft of greet! leaueslike thofe vpon the ftalke,but fmaller, After the foures be faded ,, there 10! lowcodsorfeed-veffels fix {juare,w! Here hathnot long fince beene found out a goodly bulbous rooted plant, and termed Satyrion, whichwas fuppofed tobe the true Satyrion of Diofcorides, afterthat it was cherifhed, and the vertues thereof found out by the ftudious{archers ofnature. Little difference hath bin found betwixt that plant of Diofcorides atid this Dens caninus, except in the colour, which (as you know) doth commonly vary according to the diuerfitie ofplaceswhetethey grow, as it falleth out in Squilla, Onions, and the other kindes of bulbous plants. It hath mofteomm only twoleaues, very feldomethree ; whichleafe in thapeis very like to 4/iumVrfinwm, or Ramfons, thoughfarre lefley ‘The Ieaues turne downeto the groundward ; the ftalke is tendér and-fexibl e like to Cyclamenso t Sow-bread, about an handfull high, bare and without leaues to theroot, The proportion ofthe floureis like that ofSaffron-or the Lilly floure, full of ftreantes of a purplith whitecolour. The rootis bigge, and like vntoa date, with fomefibres growing fromit; faid rootis a fmall flat halfe round bulbe adioyning,like vnto Gladiolus, or Corn-flag. vnto the 2 The fecond kinde is farre greater and larger thanthe firft, inbulbe,ftalke,leaues, floure,and cod, Ityeeldeth two leaues for the moft part, which do clofe one within another, andat thefirft they doe hidethe floure (forfo long as itbrings not out his floure) it feemes to haue but one leafe like the Tulipa’s, and like theLillies, though fhorter, and for themoft part broader. which it beareth ate fpotted with many great {pots ofa darke purple colour , and narrow ‘below, butbylittle and little toward the topwaxbroad, and after that'growtobe fharpe pointed,in form fomewhat neere wherefore I haue placed it and his kindes next vnto thieLillies, before the kinds OFovché xflones-Theleaues Ramfons, but thicker and more oleous. When the leaues be wide opened the floure fheweth it felfe vponhis long weake naked ftalke, bowing toward the earth-ward , which floure confifteth of fix very long leanes of a fine delayed parple colour, which with the heat of the Sunne openethit felfe, and bendeth his leaues backe againe after the manner of the Cyclamen floure, within whichthere are fix purple chiues, and a white three forked ftile or peftell. This floure is ofpo pleafant fmell, but commendable for the beauty :when the floure is faded , there fucceedeth a three fquare huskeorhead, whereinare the feeds, whichare verylike them of Lewcaiun butbofum precox. but longer,flendercr,and ofa yellow.colour.. Therootis long, thicker below ’naboue,fetwith manywhite fibres, waxing very tendet in the vpper part, hauing one.or more “icts, Or young fhoots, from whichthe ftalkearifeth outofthe ground (as hathbeen faid )brittng forth twoIeaues,and not three, or onely one, faue whenit willnot floure. a The |
