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Rh temme growing from it. The talke is brownih and round at the bottome, and ometimes flat from the middle vpwards, three foote high or more, beet at certaine ditances with rondles or circles of many broad leaues, larger and broader for the mot part than any other of this kinde, and of a darke green colour: It hath two or three, and ometimes foure of thee rondles or circles of leaues, and bare without any leafe betweene; but aboue toward the tops of the talkes, it hath here and there ome leaues vpon it, but maller than any of the other leaues: at the toppe of the talke come forth many flowers, ometime three or foure core, thicke thrut, or confuedly et together, and not thinne or paredly one aboue another, as in the ler of this kinde of Mountaine Lilly. It hath been ometimes alo oberued in this kinde, that it hath borne manie flowers at three euerall paces of the talke, one aboue another, which hath made a goodly hew; each flower whereof is pendulous, hanging downe, and each leafe of the flower turning vp againe, being thicke or flehy, of a fine delayed purple colour, potted with many blackih or brownih pots, of a very pleasant weet ent, which maketh it the more acceptable: in the middle of the flower hangeth downe a tile or pointell, knobbed or buttoned at the end with ixe yellow chiues, tipt with looe pendents of an Orient red or Vermillion colour, which will eaily ticke like dut vpon any thing that toucheth them: the heads or eede veels are mall and round, with mall edges about them, wherein is contained flat browne eede like other Lillies, but leer. This root is very apt to encreae or et of, as we call it, wherby the plant eldome commeth to o great a head of flowers, but rieth vp with many talkes, and then carry fewer flowers. Of this kinde there is ometimes one found, that beareth flowers without any pots: the leaues whereof and talke likewie are paler, but not ele differing.

We haue alo ome other of this kind, the firt wherof hath his talke & leafe greener than the former, the talke is a little higher, but not bearing o thicke a head of flowers, although much more plentifull than the leer Mountaine Lilly, being altogether of a fine white colour, without any pots, or but very few, and that but ometimes alo: the pendents in the middle of this flower are not red, as the former, but yellow; the roote of this, and of the other two that follow, are of a pale yellow colour, the cloues or cales of them being brittle, and not cloely compact, yet o as if two, and ometimes three cales or cloues grew one vpon the head or vpperpart of another; which difference is a peciall note to know thee three kindes, from any other kinde of Mountaine Lilly, as in all old rootes that I haue eene, I haue oberued, as alfo in them that are reaonably well growne, but in the young rootes it is not yet o manifet.

The econd is like vnto the firt in all things, aue in this, that the flowers hereof are not altogether o white, and beides hath many reddih pots on the inide of the leaues of the flower, and the talke alo is not o greene but brownih.

A third ort there is of this kinde, whoe flowers are wholly of a delayed fleh colour, with many pots on the flowers, and this is the difference hereof from the former.

The leer Mountaine Lilly is o like in root vnto the greater that is firt decribed, that it is hard to ditinguih them aunder; but when this is prung vp out of the ground, which is a moneth after the firt: it alo carrieth his leaues in rondles about the talke, although not altogether o great nor o many. The flowers are more thinly et on the talkes one aboue another, with more ditance betweene each flower than the former, and are of a little deeper fleh colour or purple, potted in the ame manner. The buds Rh