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S in the former Chapter we decribed vnto you uch Lillies, whoe flowers being pendulous, turne their leaues backe againe, and haue their greene leaues, et by paces about the talke: o in this wee will et downe thoe orts, which carry their greene leaues more paredly, and all along the talke, their flowers hanging downe, and turning vp againe as the former, and begin with that which is of greatet beauty, or at leat of mot rarity.

1. This rare Martagon hath a caly root cloely compact, with broader and thinner cales than others, in time growing very great, and of a more deepe yellow colour then the former, from whence doth pring vp a round greene talke in ome plants, and flat in others, two or three foote high, bearing a number of mall, long, and narrow greene leaues, very like vnto the leaues of Pinkes, but greener, et very thicke together, and without order about the talke, vp almot vnto the toppe, and leer by degrees vpwards, where tand many flowers, according to the age of the plant, and thriuing in the place where it groweth; in thoe that are young, but a few, and more paredly, and in others that are old many more, and thicker et: for I haue reckoned threecore flowers and more, growing thicke together on one plant with mee, and an hundred flowers on another: thee flowers are of a pale or yellowih red colour, and not o deep red as the red Martagon of Contantinople, hereafter et down, nor fully o large: yet of the ame fahion, that is, euery flower hanging downe, and turning vp his leaues againe. It is not o plentifull in bearing of eede as the other Lillies, but when it doth, it differeth not but in being lee.

There is another, whoe greene leaues are not o thicke et on the talke, but ele differeth not but in flowring a fortnight later.

There is another alo of this kind, o like vnto the former in root, talk, flower, & maner of growing, that the difference is hardly dicerned; but coniteth chiefly in thee two points: Firt, that the leaues of this are a little broader and horter then the former; and econdly, that it beareth his flowers a fortnight earlier than the firt. In the colour or forme of the flower, there can no difference bee dicerned, nor (as I aid) in any other thing. All thee Lillies doe pring very late out of the ground, euen as the yellow Martagons doe, but are ooner in flower then any others.

A fourth kinde hereof hath of late been knowne to vs, whoe leaues are broader and horter than the lat, and the flowers of a paler red, tending to yellow, of ome called a golden red colour: but flowreth not o early as they.

1. The red Martagon of Contantinople is become o common euery where, and o well knowne to all louers of thee delights, that I hall eeme vnto them to loe time, to betow many lines vpon it; yet becaue it is o faire a flower, and was at the firt o highly eteemed, it deerueth his place and commendations, howoeuer encreaing the plenty hath not made it dainty. It rieth out of the ground early in the pring, before many other Lillies, from a great thicke yellow caly root, bearing a round brownih talke, beet with many faire greene leaues confuedly thereon, but not o broad as the common white Lilly, vpon the toppe whereof tand one, two, or three, or more flowers, vpon long footetalkes, which hang downe their heads, and turne vp their leaues againe, of an excellent red crimon colour, and ometimes paler, hauing a long pointell in the middle, compaed with ixe whitih chiues, tipt with looe yellow pendents, of a reaonable good ent, but omewhat faint. It likewie beareth eede in heads, like vnto the other, but greater. Rh