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The firt early Martagons flower in the end of May, or beginning of Iune, and that is a moneth at the leat before thoe that come from Contantinople, which is the econd kinde. The two firt yellow Martagons flower omewhat more early, then the early red Martagons, and ometimes at the ame time with them. But the third yellow Martagon, as is aid, flowreth a moneth later or more, and is in flower when the red Martagon of Contantinople flowreth. And although the early red and yellow Martagons, pring later then the other Martagons or Lillies, yet they are in flower before them.

The firt early red Lillies or Martagons haue beene ent vnto vs by euerall names, as Martagon Pomponeum, and thereafter are called Martagon of Pompony, and alo Lilium or Martagon Macedonicum, the Lilly or Martagon of Macedonia. They are alo called by Cluius Lilium rubrum præcox, the one angutiore folio, the other latiore folio. And the lat of this kinde hath the title flore phæniceo added or giuen vnto it, that is, the Martagon or Lilly of Macedonia with gold red flowers. The Martagons of Contantinople haue beene ent by the Turkih name Zufiniare, and is called Martagon, or Lilium Byzantinum by ome, and Hemerocallis Chalcedonica by others; but by the name of the Martagon of Contantinople they are mot commonly receiued with vs, with the distinction of maculatum to the one, to ditinguih the orts. The lat kinde in this clasis, hath his name in his title, as it hath been ent vnto vs.

The Yellow Martagons are ditinguihed in their euerall titles, as much as is conuenient for them.

Here are yet ome other kindes of red Lillies to bee decribed, which differ from all the former, and remaine to be poken of in this place. Some of them grow high, and ome lowe, ome haue mall knots, which wee call bulbes, growing vpon the talkes, at the ioynts of the leaues or flowers, and ome haue none: all which hall be intreated of in their euerall orders.

The dwarfe red Lilly hath a caly roote, omewhat like vnto other Lillies, but white, and not yellow at all, and the cloues or cales thicker, horter, and fewer in number, then in mot of the former: the talke hereof is not aboue a foote and a halfe high, round and greene, et confuedly with many faire and hort greene leaues, on the toppe of which doe tand ometimes but a few flowers, and ometimes many, of a faire purplih red colour, and a little paler in the middle, euery flower tanding vpright, and not hanging downe, as in the former, on the leaues whereof here and there are ome blacke pots, lines or markes, and in the middle of the flower a long pointell, with ome chiues about it, as is in the ret of thee Lillies. This kinde is ometimes found to yeeld double flowers, as if all the ingle flowers hould grow into one, and o make it conit of many leaues, which notwithtanding Rh