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Rh aith: and in many Countries of Germany, as Hungarie, Autria, Stiria, and Bohemia, as Cluius and other doe report.

They flower for the mot part in Iune, yet the firt of thee is the earliet of all the ret. All thee Lillies are called Lilia Rubra, Red Lillies: Some call them Lilium Aureum, Lilium Purpureum, Lilium Puniceum, & Lilium Cruentum. Some alo call them Martagon Chimitarum. Cluius calleth thee bulbed Lillies Martagon Bulbiferum. It is thought to be Hyacinthus Poetarum, but I referre the dicuing thereof to a fitter time. Wee haue, to ditinguih them mot fitly (as I take it) giuen their proper names in their euerall titles.

Ow remaineth onely the White Lilly, of all the whole family or tocke of the Lillies, to bee poken of, which is of two orts. The one is our common or vulgar White Lilly; and the other, that which was brought from Contantinople.

The ordinary White Lilly carce needeth any decription, it is o well knowne, and o frequent in euery Garden; but to ay omewhat thereof, as I ve to doe of euery thing, be it neuer o common and knowne; it hath a cloued or caly roote, yellower and bigger then any of the red Lillies: the talke is of a blackih greene colour, and rieth as high as mot of the Lillies, hauing many faire, broad, and long greene leaues thereon, larger and longer beneath, and maller vpon the talke vpwards; the flowers are many or few, according to the age of the plant, fertility of the oile, and time of tanding where it groweth: and tand vpon long greene foottalkes, of a faire white colour, with a long pointell in the middle, and white chiues tipt with yellow pendents about it; the mell is omewhat heady and trong.

The other White Lilly, differeth but little from the former White Lilly, either in roote, leafe, or flower, but only that this vually groweth with more number of flowers, then euer we aw in our ordinary White Lilly: for I haue eene the talke of this Lilly turne flat, of the breadth of an hand, bearing neere two hundred flowers vpon a head, yet mot commonly it beareth not aboue a dozen, or twenty flowers, but maller then the ordinary, as the greene leaues are likewie.

The firt groweth onely in Gardens, and hath not beene declared where it is found wilde, by any that I can heare of. The other hath beene ent from Constantinople, among other rootes, and therefore is likely to grow in ome parts neere thereunto.

They flower in Iune or thereabouts, but hoote forth greene leaues in Rh