ſtemme growing from it. The ſtalke is browniſh and round at the bottome, and ſometimes flat from the middle vpwards, three foote high or more, beſet at certaine diſtances with rondles or circles of many broad leaues, larger and broader for the moſt part than any other of this kinde, and of a darke green colour: It hath two or three, and ſometimes foure of theſe rondles or circles of leaues, and bare without any leafe betweene; but aboue toward the tops of the ſtalkes, it hath here and there ſome leaues vpon it, but ſmaller than any of the other leaues: at the toppe of the ſtalke come forth many flowers, ſometime three or foure ſcore, thicke thruſt, or confuſedly ſet together, and not thinne or ſparſedly one aboue another, as in the leſſr of this kinde of Mountaine Lilly. It hath been ſometimes alſo obſerued in this kinde, that it hath borne manie flowers at three ſeuerall ſpaces of the ſtalke, one aboue another, which hath made a goodly ſhew; each flower whereof is pendulous, hanging downe, and each leafe of the flower turning vp againe, being thicke or fleſhy, of a fine delayed purple colour, ſpotted with many blackiſh or browniſh ſpots, of a very pleasant ſweet ſent, which maketh it the more acceptable: in the middle of the flower hangeth downe a ſtile or pointell, knobbed or buttoned at the end with ſixe yellow chiues, tipt with looſe pendents of an Orient red or Vermillion colour, which will eaſily ſticke like duſt vpon any thing that toucheth them: the heads or ſeede veſſels are ſmall and round, with ſmall edges about them, wherein is contained flat browne ſeede like other Lillies, but leſſer. This root is very apt to encreaſe or ſet of, as we call it, wherby the plant ſeldome commeth to ſo great a head of flowers, but riſeth vp with many ſtalkes, and then carry fewer flowers.
Of this kinde there is ſometimes one found, that beareth flowers without any ſpots: the leaues whereof and ſtalke likewiſe are paler, but not elſe differing.
Martagon flore albo. The White Martagon.
We haue alſo ſome other of this kind, the firſt wherof hath his ſtalke & leafe greener than the former, the ſtalke is a little higher, but not bearing ſo thicke a head of flowers, although much more plentifull than the leſſer Mountaine Lilly, being altogether of a fine white colour, without any ſpots, or but very few, and that but ſometimes alſo: 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 ſcales of them being brittle, and not cloſely compact, yet ſo as if two, and ſometimes three ſcales or cloues grew one vpon the head or vpperpart of another; which difference is a ſpeciall note to know theſe three kindes, from any other kinde of Mountaine Lilly, as in all old rootes that I haue ſeene, I haue obſerued, as alfo in them that are reaſonably well growne, but in the young rootes it is not yet ſo manifeſt.
Martagon flore albo maculato. The White ſpotted Martagon.
The ſecond is like vnto the firſt in all things, ſaue in this, that the flowers hereof are not altogether ſo white, and beſides hath many reddiſh ſpots on the inſide of the leaues of the flower, and the ſtalke alſo is not ſo greene but browniſh.
Martagon flore carneo. The bluſh Martagon.
A third ſort there is of this kinde, whoſe flowers are wholly of a delayed fleſh colour, with many ſpots on the flowers, and this is the difference hereof from the former.
Lilium Montanum ſiue ſilueſtre minus. The leſſer Mountaine Lilly.
The leſſer Mountaine Lilly is ſo like in root vnto the greater that is firſt deſcribed, that it is hard to diſtinguiſh them aſunder; but when this is ſprung vp out of the ground, which is a moneth after the firſt: it alſo carrieth his leaues in rondles about the ſtalke, although not altogether ſo great nor ſo many. The flowers are more thinly ſet on the ſtalkes one aboue another, with more diſtance betweene each flower than the former, and are of a little deeper fleſh colour or purple, ſpotted in the ſame manner. The buds
