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the middle of the Home is polreffed by another little floure, confifilng alfo of fix little leaues3 ha" uing in them fix thredsheaded with yellow, and awhite pointall. A blacke wrinkled feed is con-

tainedin three cornered heads,which by reafon of their bignelfe weigh downe the Ilalke. This floures in Aprill.

:1: 9 Ornitbogalztm Z\:”e;zpolz'tzmum.

Ill 8 0rt2i2%o_galam flyicatrmz. 4 The Neapolitan Star-floure.

Spike falhioned Star floater

q; The Place.

Stars of Bethlehem, or Star-floures, efpecially the firll and fecond, grow in fundry places that lie open to the aire,not onely in Germany and the Low-countries, but alfo in England, and in our gardens very common. The yellow l(lfl(lC Label found in Somerfet-{hire in the come fields. T135 ref’: are Pcrangers in England 5 yet we haue tnoft of them, as the third,fourth,eighth, and ninth, 19 fome of our choice gardens .

, . qt Tbe Time. Thefe kindes of bulbed plants do flours from Aprill to the end of May. {T T be N ames.

Touching the names,Diofcaricles calls it '09u3n';m1aI .- Plz'ny, Ornitfiogale .- ‘in high Dutch it is called jfelhg b3ilJ€L?ll€BBt5 mibel 2 35 YOU {hould f1y,Ce1m agflfria -' in Englifh, Stars ofBethlehem.. ' ,

:|: The refi are named in their titles 8: hiflories :bnt C/ufim quefiions whether the 1;,,[5,,,, «um- flilizw be not Btlléine 0fT}Ie0plIraflu3, 7.52‘/5. 13. Bambimmfeemes to aflirm the Spjmmm to be thg M9]

“of Diofcarides and Theo}/Jrzzflus, and Epimedium OfPli21y. zl: * The T cmpemture.

The3"e are temperate in heate and drinefre,

The Vfrtzgex.

The vertues of molt of them are vnknown : y€§ Hieronymus Tmgus writeth, That the root Ofthe Stat of Bethlehem rolled In hot embers,and applied with honey in manner of a cataplafme or pl‘ ‘ teffejhealeth Old gating vlcers,and foftcns and difcufles hard tumora,

Theroots,faith Diofcorz'de:,are eaten both raw and boiled.

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‘ Here be 1“ ‘ , , aith Tbeopbnzfim, diners forts ‘of Onion

W acre the - Y grow: {ome If Wddesas Plifl} writeth. a 0 lcfleraotycgs gram; 5

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White onions; ll: Cepa Hzflanica oélongzz,

Longifh Spanilh Onions.

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T in the middliilgqfigazvgégagggséigcé h:)<§;:3eV\t’1:Valtl;lfl the ltiallte IS fingle. roirml, biggeft

and aft fikmwhich being broken the": g Hm r ilxln ‘rear. cotwted with athrn Skin or erw ard bl3Cl(C feed thy:-e cgmegei W _apP‘33’F h _ C “v {re iloures made up in form of a ball,

head com gag F - ’ ~ 3 )13ppC_mt.1nw.hzte Sls'l1'l§. In Read of themnttbcre is P ” ° man)’ °°3l?SJvl'11Ch Ofifntlmes becommeth great 1n nanner ofa

e - _ Part 0fP;r:,a£‘_}’ _t1mes long like an e “lfh C9lout.

The red 0 ‘ - ~ W-0l1Cl1fi°!‘€th notf ' ~ » T ref ea . ~ ‘ tom the former but in {hat neffe and redneffe of the roots in P 5etx:<?ifsCa1Is{no§l1Pference at all. P - " T o a anifh k‘ . . . _ . y . . P 1nde,whol'e root 18 longer than the other, but ID other refpeag

Ve -3 . ry little dlgerent.

3 _ . ere is alfo anoth f ' . , . , _

ecagllionsé this hath but Yrs)‘-allrrn<)at§S1:‘:g§€V 3]? Onion , called by Laéel, tflfcalonzru Afitzqunrfim‘ O;

- ..t {eldome beares either llalkehflo g rgany togghcr. The leauesfwe like to Onions’ but '5 Nero: eed. It is vfccl to be eaten in fallads. :3:

g§€- T0 be briefe, it is couered with very fine skins for the molt

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S, which haue their fyr-names of the places [omc be round, and diners long_,bn: none