Clusius hath set downe, that it was reported, that there should be another Liliasphodill with a white flower, but we can heare of none such as yet; but I rather thinke, that they that gaue that report might be mistaken, in thinking the Sauoye Spider-wort to be a white Liliasphodill, which indeede is so like, that one not well experienced, or not well regarding it, may soone take one for another. [Illustration: 1 _Asphodelus maior albus ramosus._ The great white branched Asphodill. 2 _Asphodelus minor albus seu fistulosus._ The little hollow white Asphodill. 3 _Asphodelus minor luteus, siue Hastula regia._ The small yellow Asphodill, or Kings speare. 4 _Liliasphodelus luteus._ The yellow Day Lilly. 5 _Liliasphodelus phœniceus._ The gold red Day Lilly. ] The Place. Their originall is many moist places in Germany. The Time. They flower in May and Iune. The Names. They are called by some _Liliago_, and _Lilium non bulbosum_, and _Liliasphodelus_. In English we call them both Day Lillies, but the name doth not so well agree with the last, as with the first, for the causes aboue specified. The Vertues. The rootes of Asphodill haue formerly beene had in great account, but now are vtterly neglected; yet by reason of their sharpnesse they open and cleanse, and therefore some haue of late vsed them for the yellow Iaundise. The Day Lillies haue no physicall vse that I know, or haue heard. CHAP. XV. _Phalangium._ Spider-wort. These plants doe so nearely resemble those that are last set forth, that I thinke none that knowes them, will doubt, but that they must follow next vnto them, being so like vnto them, and therefore of the fairest of this kinde first. 1. _Phalangium Allobrogicum._ The Sauoye Spider-wort. The Sauoye Spider-wort springeth vp with foure or fiue greene leaues, long and narrow, yet broader at the bottome, narrower pointed at the end, and a little hollow in the middle; among which riseth vp a round stiffe stalke, a foote and a halfe high, bearing at the toppe one aboue another, seuen or eight, or more flowers, euery one as large almost as the yellow Day Lilly last described, but much greater then in any other of the Spider-worts, of a pure white colour, with some threeds in the middle, tipt with yellow, and a small forked pointell: after the flowers are past, the heads or seede vessels grow almost three square, yet somewhat round, wherein is contained blackish seede: the rootes are many white, round, thicke, brittle strings, ioyned together at the head, but are nothing so long, as the rootes of the other _Phalangia_ or Spider-worts. 2. _Phalangium maius Italicum album._ The great Italian Spider-wort.