This great Spider-wort hath diuers long and narrow leaues spread vpon the ground, and not rising vp as the former, and not so broad also as the former, but somewhat larger then those that follow: the stalke is bigger, but seldome riseth vp so high as the next, whereof this is a larger kinde, hauing a long vnbranched stalke of white flowers, laid open like starres as it hath, but somewhat greater: the rootes are long and white, like the next, but somewhat larger. 3. _Phalangium non ramosum vulgare._ Vnbranched Spider-wort. The leaues of this Spider-wort doe seeme to bee little bigger or longer then the leaues of grasse, but of a more grayish green colour, rising immediately from the head or tuft of rootes; among which rise vp one or two stalkes, sometimes two or three foote long, beset toward the toppe with many white Starre-like flowers, which after they are past turne into small round heads, containing blacke seede, like vnto the seed of the little yellow Asphodill, but lesser: the rootes are long white strings, running vnder ground. 4. _Phalangium ramosum._ Branched Spider-wort. The branched Spider-wort hath his leaues somewhat broader then the former, and of a more yellowish greene colour: the stalke hereof is diuersly branched at the top, bearing many white flowers, like vnto the former, but smaller: the seedes and rootes are like the former in all things. [Illustration: 1 _Phalangium Allobrogicum._ The Sauoye Spider-wort. 2 _Phalangium non ramosum._ Vnbranched Spider-wort. 3 _Phalangium ramosum._ Branched Spider-wort. 4 _Phalangium Ephemerum Virginianum._ Iohn Tradescante’s Spider-wort. ] The Place. The first groweth on the Hils neare vnto Sauoye, from whence diuers, allured with the beauty of the flower, haue brought it into these parts. The second came vp in my Garden, from the seede receiued out of Italy. The others grow in Spaine, France, &c. The Time. The vnbranched Spider-wort most commonly flowreth before all the other, and the branched a moneth after it: the other two about one time, that is, towards the end of May, and not much after the vnbranched kinde. The Names. The first (as I said before) hath beene taken to be a white Lilliasphodill, and called _Liliasphodelus flore albo_; but Clusius hath more properly entituled it a _Phalangium_, and from the place of his originall, gaue him his other denomination, and so is called of most, as is set downe in the title. The other haue no other names then are expressed in their titles, but only that Cordus calleth them _Liliago_; and Dodonæus, _lib._ 4. _hist. plant._ would make the branched kinde to bee _Moly alterum Plinij_, but without any good ground. The Vertues.