The first early red Lillies or Martagons haue beene sent vnto vs by seuerall names, as _Martagon Pomponeum_, and thereafter are called Martagon of Pompony, and also _Lilium_ or _Martagon Macedonicum_, the Lilly or Martagon of Macedonia. They are also called by Clusius _Lilium rubrum præcox_, the one _angustiore folio_, the other _latiore folio_. And the last of this kinde hath the title _flore phæniceo_ added or giuen vnto it, that is, the Martagon or Lilly of Macedonia with gold red flowers. The Martagons of Constantinople haue beene sent by the Turkish name _Zufiniare_, and is called _Martagon_, or _Lilium Byzantinum_ by some, and _Hemerocallis Chalcedonica_ by others; but by the name of the Martagon of Constantinople they are most commonly receiued with vs, with the distinction of _maculatum_ to the one, to distinguish the sorts. The last kinde in this _classis_, hath his name in his title, as it hath been sent vnto vs. The Yellow Martagons are distinguished in their seuerall titles, as much as is conuenient for them. CHAP. V. _Lilium Aureum & Lilium Rubrum._ The Gold and Red Lillies. There are yet some other kindes of red Lillies to bee described, which differ from all the former, and remaine to be spoken of in this place. Some of them grow high, and some lowe, some haue small knots, which wee call bulbes, growing vpon the stalkes, at the ioynts of the leaues or flowers, and some haue none: all which shall be intreated of in their seuerall orders. _Lilium pumilum cruentum._ The dwarfe red Lilly. The dwarfe red Lilly hath a scaly roote, somewhat like vnto other Lillies, but white, and not yellow at all, and the cloues or scales thicker, shorter, and fewer in number, then in most of the former: the stalke hereof is not aboue a foote and a halfe high, round and greene, set confusedly with many faire and short greene leaues, on the toppe of which doe stand sometimes but a few flowers, and sometimes many, of a faire purplish red colour, and a little paler in the middle, euery flower standing vpright, and not hanging downe, as in the former, on the leaues whereof here and there are some blacke spots, lines or markes, and in the middle of the flower a long pointell, with some chiues about it, as is in the rest of these Lillies. [Sidenote: _Lilium rubrum multiplici flore._] This kinde is sometimes found to yeeld double flowers, as if all the single flowers should grow into one, and so make it consist of many leaues, which notwithstanding his so continuing sundry yeares, vpon transplanting, will _redire ad ingenium_, that is, quickly come againe to his old byas or forme. [Illustration: 1 _Martagon rubrum siue luteum._ The red or the yellow Martagon. 2 _Lilium Bulbiferum._ The red bulbed Lilly. 3 _Lilium aureum._ The gold red Lilly. 4 _Lilium album._ The white Lilly. ]