Whereto you will hardly assent, at least till you be better satisfied and assured concerning the true species of the Plants intended in the Text, or find a clearer consent and uniformity in the Translation: For what we render Poplar, Hazel and Chesnut, the Greek translateth _Virgam styracinam, nucinam, plataninam_, which some also render a Pomegranate: and so observing this variety of interpretations concerning common and known Plants among us, you may more reasonably doubt, with what propriety or assurance others less known be sometimes rendred unto us. [Sidenote: _Lilies of the Field._ Matt. 6. 28.] 17. Whether in the Sermon of the Mount, the _Lilies of the Field_ did point at the proper Lilies, or whether those Flowers grew wild in the place where our Saviour preached, some doubt may be made: because Κρίνον the word in that place is accounted of the same signification with Λείριον, and that in _Homer_ is taken for all manner of specious Flowers: so received by _Eustachius_, _Hesychius_, and the Scholiast upon _Apollonius Rhodius_, Καθόλου τὰ ἄνθη Λείρια λέγεται. And Κρίνον is also received in the same latitude, not signifying onely Lilies, but applied unto Daffodils, Hyacinths, Iris's, and the Flowers of _Colocynthis_. Under the like latitude of acception, are many expressions in the _Canticles_ to be received. And when it is said _he feedeth among the Lilies_, therein may be also implied other specious Flowers, not excluding the proper Lilies. But in that expression, _the Lilies drop forth Myrrhe_, neither proper Lilies nor proper Myrrhe can be apprehended, the one not proceeding from the other, but may be received in a Metaphorical sense: and in some latitude may be also made out from the roscid and honey drops observable in the Flowers of Martagon, and inverted flowred Lilies, and, 'tis like, is the standing sweet Dew on the white eyes of the Crown Imperial, now common among us. And the proper Lily may be intended in that expression of 1 _Kings_ 7. that the brazen Sea was of the thickness of a hand breadth, and the brim like a Lily. For the figure of that Flower being round at the bottom, and somewhat repandous, or inverted at the top, doth handsomely illustrate the comparison.