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Of the Hifiorie of Plants.“

In ‘I be Drzfaription.

He Checquered DafFodill,or Ginny-hen Floure, hath fmal1_ narrow graffie leaues , 3-’ mongwhich there rifeth vp a {talke three hands high, hauing at the top one or two flotires,and fometimes three, which confifleth of fix fmall leaues checquered molt

firangely: wherein Nature, or rather the Creator of all things,hath kept a very wonderfull ordfifs ftrrpaifing (as in all other things) the curioufefi painting that Art can fet downe. One fquarc 15 of a greenifh yellow colour, the other purple, keeping the fame order as wellon the backfitle of the fioure as one the infide, although they are blackifh in one fquare, and of a Violet colour in an other; infomuch that euery leafe feemeth to be the feather of a Ginny hen,whereof it tooke h15 name. The root is frnall, white, and of the bigneffe of halfe a garden beane. _ _

2 The fecond kinde ofChecquered Daffodill is like vnto the former in each refpeét, iauing that this hath his floure dafht ouer with a light purple, and is fomewhat greater than the Otl1€{; wherein coiififzeth the difference.

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Iii 3 Friti/[aria Aquitzmica mizmflore _ _ _ _ _ The early white Fritillgttgg

lutco oéfoleto. _ H p The leffer darlte yellow Ffltlllailfig

:1; There are fiuidry differences and varieties of the floure,tal<en from the colour, largenes, doll?‘ blen‘efi‘e,earline {Fe and latenefle of flouring,as alfo from themany or few branches bearing floures.

We will onely fpecifie their varieties by their names, feeing their forme differs little from thofc '

you haue here defcribed-I. _

4, Fritz"//aria rmixima ramaflipurptrea. The greatefi branched purple checquered Daffodillg

5 Fritil/ariaflorepzirpureoplezm. The double purple floured chccquered Dalfodill. .

6 Fri!ifiarizzpolyant/mfiaum/iridtk. T116 YCHOWJ-.fl') gfggng many floured checquercd

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7 Fritillaria lutea Somcri.‘ Somers his yellow checquered Daffodill.

8 Friti/[aria 4/éapurpurco teffulatzz. The white_Fritillarie checquered with purple.

9 Fritz’/Z/irzla alézzpmcox. The early white Fritillarie or Checquered Daffod 111,

I o Fritillma minor flare luteo obfaleto. The lefl‘er darke yellow Fritillarie. . I I Friti//aria M zfl'z‘fb/2'4 /urea tzmric’g:zt;zj>4ruofl0re,e,/9“ ./Jltemflore majore. Narrow leaued yellow‘ variegated Fritillarie with {mall floures sand another with a larger floure.

I 2 Friti/[aria miniana pluriémflariéim The leali Fritil larie with many floures .

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Orrlgle C,;i“nl’ l'15‘U fgotire is called offiodorlepor? Flo: Mcicztgrik {of Loéefim, Li[i0-war:{;fg2 rtt,rr£c:ga7.‘r.,

table frthath the IiOL1l‘C ofa Lilly, and the root of Nttrczflhz :1: hath beene called Fmzl/ar.zzi,of the

refemble prd vpon which men play at Clieflh, which fqtiare Cl1€lCl<€l'S- the floure‘ doth very iritreh eemeth £,OOmCthll1l{1Dg that it was named F}"ITZ[/tlé‘ : whereof there is no certainty 5 for zllgzrmil “E _U éalllfrirrz/Km, Aéacm, or the Tableswheteon men play at in CA5: fifth boolteof"

Plrfamsi writing to Gzz//rz.

Izmz trifizls, Nuciéuapzier refiéfira C,/amo/0 r€It0£../ll‘tt7‘ )1 7/2/lgl:/Z70 : Et élmdo mzzlé prodztm Friti/[0 plrtanaz modb rzzptm E popimz VB:/z'[cm raga: w/ms zzlei1ror,é~'c; The {ad Boy now his nuts cal’: by.-,‘ Is call’d to Schoole by Mafiers cry : And the drunke D icer now betray°d By flattering Tables as he play’d, Is from his fecret tiplinghoufe drawne out, Although the Oflicer he much befought,8cc.

In.E“£'-Jiflnve may call it Turlt-y-lien or Ginny-lien-«Floure, and alfo Checquered Daffodill, and

Fr ' ' - . , muafles according to the Latine.

Ofth - _ In T/at Temperature and I/‘ertuer. p t A r . “E e facultie of thefe pleafant floures there is nothing fer downe in the afntierit or later S./X7 ii; = are greatly efleemed for the beautifying of our gard.ens,and the bo‘fom‘s of the bC§.l1tlfLlll,,

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t H A P. 90. Of trite S4/fron,czne{tbe wilde or Sprrrzg Szzfliroii.

C""Wfl0W-° t'5*_/imzflare. Saffron with and without flourer

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