V114. Of the Hifiorie of Planta. L I B. I.

4 The Orientall Iacinth hath reat leaues,thicke,fat,and full of juice,deeply hollowed inthe middle like a trough. From the mi dle of thofe leaues rifeth vp a i’rall<e_two hands highrbaffi With‘ out leaue-s,very fmooth,foft, and full of juice, loden toward the top with many faire blew flo-nres hollow like abelhgreater than the Englifh Hyacinth,but otherwile like them. The root !.S great, bulbous or Onion-fafhiotgcouered with many fcaly reddifh filmes or pillings, fuch as doe couer Onions. _

5 The Iacinth with many floures (for fo doth the word _Po{yzznzfios import ) hath verie many large and broad leaues fhort and very thicke,fat,or full of flimie juice: from the middle whereof rife vp firong thicke grofle (talks, bare and naked, fet from the middle to the ton with many blew or skycoloured floures growing for the molt part vpon one fide of the ilalke. The root is great, thicke,and full of flimie juice.

It 11 Hyacim/ms Oriemalis flare pleno.

‘ 7 I I l ' . _ 1 I O Hymmgw ommdlzf Mu 6 1% wfi] The double floured Oriental Iacinth.

Orientall Iacinth with leaues on the flalke.

:t 6 There is another like the formerin each refpeét, fairing that the flours are wholly whit?» on the infide,and white alfo on the outfide,but three of the out leaues are ofa pale whitifh yellowo Thefe flourels fmell fweet as the former,and the heads vvherin the feeds are contained,ate of a lighr ter teen co our. II: '- _

g There is come vnto vs from beyond the feas diners other forts, whofe 6 ures are not extafl‘ with vs 5 of which there is one like vnto the firft ofthefe Oriental Iacinths, fauing that the fiourcs‘ thereof are purple coloured,whence it is termed Efyaczmlms pinymra mémx. J?

8 Likewife there is another called Oricmalis zzlém, differing alfo from the others in colour 0‘

- hefe are very white and the others blew. t the floures for that t y 9 _ _ _ , n _ _ 9 There is another called Hymnzbu: Bmm.«ilzs,or winter Iacinth : it is like the others in fhap€_e

but differeth in the time of flouring.

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1: ,0 There is another Hyacinth belonging rather to this place than any other , for that in _

.' , . - ‘t ' 7 . ‘ - , Cf root, leaues,floures,and feeds,it re iembles the ‘fitlt deier.ihed Oriental lacinth ;but in one refpié it differs not onely from them , but alfo from all other laeinths 3 which is , it hath a leafie ital 2

hailing fometimes on_e,and othetwhiles two narrow long leaues eomming forth at the bettomtgc

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Ol:the Hifiorie of Plants;

cm?’/Erie oféfizletoflare Hzfiiaizicar major. The Emdter dusky floured Spanifh Iacinth.»

1 5 Flyacintéur I miims tuficrofzm

tuberous rooted Indian Iacinth;

5 Hyacizatizwrminor Hz'f}>zmz'cn.r. The leflér S panilh Iacinth.

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the fetting of’ the floure. V\/hereupoin C/1.9.‘ frat; calls it Hyacinth): Oiirntalir czmle fol,-‘op, That is,the Oriental Hyacinth with leaues on the fialke.

q of clhmileflozired Orierztal fliyaéihtv/Er. ‘Of this kindred there are two or three more varieties, whereof I will glue you the delicripg,

tion of the moi}: notable, and the names ofthet

timer two‘ ; which, With that 1 {hall deliuer of this, may ferue for {'nrTicvientVdefcriptio11_. Fhe firfl: Ofktheire (which Clujim Calls Hyztézni/arr: 0; rientrzliz rI£c,1Wig6'€fil{fl07€, or,rhe_gre7cniflq flou. red zdouble rien‘ta1_l Iacinth) hath lcau‘es,' roots ,. and feeds like vfnto the formerly defcrig bed Orientall Iacinths-,_bir't the l‘l()'d:l‘C.S (whet-A in thedifferenee coi_i(i{ls’)' are at the firll, be- fore they be open, greene, and then on the out; fide next tothe nail;-jeyof a whirifh blew’: aflfi they confili of Hit leaues whole ripsarc Willy tir’h,ye”t retaining fame manileft‘ gréencsztlien out of the mid it off the flotrfes c"om“es forthan-=‘ other floured con‘ lifting _c>'fthtéC1¢3uF3,3;Wh‘itifli On their inner fid_e,'y¢t I5e;éP_mg,tI?C great veiné‘ or llreake vpoh the Qutgfvfiflpf, each floute ha. tiing in the middle_af_e.W <;h_1,ues with-blackithi pendants,‘ It floures in A ‘grill; _. J 3'7 2: 2 Tliisi