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| p Tulipa parf urea. 



The purple Tulip 



$10 7*«///>4 >•«&•<* amethijtina 



The bright red Tulip. 





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i -"p 1 He Tulipa of Bolonia hath fat thicke and grofle Ieaues JioIIow,furrowed orchanellcd, 



1 bended a little backward,and as it were folded togethenwhich at thvir firft comming 

 vp feemc to be of a reddifh colour,and being throughly growne turne intoa whitifta 

 ^recne. In the midft of thofe Ieaucs rifeth vp a naked fat ftalke a foot higher fomthing more jOQ 

 the top whereof Aandeth one or two yellow floures/omtimes three or more,confifting of fix fmal 

 Ieaucs,after a fort like to a deepe wide open cup,narrow aboue,and wide in the bottome. After it 

 hath been fome few dayes flourcd,the points and brims of the floure turn backward,Iike a Da^ma- 

 tianor Turkifli Catcalled Tulipan,Tolepan,Turban,and Turfan,whereof ittooke hisname.W 

 chiues or threds in the middle of the floure be fomtimes yellow.otherwhiies blackifh or purpffifl, 

 but commonly of one oucrwornc colour or other, Nature feeming to play more with this floure 

 than with any other that I do know . This floure is of a reafonable pleafant fmell,and the other ot 

 h is kinde haue little or no fracl at all. The feed is flat,fmooth,inimng,and of agnftly fiiMtancc. 



The root is bulbous.and very like to a common onion of S.Omers. 



-u~ 12^.-1. t.,i:„. '„~u _:a ^e nrm ^ <*vrent in the blacfce bottome which this hatn 



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 middle of the floure,and is not fo fwcet of fmcll,which letteth forth tnea l ^ l%x ' a , , 

 The yellow Tulipa that floureth timely hath thicke and groffe Ieaues full of juice lon.^ 



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