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$ 24 Tulipaluteo & rubrojlriatus. 



The red and yellow Fooles coat. 



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% zSTuliparubraoris pallida. 



The red Tulip with pale edges. 1 



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£25 Tulipaflore color is fulphurei. 



The fulphcr coloured Tulip* 



1 2 There is another alfo in our London gar- 

 dens, of a fnow white colour 5 the edges (lightly 

 waftit ouer with a little of that we call blufli co- 

 lour. 



1 3 We haue another like the former/auing 

 that his floure is of a ftraw colour. 



1 4 There is another to be feene with a floure 

 mixed with ftreaks of red and yel!ow,rcfembling 



a flame of fire^wherupon we haue called it Flam- 

 bant. 



There be likewife fb many more differing Co 

 notably in colour of their floures, although in 

 leaues 3 ftalke,and roots for the moft part one like 

 another,that (as I faid before) to fpeake of them 

 feuerally would require a peculiar volume. 



t Therefore not to trouble you any further, 

 I haue giuen you onely the figures and names of 

 the notableft differences which are in fhape ? -as 

 the dwarfe Tulipa^andthe branched ones, toge- 

 ther with the colour of their floures 3 containcd in 

 their titles, that you need not far to fecke iy $ 



There be a fort greater than the reft/ which in 



forme are like ; the teaues whereof are thicke, 

 Iong,broad 5 now and then fomewhat folded in trc 

 edges ; in the middeft whereof doth rife vp a ftalfc 

 a foot higher fomthing higher,vpon which flar- 

 deth onely one floure bolt vpright, confiding <» 

 fix Ieaues,afrer a fort like to a deepc wide cup 



this formed the bottome turned vpvrard V* W 



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