The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



fixe chiues tipt with yellow pendents, and a three-forked ftile or pointell compaffing a 

 greene head, which when the flower is part, rifeth vpright againe, and becommeth 

 the feede veffell, being fomewhat long and round, yet hauing a fmall fhew of edges, 

 flat at the head, like the head of a Lilly, and without any crowne as the Tulipa hath, 

 wherein is contained pale coloured flat feede, like vnto a Lilly, but fmaller. 



Fritillaria vul- There is fome variety to be feene in this flower ; for in fome the colour is paler, and 

 pallitKor, \ n others aeaine of a very high or deepe colour : fometimes alfo they haue eight leaues, 



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and fometimes ten or twelue, as it two flowers were made one, which tome thereupon 

 haue called a Double Fritillaria. Some of them likewife doe flower very early, euen 

 with or before the early flowring Tulipas ; and fome againe flower not vntill a moneth 

 or- more after the former. 



2. Fritillaria flore atrorubente. The bloud red Fritillaria. 



The roote of this Fritillaria is fomewhat rounder and clofer then the former, from 

 whence the ftalke rifeth vp, being fhorter and lower then in any other of thefe kindes, 

 hauing one or two leaues thereon, and at the top thereof two or three more fet clofer 

 together, which are broader, fhorter, and whiter then any of them before, almoft like 

 vnto the leaues of the yellow Fritillaria, from among which toppe leaues commeth 

 forth the flower, fomewhat bending downe, or rather ftanding forth, being larger 

 then any of the former, and almoft equall in bigneffe vnto the yellow Fritillaria, of a 

 duskie gray colour all ouer on the outfide, and of a very darke red colour on the infide, 

 diuerfly fpotted or ftraked : this very hardly encreafeth by the roote, and as feldome 

 giueth ripe feede, but flowreth with the other firft forts, and before the blacke, and a- 

 bideth leffe time in flower then any. 



3. Fritillaria maxima purpureajiue rubra. The great purple or red Fritillaria. 



This great Fritillaria hath his roote equall to the bigneffe of the reft of his parts, 

 from whence rifeth vp one, & oftentimes two ftalks, hauing one, two or three flowers 

 a peece on them, as nature and the feafons are fitting : euery one of thefe flowers are 

 larger and greater then any of the former defcribed, and pendulous as they are, of a 

 fad red or purplifh colour, with many thwart lines on them, and fmall long markes, 

 which hardly feeme checkerwife, nor are fo eminent or confpicuous as in the former : 

 the ftalke is ftrong and high, whereon are fet diuers long whitifh greene leaues, larger 

 and broader then thofe of the former. 



4. Fritillaria alba. The white Fritillaria. 



The white Fritillaria is fo like vnto the firft, that I fhall not neede to make another 

 defcription of this : it fhall (I hope) be fufficient to fhew the chiefe differences, and fo 

 proceed to the reft. The ftalke and leaues of this are wholly greene, whereby it may 

 eafily be knowne from the former, which, as is faid, is brownifh at the bottome. The 

 flower is white, without almoft any fhew of fpot or marke in it, yet in fome the markes 

 are fomewhat more plainly to be feene, and in fome againe there is a fhew of a faint 

 kinde of blufh colour to be feene in the flower, efpecially in the infide, the bottomes 

 of the leaues of euery flower fometimes are greenilh, hauing alfo a fmall lift of greene, 

 comming downe towards the middle of each leafe : the head or feede veffell, as alfo 

 the feede and the roote, are fo like vnto the former, that the moft cunning cannot di- 

 ftinguifh them. 



5. Fritillaria flore duplicialbicante. The double blufh Fritillaria. 



This Fritillaria hath a round flattifh white roote, very like vnto the laft Fritillaria, 

 bearing a ftalke with long greene leaues thereon, little differing from it, or the firft or- 

 dinary Fritillaria : the flower is faid to be conftant, compofed of many leaues, being 

 ten at the leaft, and moft vfually twelue, of a pale whitifh purple colour, fpotted like 

 vnto the paler ordinary Fritillaria that is early, fo that one would verily thinke it were 



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