44 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



the infide, fometimes fpotted with red fpots almoft through the whole infide of the 

 flower, vnto the very edge, which abideth of a pale yellow colour, and fometimes 

 there are very few fpots to be feene, and thofe from the middle onely on the inlide 

 (for on the outfide there neuer appeareth any fpots at all in this kinde) and fometimes 

 with no mew of fpots at all, fometimes alfo of a more pale greene, and fometime of a 

 more yellow colour : the outfide of the flowers doe likewife vary, for in fome the out- 

 fide of the leaues are of a darke fullen yellow, &c. elfe more pale yellow, and in other 

 of a darke purplifh yellow colour, which in fome is fo deepe, and fo much, that it ra- 

 ther feemeth blacke then purple or yellow, and this efpecially about the bottome of 

 the flower, next vnto the ftalke, but the edges are ftill of a yellowHh greene : the head 

 of feede, and the feede likewife is like vnto the former, but bigger in all refpedls. 



12. Fritillaria Hifpanica vmbellifera. The Spanifh blacke Fritillaria. 



This Fritillaria is no doubt of kindred to the laft recited, it is fo like, but greater in 

 all parts thereof, as if growing in a more fruitfull foile, it were the ftronger and luftier 

 to beare more (lore of flowers : the flowers grow foure or fiue from the head together, 

 hanging downe round about the ftalke, like vnto a Crowne Imperiall, and are of a 

 yellowifh greene colour on the infide, fpotted with a few red fpots, the outfide being 

 blackifh as the former. 



The Place. 



The firft of thefe plants was firft brought to our knowledge from France, 

 where it groweth plentifully about Orleance ; the other forts grow in di- 

 uers other Countries, as fome in Portugall, Spaine, Italy, &c. as their names 

 doe import, and as in time they haue been obferued by thofe that were cu- 

 rious fearchers of thefe rarities, haue been fent to vs. 



The Time. 



The early kindes doe flower in the beginning of Aprill or thereabouts, 

 according to the mildenefle or fharpenefle of the precedent Winter. The 

 other doe flower after the firft are paft, for a moneths fpace one after ano- 

 ther, and the great yellow is very late, not flowring vntill about the middle 

 or end of May. 



The Names. 



This hath receiued diuers names: fome calling it Flos Meleagridis, the 

 Ginny Hen Flower, of the variety of the colours in the flower, agreeing with 

 the feathers of that Bird. Some call it Narcijfiis Caparonius, of the name of 

 the firft inuentor or finder thereof, called Noel Caperon, an Apothecary 

 dwelling in Orleance, at the time he firft found it, and was fhortly after the 

 finding thereof taken away in the Maflacre in France. It is now generally 

 called Fritillaria, of the word Fritillus, which diuers doe take for the Chefle 

 borde or table whereon they play, whereunto, by reafon of the refemblance 

 of the great fquares or fpots fo like it, they did prefently referre it. It is 

 called by Lobel LHhnarciffus purpureus variegafus, & sejfulatits, making it a 

 kinde of Tulipa ; but as I faid in the beginning of the Chapter, it doth moft 

 neerely refemble a fmall pendulous Lilly, and might therefore rightly hold 

 the name of Li/ium variegafum, or in Englifh, the checkerd Lilly. But be- 

 caufe the errour which firft referred it to a DafFodill, is growne ftrong by 

 cuftome of continuance, I leaue to euery one their owne will, to call it in 

 Englifh eyther Fritillaria, as it is called of moft, or the checkerd DafFodill, 

 or the Ginnie Hen flower, or, as I doe, the checkerd Lilly. I mall not neede 

 in this place further to explaine the feuerall names of euery of them, hauing 

 giuen you them in their titles. 



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