52 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



Tulipa Narbonenjis,Jiue Monfpelienfis ve I pumilio. 

 The French or dwarfe yellow Tulipa. 



This Tulipa is very like vnto the yellow Bolonia Tulipa, both in roote, leafe, and 

 flower, as alfo in the colour thereof, being yellow : the onely difference is, that it is 

 in all things leffer and lower, and is not fo apt to beare, nor fo plentifull to encreafe by 

 the roote. 



Tulipa Italica maior & minor. The Italian Tulipa the greater and the leffer. 



Both thefe kindes of Tulipas doe fo neere refemble the laft kinde, that I might al- 

 moft fay they were the fame, but that fome difference which I faw in them, maketh 

 mee fet them apart ; and confifteth in thefe things, the ftalkes of neither of both thefe 

 rife fo high, as of the firft yellow Bolonia Tulipa : the leaues of both forts are writhed 

 in and out at the edges, or made like a waue of the fea, lying neerer the ground, and 

 the flower being yellow within, is brownifh or reddifh on the backe, in the middle of 

 the three outer leaues the edges appearing yellow. Both thefe kindes doe differ one 

 from the other in nothing, but in that one is bigger, and the other fmaller then the o- 

 ther which I faw with lohn Tradefcante, my very good friend often remembred. 



Tulipa LuJitanica^Jiue pumilio -verficolor. The dwarfe ftript Tulipa. 



This dwarfe Tulipa is alfo of the fame kindred with the three laft defcribed ; for 

 there is no other difference in this from them, then that the flower hath fome red veins 

 running in the leaues thereof. 



There are two other forts of dwarfe Tulipas with white flowers, whereof Lobel 

 hath made mention in the Appendix to his Aduerfaria ; the one whereof is the fame 

 that Clulius fetteth forth, vnder the title of Pumilio alter a : but becaufe I haue not feen 

 either of them both, I fpeake no further of them. 



Tulipa pumilio alba. The white dwarfe Tulipa. 



But that white flower that lohn Tradefcante fhewed me, and as hee faith, was deli- 

 uered him for a white Pumilio, had a ftalke longer then they fet out theirs to haue, 

 and the flower alfo larger, but yet had narrower leaues then other forts of white Tu- 

 lipas haue. 



Tulipa Bicolor. The fmall party coloured Tulipa. 



Vnto thefe kindes, I may well adde this kinde of Tulipa alfo, which was fent out of 

 Italy, whofe leaues are fmall, long, and narrow, and of a darke greene colour, fome- 

 what like vnto the leaues of an Hyacinth : the flower is fmall alfo, confiding of fixe 

 leaues, as all other Tulipas doe, three whereof are wholly of a red colour, and the o- 

 ther three wholly of a yellow. 



Tulipa Per/tea. The Perfian Tulipa. 



This rare Tulipa, wherewith we haue beene but lately acquainted, doth moft fitly 

 deferue to be defcribed in this place, becaufe it doth fo neerely participate with the 

 Bolonia and Italian Tulipas, in roote, leafe, and flower : the roote hereof is fmall, co- 

 uered with a thicke hard blackifh fhell or skinne, with a yellowifh woollineffe both at 

 the toppe, and vnder the fhell. It rifeth out of the ground at the firft, with one very 

 long and fmall round leafe, which when it is three or foure inches high, doth open it 

 felfe, and fhew forth another fmall leafe (as long almoft as the former) breaking out 

 of the one fide thereat, and after it a third, and fometimes a fourth, and a fift; but each 

 fhorter then other, which afterwards be of the breadth of the dwarfe yellow Tulipa, 

 or fomewhat broader, but much longer then any other, and abiding more hollow, and 

 of the colour of the early Tulipas on the infide : the ftalke rifeth vp a foot and a halfe 



high 



