54 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



high fometimes, bearing one flower thereon, compofed of fixe long and pointed 

 leaues of the forme of other fmall Tulipas, and not fhewing much bigger then the yel- 

 low Italian Tulipa, and is wholly white, both infide and outfide of all the leaues, ex- 

 cept the three outtermoft, which haue on the backe of them, from the middle toward 

 the edges, a fhew of a brownifh blufh or pale red colour, yet deeper in the midft, and 

 the edges remaining wholly white : the bottomes of all thefe leaues are of a darke or 

 dun tawnie colour, and the chiues and tippes of a darkifh purple or tawnie alfo. This 

 doth beare feed but feldome in our country, that euer I could vnderftand, but when it 

 doth, it is fmall like vnto the Bolonia or dwarfe yellow Tulipas, being not fo plentifull 

 alfo in parting, or fetting of by the roote as they, and neuer groweth nor abideth fo 

 great as it is brought vnto vs, and feldome likewife flowreth after the firft yeare : for 

 the rootes for the moft part with euery one grow lefle and leffe, decaying euery yeare, 

 and fo perifh for the moft part by reafon of the frofts and cold, and yet they haue been 

 fet deepe to defend them, although of their owne nature they will runne downe deep 

 into the ground. 



T.ulipa Byzantina duobus floribus Clujij. The fmall Tulipa of Conftantinople. 



The fmall Tulipa of Conftantinople, beareth for the moft part but two leaues on 

 the ftalke, which are faire and broad, almoft like vnto the Candy Tulipa, next here- 

 unto to be defcribed : the ftalke it felfe rifeth not aboue a foote high, bearing fome- 

 times but one flower, but moft commonly two thereon, one below another, and are 

 no bigger then the flowers of the yellow Bolonia Tulipa, but differing in colour ; for 

 this is on the outfide of a purplifh colour, mixed with white and greene, and on the 

 infide of a faire blufh colour, the bottome and chiues being yellow, and the tippes or 

 pendents blackifh : the roote is very like the yellow Bolonia Tulipa. 



Tulipa Cretica. The Tulipa of Candie. 



This Tulipa is of later knowledge with vs then the Perfian, but doth more hardly 

 thriue, in regard of our cold climate ; the defcription whereof, for fo much as wee 

 haue knowledge, by the fight of the roote and leafe, and relation from others of the 

 flower, (for I haue not yet heard that it hath very often flowred in our Country) is as 

 followeth. It beareth faire broad leaues, refembling the leaues of a Lilly, of a greenifh 

 colour, and not very whitifh : the ftalke beareth thereon one flower, larger and more 

 open then many other, which is either wholly white, or of a deepe red colour, or 

 elfe is variably mixed, white with a fine reddifh purple, the bottomes being yellow, 

 with purplifh chiues tipt with blackifh pendents : the roote is fmall, and fomewhat 

 like the dwarfe yellow Tulipa, but fomewhat bigger. 



Tulipa Armeniaca. The Tulipa of Armenia. 



This fmall Tulipa is much differing from all the former (except the fmall or dwarfe 

 white Tulipas remembred by Lobel and Clufius, as is before fet downe) in that it 

 beareth three or foure fmall, long, and fomewhat narrow greene leaues, altogether at 

 one ioynt or place ; the ftalke being not high, and naked or without leaues from them 

 to the toppe, where it beareth one fmall flower like vnto an ordinary red Tulipa, but 

 fomewhat more yellow, tending to an Orenge colour with a blacke bottome : the 

 roote is not much bigger then the ordinary yellow Bolonia Tulipa, before fet downe. 



And thefe are the forts of this firft Clafsis of early Tulipas. 



Tulipa Media. The meaner or middle flowring Tulipa. 



For any other, or further defcription of this kinde of Tulipa, it fhall not neede, ha- 

 uing giuen it fufficiently in the former early Tulipa, the maine difference confifting 

 firft in the time of flowring, which is about a moneth after the early Tulipas, yet fome 

 more fome leffe : for euen in the Pracoces, or early ones, fome flower a little earlier, and 

 later then others, and then in the colours of the flowers ; for wee haue obferued many 



colours, 



