The Garden of pleajant Mowers. 67 



haue a convulfion in their necke, (which wee call a cricke in the necke) if it 

 be drunke in harih (which we call red) wine. 



That the roots of Tulipas arc mnirilliing, there is no doubt, the pleafant, 

 or at leaft the no vnpleafant tafte, may hereunto perfwade; for diuers haue 

 had them lent by their friends from beyond Sea, and miftaking them to bee 

 Onions, haue vied them as Onions in their pottage or broth, and ncuer 

 found any caufc of millike, or any fenfe of euill quality produced by them, 

 but accounted them fweete Onions. 



Further, I haue made tryall of them my fclfe in this manner. I haue prc- 

 ferued the rootes of thefe Tulipas in Sugar, as I haue done the rootes of E- 

 ringus, Orchis, or any other fuch like, and haue found them to be almoft as 

 pleafant as the Eringus rootes, being firme and found, fit to be prefented to 

 the curious ; but tor force of Venereous quality, I cannot fay, either from my 

 felfe, not hauing eaten many, or from any other, on whom I haue bellowed 

 them : but furely, if there be any fpeciall propertie in the rootes of Orchis, 

 or fome other tending to that purpofe, I thinke this may as well haue it as 

 they. It Ihould feeme, that Diofcorides doth attribute a great Venereous 

 faculty to the feede, whereof I know not any hath made any efpeciall ex- 

 periment with vs as yet. 



CHAP. IX. 



Narci/us. The Daffodill. 



THere hath beene great confulion among many of our moderne Writers of 

 plants, in not diftinguilhing the manifold varieties of Daffodils; for euery one 

 almoft, without conlideration of kinde or forme, or other fpeciall note, gi- 

 ueth names fo diuerfly one from another, that if any one fhall receiue from feuerall 

 places the Catalogues of their names (as I haue had many) as they fet them down, and 

 compare the one Catalogue with the other, he (hall fcarce haue three names in a dozen 

 to agree together, one calling that by one name, which another calleth by another, that 

 very few can tell what they meane. And this their confufion, in not diftinguifhing 

 the name of NarciJ/us from PfeudonarciJ/us, is of all other in this kinde the greateft and 

 grolfeft errour. To auoide therefore that gulfe, whereof I complaine that fo manic 

 haue bin endrenched ; and to reduce the Daffodils into fuch a methodicall order, that 

 euery one may know, to what C/afsis or forme any one doth appertaine, I will firft 

 diuide them into two principall or primary kindes : that is, into NarciJ/bs, true Daffo- 

 dils, and Pft'tuhthirciJ/bs, baftard Daffodils: which distinction I hold to be molt necef- 

 farie to be fet downe firit of all, that euery one may be named without confulion vnder 

 his owne primary kind, and then to let the other parts of the fubdiuifion follow, as is 

 proper to them, and titteft to exprelfe them. Now to caufe you to vnderftand the 

 difference betweene a true Daffodill and a falfe, is this ; it confifteth onely in the flow- 

 er, (when as in all other parts they cannot bee diftinguilhed) and chiefly in the middle 

 cup or chalice ; for that we doe in a manner onely account thofe to bee Pfeudonarciffbs, 

 baftard Daffodils, whofe middle cup is altogether as long, and fometime a little longer 

 then the outter leaues that doe encompalfe it, fo that it feemeth rather like a trunke or 

 long nofe, then a cup or chalice, fuch as almoft all the Narcifsi, or true Daffodils haue; 

 I fay almoft, becaufe I know that fome of them haue their middle cup fo fmall, that 

 we rather call it a crowne then a cup ; and againe, fome of them haue them fo long, 

 that they may feem to be of the number of the Pfctuionarcifii, or baftard Daffodils : but 

 yet may ealily be knowne from them, in that, although the cup of fome of the true 

 Daffodils be great, yet it is wider open at the brim or edge, and not fo long and narrow 

 all alike as the baftard kindes are; and this is the chiefe and onely way to know how to 

 feuer thefe kindes, which rule holdeth certaine in all, except that kinde which is called 

 Narcijfus luncifolius rejkxo fore, whofe cup is narrow, and as long as the leaues that 

 turne vp againe. 



Secondly, 



