72 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



haue been milde ; but moft vfually about the end of January, or elfe in Fe- 

 bruarie the beginning or the end. 



The Names. 



Wee doe vfually call it from the Turkifh name, Narciffus T'rapezunticus, 

 and fome alfo call it Narci/fus vernus pr&cox, as Clufius doth, in Englifh, 

 The early Daffodill of Trebizond. 



Narcijfus Montanus albus apophyjibus preeditus. 



The white Mountaine Daffodill with eares, or 



The white winged Daffodill. 



This Mountaine Daffodill rifeth vp with three or foure broad leaues, fomewhat 

 long, of a whitifh greene colour, among which rifeth vp a ftalke a foote and a halfe 

 high, whereon ftandeth one large flower, and fometimes two, confifting of fixe white 

 leaues a peece, not very broad, and without any fhew of yellowneffe in them, three 

 whereof haue vfually each of them on the backe part, at the bottome vpon the one fide 

 of them, and not on both, a little fmall white peece of a leafe like an eare, the other 

 three hauing none at all : the cup is almoft as large, or not much leffe then the fmall 

 Nompareille, fmall at the bottome, and very large, open at the brimme, of a faire yel- 

 low colour, and fometimes the edges or brimmes of the cup will haue a deeper yel- 

 low colour about it, like as if it were difcoloured with Saffron : the flower is verie 

 fweete, the roote is great and white, couered with a pale coate or skinne, not verie 

 blacke, and is not very apt to encreafe, feldome giuing of-fets ; neither haue I euer ga- 

 thered feede thereof, becaufe it pafTeth away without bearing any with me. 



Narciffus Motitanus, fiue Nompareille totus albus amplo calice. 

 The white Nompareille Daffodill. 



This white Nompareille Daffodill, is in roote and leafe very like vnto the former 

 mountain or winged Daffodill, but that they are a little larger : the ftalke from among 

 the leaues rifeth vp not much higher then it, bearing at the top one large flower, com- 

 pofed of fixe long white leaues, each whereof is as it were folded halfe way together, 

 in the middle whereof ftandeth forth a large white cup, broader at the mouth or brims 

 then at the bottome, very like vnto the leffer Nompareille Daffodill before remem- 

 bred, which hath caufed it to be fo entituled : the fent whereof is no leffe fweete then 

 the former. 



The Place. 



The naturall places of thefe Daffodils are not certainly knowne to vs; 

 but by the names they carry, they fhould feeme to bee bred in the Moun- 

 es. 



The Time. 



Thefe flower not fo early as many other kindes doe, but rather are to bee 

 accounted among the late flowring Daffodils; for they fhew not their 

 flowers vntill the beginning of May, or the latter end of Aprill, with the 

 fooneft. 



The Names. 



The names fet downe ouer the heads of either of them be f uch, whereby 

 they are knowne to vs : yet fome doe call the firlt Narciffus auriculatus, that 

 is to fay, The Daffodill with eares : and the other, NarciJ/tts Nompareille 

 totus albus, that is to fay, The white Nompareille, or Peerleffe Daffodill. 



I. Narciffus 



