7 6 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



1. Narciffus medio purpureus preecox. The early purple ringed Daffodill. 



This early Daffodill hath many long grayifh greene leaues, fomewhat narrower 

 and differ then the former common white Daffodill, among which rifeth vp a long 

 naked hollow ftalke (as all other Daffodils haue) bearing at the toppe one flower, and 

 feldome two, made of fixe long white leaues, (landing clofe together about the ftalke; 

 the cup is yellow, and fo flat, that it might rather bee called a crowne : for it ftandeth 

 very clofe to the middle, and very open at the brimmes, circled with a reddifh or pur- 

 ple coloured ring, hauing certaine chiues in the middle of it alfo. The fmell hereof is 

 very fweete, exceeding many other. 



2. Narciffus medio purpureus ferotinus. The late purple ringed Daffodill. 



The leaues of this Daffodill are alwayes broader then the former early one, and 

 fome are very neare twice as broad : the flower is very like the former, being large, 

 and his leaues (landing clofe one to the fide of another ; the ring likewife that compaf- 

 feth the yellow coronet, is fometimes of a paler reddifh purple, and fometimes as 

 deepe a red as the former: fo that it differeth not in any other materiall point, then 

 that it flowreth not vntill the other is part and gone. The fent of this is like the for- 

 mer, the roote hereof is greater, as well as the leafe and flower. 



3. Narciffus medio purpureus maximus. 

 The great white purple ringed Daffodill. 



There is another kinde, whofe flower (as well as leaues and rootes) is larger then 

 any other of this kinde, which onely maketh it a diftincl fort from the other : it flow- 

 reth alfo with the later fort of thefe purple ringed Daffodils. 



4. Narciffus medio purpureus ftellaris. The ftarry purple ringed Daffodill. 



This Daffodill hath his leaues a little narrower and greener then the former forts, 

 the flower alfo of this hath his fixe white leaues not fo broad, but narrower, and fee- 

 ming longer then they, not clofing together, but (landing apart one from another, ma- 

 king it feeme like a white (larre : it hath alfo a yellow coronet in the middle, circled 

 about with purple, like the former. This doth fmell nothing fo fweete as the firft, but 

 yet hath a good fent. 



The Place. 



The firft, third, and fourth of thefe Daffodils, haue alwayes beene fent 

 vs from Conftantinople among other bulbous rootes, fo that wee know no 

 further of their naturall places. 



The fecond groweth in many places of Europe, both in Germany, 

 France, and Italy, as Clufius hath noted. 



The Time. 



The firft flowreth very early in March, euen with the firft Daffodils. The 

 fecond, third, and fourth, about a moneth after. 



The Names. 



The early and ftarre Daffodils, haue been fent vs by the Turkifh name of 

 Deuebohini, and Serincade. But their names, they haue receiued fince, to bee 

 endenizond with vs, are fet downe in their feuerall titles. 



Narci/us Perficus. The Perfian Daffodill. 



This Perfian Daffodill differeth from all other kindes of Daffodils in his manner of 



growing, 



