7 8 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



loft, time hauing worne them out, and they are called by moft Herbarifts 

 now adayes, Narcijfus Autumnalis maior & minor, The greater and the 

 leffer Autumne Daffodill. 



Thus farre haue I proceeded with thofe Daffodils, that hauing broad leaues, beare 

 but one lingle flower, or two at the moft vpon a ftalke : And now to proceed with the 

 reft, that haue broad leaues, and beare fingle flowers, but many vpon a ftalke. 



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Narctfftts Africanus aureus maior. The great yellow Daffodill of Africa. 



This braue and (lately Daffodill hath many very long and broad leaues, of a better 

 greene colour, then many others that are grayifh, among which appeareth a rtalke, 

 not rifing to the height of the leaues, bearing at the toppe out of a skinnie hofe many 

 faire, goodly, and large flowers, to the number of ten or twelue, if the roote bee well 

 growne, and ftand in a warme place, euery one being larger then any of the French, 

 Spanifh, or Turkic Daffodils, that beare many fingle flowers vpon a ftalke, and com- 

 meth neere vnto the bigneffe of the Englifh Daffodill, called Primrofe Peerleffe, be- 

 fore defcribed, or that French kinde hereafter defcribed, that beareth the largeft 

 flowers, many vpon a ftalke (which fome would make to bee a kinde of that Englifh 

 Daffodill, but bearing more flowers) and of a faire fhining yellow colour, hauing 

 large, round, and open cups or boules, yellower then the outer leaues; and is of fo ex- 

 ceeding fweete a fent, that it doth rather offend the fenfes by the aboundance thereof: 

 the roote is great, and couered with a blackifh browne coate or skinne. 



v NarciJJus Africanus aureus minor. The leffer Barbary Daffodill. 



This leffer kinde is very neere the fame with the former, but that it lacketh fome- 

 what of his ftatelineffe of height, largeneffe of flower and cup (being of a paler yel- 

 low) and beauty of colour, for it beareth neither of thefe equall vnto the former, but 

 is in them all inferiour. And thus by this priuatiue, you may vnderftand his pofitiue, 

 and that fhall be fufficient at this time. 



Narcijus Byzantinus totus luteus. The yellow Turkic Daffodill. 



Whereas the laft defcribed, came fhort of the beauty of the former, fo this lacketh 

 of that beauty is in the laft ; for this, although it haue very long leaues, and a high 

 ftalke, yet the flowers are neither fo many, as not being aboue foure or fiue, nor fo 

 large, being not much greater then the ordinary French Daffodill hereafter defcri- 

 bed, nor the colour fo faire, but much paler, and the cup alfo fmaller ; and herein con- 

 fifteth the chiefeft differences betweene this, and both the other, but that the fent of 

 this is alfo weaker. 



The Place. 



The firft and the fecond grow in Barbary, about Argiers, and Fez, as by 

 the relation of them, that haue brought them into thefe parts, wee haue 

 been enformed. 



The laft hath been often brought from Conftantinople among other va- 

 rieties of Daffodils, but from whence they receiued them, I could neuer 

 learne. 



The Time. 



Thefe Daffodils do flower very early, euen with the firft fort of Daffo- 

 dils, I meane after they haue been accuftomed vnto our climate : for often- 

 times vpon their firft bringing ouer, they flower in lanuary or February, 

 efpecially if they be preferued from the frofts, and kept in any warme place ; 

 for they are very tender, and will foone perifh, being left abroad. 



The Names. 



The firft is called by diuers in French, Narcijfe if Algiers, and in many 



places 



