86 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



6. Narciflus Cyprius Jlore pleno luteo po/yanthos, 

 The double yellow Daffodill of Cyprus. 



The leaues of this Daffodill are almoft as broad and long as the former, the ftalke is 

 a foot high and more, bearing foure or fiue flowers on the top, euery one very double, 

 and of a fine pale yellow colour, of a ftrong heady fent. The root of this is alfo like the 

 former. 



The Place. 



The firrt of thefe Daffodils, was firft brought into England by M r . lohn 

 de Franqueuille the elder, who gathered it in his owne Countrey of Cam- 

 bray, where it groweth wilde, from whofe fonne, M r . lohn de Franqueuille, 

 now liuing, we all haue had it. The reft haue come from Conftantinople at 

 feuerall times ; and the laft is thought to come from Cyprus. Wee haue it 

 credibly affirmed alfo, that it groweth in Barbary about Fez and Argiers. 

 Some of the double white kindes grow in Candy, and about Aleppo alfo. 



The Time. 



The Turkic kindes doe for the moft part all flower early, in the end of 

 March, or beginning of Aprill at the furtheft, and the firft double, about 

 the middle or end of Aprill. 



The Names. 



All thefe Daffodils, except the firrt, haue had diuers Turkifh names fet 

 vpon the packets, wherein they haue been fent, but there is fmall regard of 

 certainty to be expected from them; for that the name Serincadc, without 

 any more addition, which is a (ingle Daffodill, hath beene impofed vpon 

 that parcell of rootes, that haue borne moft of them double flowers of di- 

 uers forts ; and the name Serincade Catamcr lale, which fignifieth a double 

 flowred Daffodill, hath had many fingle white flowers, with yellow cups, 

 and fome whofe flowers haue been wholly white, cuppe and all, and fome 

 purple ringed, and double alfo among them. Their names, whereby they 

 are knowne and called with vs, are, as fitly as may be, impofed in their titles: 

 And this I hope fhall fuffice, to haue fpoken of thefe forts of Daffodils. 



Hauing finifhed the difcourfe of the former fort of broad leafed Daffodils, it is fit to 

 proceede to the next, which are Angustifolios Narcijfos, thofe Daffodils that haue 

 narrow leaues, and firft to fet downe thofe that beare fingle flowers, whether one or 

 many flowers vpon a ftalke, and then thofe that beare double flowers in the fame man- 

 ner. 



NarciJ/'us Virgincus. The Virginia Daffodill. 



This plant I thought fitteft to place here in the beginning of this C/afsh, not finding 

 where better to fhroud it. It hath two or three long, and very narrow leaues, as greene 

 as the leaues of the great Lcucoium bulbofum, and mining withall, which grow fome- 

 times reddifh, efpecially at the edges : the ftalke rifeth vp a fpanne high, bearing one 

 flower and no more on the head thereof, ftanding vpright like a little Lilly or Tulipa, 

 made of fix leaues, wholly white, both within and without, except that at the bottome 

 next to the rtalke, and a little on the backfide of the three outer leaues, it hath a fmall 

 dafh or mew of a reddifh purple colour : it hath in the middle a few chiues, ftanding 

 about a fmall head pointed; which head groweth to bee fmall and long, containing 

 fmall blackifh flat feede : the roote is fmall, long, and round, a little blackifh on the 

 outfide, and white on the infide. 



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