96 'The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



foeuer, and as bigge as any meane Squilla or Sea Onion roote, hauing many long, 

 thicke, and white fibres, or long rootes, diuerfly branched, and fpread vnder the vp- 

 per part of the earth, befide fome others that grow downward, and perifh not euery 

 yeare, as the fibres of all, or moft of the other Daffodils doe ; and therefore this plant 

 will not thriue, and beare flowers, if it be often tranfplanted, but rather defire to a- 

 bide in one place without remouing, as I faid, and that not to be ouerfhadowed, or co- 

 uered with other herbes (landing too neare it, which then will flourifh, and beare a- 

 boundantly : from this roote, which is couered with many blackifh coates, arifeth fix 

 or feuen, or more leaues, twice fo broad almoft, as any of the former Daffodils, but 

 not fo long by halfe as many of them, being but fhort, in comparifon of the breadth, 

 and of a white greene colour ; from the middle of which leaues, as alfo from the fides 

 fometimes, fpringeth vp one or two, or more ftalkes, roundifh and thicke, and fome- 

 times a little flat and cornered, a foote high or fomewhat more, bearing at the toppe, 

 out of a skinnie huske, eight, ten, twelue, or more very large flowers, confifting of fix 

 white leaues a peece, fpread or laid open, with a white fhort cuppe or crowne in the 

 middle, lying flat vpon the leaues, cut or diuided into fix corners (and not whole, as 

 the cuppe or crowne of any other fingle Daffodill) from euery of which edges, or 

 corners of this cup or crowne, ftandeth one white long thread, a little crooked or tur- 

 ning vp at the end, tipt with a yellow pendent, and fome other white threads tipt with 

 yellow pendents, (landing alfo in the middle : after the flower is part, there come vp 

 great three fquare heads, wherein the feede is contained, which is great, blacke, and 

 round, like vnto the feede of other Daffodils, but greater : the flower hath a reafona- 

 ble good fent, but not very ftrong. 



The Place. 



It was firft found by the Sea fide, in the Ifle of Sardinia, and on the high 

 Mountaines alfo of the fame Ifle, where it hath borne by report, thirty flue 

 flowers vpon a (talke : it groweth likewife about Illyricum, and in diuers 

 other places. 



The Time. 



It fpringeth later out of the ground then any other Daffodill, that is to 

 fay, not vntill the later end of March, or beginning of Aprill, and flowreth 

 in the end of May, or the beginning of lune : the feede is ripe in the end of 

 luly, or beginning of Augult. 



The Names. 



The firft that hath made mention of this Daffodill, was Matthiolus, who 

 placed it in the third place among his Daffodils, and is moft vfually now a- 

 dayes called, Narcijjus tertius Matthioli, Matthiolus his third Daffodill, 

 the rather, becaufe Clufius vpon a more mature deliberation, firft referred 

 it thereunto, but called it at the firft, Lilionarci/fus Hemerocallidis facie, and, 

 as hee faith, lacobus Plateau (who firft fent him the figure hereof, with the 

 defcription) called it LilionarciJ/us Orientalis, but Clufius vpon certaine in- 

 formation, that it grew in the places aforefaid, mifliked the name of Orieti- 

 talis, and added Hemerocallis, which yet is not fit, for that his Hemerocnllis 

 Valentina, is a plaine Pancration or Sea baftard Daffodill, whofe middle 

 cup is longer then the cup of any true Daffodill, which (as I faid in the be- 

 ginning of this Chapter) is the chiefeft note of difference, betweene a true 

 and a baftard Daffodill. I receiued the feede of this Daffodill among many 

 other feedes of rare plants, from the liberality of M r . Doctor Flud, one of 

 the Phyfitians of the Colledge in London, who gathered them in the Vni- 

 uerfity Garden at Pifa in Italy, and brought them with him, returning home 

 from his trauailes into thofe parts, by the name of Martagon rarifsimum, 

 (and hauing fowne them, expecled fourteene yeares, before I faw them 

 beare a flower, which the firft yeare that it did flower, bore foure ftalkes of 



flowers, 

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