The Garden of pleajant Flowers. 



flowers, with euery one of them eight or ten flowers on them) which of all 

 other names, doth leaft anfwer the forme or qualities of this plant. It may 

 moft fitly be called Narcifflis marinus maximus, in Englifh, The great Sea 

 DafFodill, both becaufe it is a true DafFodill, and the greateft of all other, 

 and alfo becaufe it hath not been found, but in Iflands, or elfe in other pla- 

 ces neare the Sea. Lobelius entituleth it Pancratium Indicum alterum iiernum, 

 Jiue NarciJJus Indicus alter facie Pancratij Monfpeliaci, but all this is wide from 

 the matter, as may eafily be known, by that that hath been faid before. It is 

 generally (as I faid before) called of all NarciJ/its tertius Matthioli, Matthi- 

 olus his third DafFodill, which may either fo pafFe with vs, or as I called it, 

 The great Sea DafFodill, which you will, & fo Clufius doth laftly entitle it. 



i . Pancratium Indicum, aut NarciJ/us Indicus Autumnalis quorundam Lobelij. 

 The Indian Autumne DafFodill of Lobel. 



This plant hath in my opinion, a farre nearer refemblance vnto an Hyacinthus, 

 vnto any DafFodill : But becaufe Lobel hath fo fet i't forth, I will fo publifh it vnto 

 you, leauing it to iudgement. The roote is, as he faith, a fpan long, and of the thick- 

 nefTe of a mans arme, couered with many white (hells, whereof the outermoft are of a 

 darke red or Chefnut colour : the flowers rife vp in September, and October, being 

 eight or ten in number, euery one by it felfe vpon a fmall footftalke, made of fix leaues 

 a peece, fomewhat long, narrow, and pointed, like vnto the flowers of the Englifh 

 Colchicum, or Medowe SafFron, of a whitifh yellow dunne colour, with fix long 

 threads in the middle : the greene leaues are long and broad, and broad pointed. 



2. NarciJJus Marinus Africanus,Jiue Exoticus Lobe It j. 

 The Sea DafFodill of Africa. 





The roote of this ftrange plant (which of fome likenefFe is called a DafFodill) is very 

 great, made as it were of many fcaly cloues, from whence rifeth vp a fmall fhort ftalke, 

 bearing hard aboue the ground two faire broad greene pointed leaues, more long then 

 broad, fo compafling the ftalke at the bottome, that it feemeth to run through them : 

 the ftalke is fpotted with diuers difcoloured fpots, and is bare or naked from thefe two 

 leaues vnto the toppe, where it beareth one faire double flower, like vnto a double A- 

 nemone, of a delayed reddifh colour, tending to a blufh, with many threads fet about 

 the middle head. 



3. NarciJ/us Marinus Exoticus. The ftrange Sea DafFodill. 



This ftrange Sea DafFodill, hath fiue or fix large and long leaues of a pale greene co- 

 lour, from among which rifeth vp a ftrong and bigge ftalke, bearing at the toppe, out 

 of a thinne hofe or skinne, many very large flowers, made of fix long and pointed 

 leaues apeece, of a blewifh purple colour, with a large round open cup in the middle, 

 of a fadder colour then the leaues : the roote is very great, yet like vnto other great 

 DafFodils, the outer skins whereof are of a darke browne colour. 



The Place. 



The Indian DafFodils grew in the vpper part of Hifpaniola in the Weft 

 Indies, and brought hither, where they all foone perifhed. 



The other grew neare the Cape of good Hope, and was brought into the 

 parts of Holland and thereabouts, from whence we had it, & perifhed alfo. 



The laft is vnknowne where it was gathered. 



The Time. 



The firft flowred in Autumne, as it is faid. 



The other in the firft Summer of their bringing. 



And fo did the laft, but the fame rootes will not flower with vs againe. 



The 



