122 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Names. 



They are'called eyther Hyacinthus Hijpanicus minor Orientalis facie, as it is 

 in the title, or Hyacinthus Orientalis facie, that is to fay, The lefTer Spanifh 

 lacinth, like vnto the Orientall: yet fome haue called them, Hyacinthus 

 Orientalis ferotinus minor, The lefler late Orientall lacinth, that thereby 

 they may be knowne from the reft. 



Hyacinthus Hifpanicus obfoletus. The Spanifh dunne coloured lacinth. 



This Spanifh lacinth fpringeth very late out of the ground, bearing foure or fiue 

 fhort, hollow, and foft whitifh greene leaues, with a white line in the middle of euery 

 one of them, among which rife vp one or more ftalkes, bearing diuers flowers at the 

 toppes of them, all looking one way, or ftanding on the one fide, hanging downe their 

 heads, confifting of fix leaues, three whereof being the outermoft, lay open their 

 leaues, and turne back the ends a little again : the other three which are innermoft, do 

 as it were clofe together in the middle of the flower, without laying themfelues open 

 at all, being a little whitifh at the edges : the whole flower is of a purplifh yellow co- 

 lour, with fome white and green as it were mixed among it, of no fent at all : it beareth 

 blacke and flat feede in three fquare, great, and bunched out heads : the roote is reafo- 

 nable great, and white on the outfide, with many ftrong white fibres at it, which pe- 

 rifh not yearely, as the fibres of many other lacinths doe, and as it fpringeth late, fo it 

 holdeth his greene leaues almoft vntill Winter. 



Mauritanicus. There hath been another hereof brought from about Fez and Marocco in Barbary, 

 which in all refpefts was greater, but elfe differed little. 



There was another alfo brought from the Cape of good Hope, whofe leaues were 

 ftronger and greener then the former, the ftalke alfo thicker, bearing diuers flowers, 

 confufedly ftanding vpon longer foote-ftalkes, yet made after the fame fafhion, but 

 that the three inner leaues were whitifh, and dented about the edges, otherwife the 

 flowers were yellow and greenifh on the infide. 



The Place. 



Thefe plants grow in Spaine, Barbary, and Ethiopia, according as their 

 names and defcriptions doe declare. 



The Time. 



The firft flowreth not vntill lune ; for, as I faid, it is very late before it 

 fpringeth vp out of the ground, and holdeth his leaues as is faid, vntill Sep- 

 tember, in the meane time the feede thereof ripeneth. 



The Names. 



They haue their names according to the place of their growing ; for one 

 is called Hyacinthus Hifpanicus ob/bletioris colons. The other is called alfo 

 Hyacinthus Mauritanicus. And the laft, Hyacinthus Mthiopicus obfoletus. In 

 Englifh, The Spanifh, Barbary, or Ethiopian lacinth, of a dunne or duskie 

 colour. 



Hyacinthus Anglicus Belgicus, ve/ Hifpanicus. 

 Englifh Haref-bels, or Spanifh lacinth. 



Our Englifh lacinth or Haref-bels is fo common euery where, that it fcarce nee- 

 deth any defcription. It beareth diuers long and narrow greene leaues, not ftanding 

 vpright, nor yet fully lying vpon the ground, among which fpringeth vp the ftalke, 

 bearing at the toppe many long and hollow flowers, hanging downe their heads all 



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