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forwards for the moll part, parted at the brimmes into fix parts, turning vp their 

 points a little againe, of a fweetilh, but heady I'rnt, Ibmewhat like vnto the Grape- 

 flower: the heads for fcedc are long and fquare, wherein is much blacke feede: the 

 colour of the flowers are in fomc of a deeper blew, tending to a purple; in others of a 

 paler blew, or of a bleake blew, tending to an afh colour: Some are pure white, and 

 fome are party coloured, blew and white; and fomc are of a fine delayed purplifh red 

 or blulh colour, which fome call a peach colour. The rootcs of all forts agree, and are 

 alike, being white and very ilimie; fome whereof will be great and round, others long 

 and (lender, and thofe that lye neare the toppe of the earth bare, will be greene. 





Hyacinthus Hijpanicus maior flore campanula in/tar. 

 The greater Spanifh bell-flowred lacinth. 



This Spanifh bell-flowred lacinth, is very like the former Englifh or Spanifh la- 

 cinth, but greater in all parts, as well of leaues as flowers, many growing together at 

 the toppe of the llalke, with many fhort greene leaues among them, hanging downe 

 their heads, with larger, greater, and wider open mouths, like vnto bcls, of a darke 

 blew colour, and no good fent. 



The Place. 



The firft groweth in many places of England, the Lowe-Countries, as 

 we call them, and Spaine, but the laft chiefly in Spaine. 



The Time. 

 They flower in Aprill for the moft part, and fometimes in May. 



The Names. 



Becaufe the firfl is more frequent in England, then in Spaine, or the Lowe- 

 Countries, it is called with vs Hyacinthus Anglic us * The Englifh lacinth; 

 but it is alfo called as well Betgicus, as Hifpanicus : yet Dodonasus calleth it 

 Hyacinthus non fcriptus, becaufe it was not written of by any Authour be- 

 fore himfelfe. It is generally knowne in England by the name of Hare- 

 bels. The other Spanifh lacinth beareth his name in his title. 



Hyacinthus Eriophorus. The Woolly lacinth. 



This Woolly lacinth hath many broad, long, and faire greene leaues, very like vn- 

 to fome of the lacinths, but Differ, or (landing more vpright, which being broken, doe 

 yeeld many threeds, as if a little fine cotton wooll were drawne out : among thefe 

 leaues rifeth vp a long greene round llalke, a foote and a halfe high or more, whereon 

 is fet a great long bufh of flowers, which blowing open by degrees, firft below, and 

 fo vpwards, are very long in flowring: the toppe of the llalke, with the flowers, and 

 their little footflalkes, are all blew, euery flower Handing outright with his ftalke, and 

 fpreading like a ftarre, diuided into fix leaues, hauing many fmall blew threeds, flan- 

 din^ about the middle head, which neuer gaue ripe feede, as farre as I can heare of: 

 the root is white, fomewhat like the root of a Mufcari, but as full of wooll or threeds, 

 or rather more, then the leaues, or any other part ot it. 



The Place. 



This hath been fent diuers times out of Turkic into England, where it 

 continued a long time as well in my Garden as in others, but fome hard 

 frofty Winters caufed it to perifh with me, and diuers others, yet I haue had 

 it againe from a friend, and doth abide frefh and greene euery yeare in my 



Garden. 



The 



