124 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



The Time. 



This flowred in the Garden of M' . Richard Barnefley at Lambeth, onely 

 once in the moneth of May, in the yeare 1606, after hee had there prefer- 

 ued it a long time : but neither he, nor any elfe in England that I know, but 

 thofe that faw it at that time, euer faw it beare flower, either before or fince. 



The Names. 



It is called by diuers Bulbus Eriophorus, or Laniferus, that is, Woolly Bul- 

 bous ; but becaufe it is a Jacinth, both in roote, leafe, and flower, and not a 

 Narciffus, or DafTodill, it is called Hyacinthus Eriophorus, or Laniferus, The 

 Woolly lacinth. It is very likely, that Theophraftus in his feuenth Book & 

 thirteenth Chapter, did meane this plant, where hee declareth, that gar- 

 ments were made of the woolly fubftance of a bulbous roote, that was ta- 

 ken from between the core or heart of the roote (which, as he faith, was 

 vfed to be eaten) and the outermoft fhels or peelings; yet Clufius feemeth 

 to faften this woolly bulbous of Theophraftus, vpon the next lacinth of 

 Spaine. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus Bteticus maior, vu/go Peruanus 

 The great Spanifh Starry lacinth, or of Peru. 



This lacinth (the greateft of thofe, whofe flowers are fpread like a ftarre, except the 

 two firft Indians) hath fiue or fix, or more, very broad, and long greene leaues, fpread 

 vpon the ground, round about the roote, which being broken are woolly, or full of 

 threeds, like the former : in the middle of thefe leaues rifeth vp a round fhort ftalke, in 

 comparifon of the greatnefie of the plant (for the ftalke of the Orientall lacinth is 

 fometimes twice fo high, whofe roote is not fo great) bearing at the toppe a great 

 head or bufh of flowers, fafhioned in the beginning, before they bee blowne or fepa- 

 rated, very like to a Cone or Pineapple, and begin to flower belowe, and fo vpwards 

 by degrees, euery flower ftanding vpon a long blackifh blew foote-ftalke, which when 

 they are blowne open, are of a perfect blew colour, tending to a Violet, and made of 

 fix fmall leaues, laid open like a ftarre ; the threeds likewife are blewifh, tipt with yel- 

 low pendents, ftanding about the middle head, which is of a deeper blew, not hauing 

 any good fent to be perceiued in it, but commendable only for the beauty of the flow- 

 ers : after the flowers are paft, there come three fquare heads, containing round blacke 

 feede : the roote is great, and fomewhat yellowifh on the outfide, with a knobbe or 

 bunch at the lower end of the roote, (which is called the feate of the roote) like vnto 

 the Mufcari, Scylla, and many other bulbous rootes, at which hang diuers white, 

 thicke, and long fibres, whereby it is faftened in the ground, which perifh not euery 

 yeare, but abide continually, and therefore doth not defiie much remouing. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus Bceticus^Jiue Peruanus flore albo. 

 The great white Spanifh ftarry lacinth. 



This other Spanifh lacinth is in moft parts like vnto the former, but that his leaues 

 are not fo large, nor fo deep a greene : the ftalks of flowers likewife hath not fo thicke 

 a head, or bufh on it, but fewer and thinner fet : the flowers themfelues alfo are whitifh, 

 yet hauing a fmall dafh of blufh in them : the threeds are whitifh, tipt with yellow pen- 

 dents : the feede and rootes are like vnto the former, and herein confifteth the diffe- 

 rence betweene this and the other forts. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus Bceticus^Jiue Peruanus fiore carneo. 

 The great blufh coloured Spanifh Starry lacinth. 



This likewife differeth little from the two former, but onely in the colour of the 



flowers ; 



