126 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



flowers ; for this being found growing among both the other, hath his head of flow- 

 ers as great and large as the firft, but the buds of his flowers, before they are open, are 

 of a deepe blufh colour, which being open, are more delayed, and of a pleafant pale 

 purple, or blufh colour, (landing vpon purplifh ftalkes : the heads in the middle are 

 whitifh, and fo are the threeds compafiing it, tipt with yellow. 



The Place. 



Thefe doe naturally grow in Spaine, in the Medowes a little off from the 

 Sea, as well in the Ifland Gades, vfually called Cales, as likewife in other 

 parts along the Sea fide, as one goeth from thence to Porto Santa Maria, 

 which when they be in flower, growing fo thicke together, feeme to couer 

 the ground, like vnto a tapiftry of diuers colours, as I haue beene credibly 

 enformed by Guillaume Boel, a Freeze-lander borne, often before and 

 hereafter remembred, who being in fearch of rare plants in Spaine, in the 

 yeare of our Lord 1607, after that moft violent frofty Winter, which peri- 

 fhed both the rootes of this, and many other fine plants with vs, fent mee 

 ouer fome of thefe rootes for my Garden, and affirmed this for a truth, 

 which is here formerly fet downe, and that himfelfe gathered thofe he fent 

 mee, and many others in the places named, with his owne hands ; but hee 

 faith, that both that with the white, and with the blufh flowers, are farre 

 more rare then the other. 



The Time. 



They flower in May, the feede is ripe in luly. 



The Names. 



This hath beene formerly named Eriop/iorus Peruanus, and Hyacinthus 

 Stellatus Peruanus, The Starry lacinth of Peru, being thought to haue grown 

 in Peru, a Prouince of the Wefl Indies ; but he that gaue that name firft vn- 

 to it, eyther knew not his naturall place, or willingly impofed that name, to 

 conceale it, or to make it the better efteemed. It is moft generally recei- 

 ued by the name Hyacinthus Peruanus, from the firft impofer thereof, that 

 is, the lacinth of Peru : but I had rather giue the name agreeing moft fitly 

 vnto it, and call it as it is indeede Hyacinthus Stellatus Battcus, The Spanifh 

 Starry lacinth ; and becaufe it is the greateft that I know hath come from 

 thence, I call it, The great Starry lacinth of Spaine, or Spanifh lacinth. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus vulgaris, fiue Bifolius Fuchftj. 

 The common blew Starry lacinth. 



This Starry lacinth (being longeft knowne, and therefore moft common) rifeth out 

 of the ground, vfually but with two browne leaues, yet fometimes with three, inclo- 

 ling within them the ftalke of flowers, the buds appearing of a darke whitifh colour, 

 as foone as the leaues open themfelues, which leaues being growne, are long, and hol- 

 low, of a whitifh greene on the vpper fide, and browne on the vnder fide, and 

 halfe round, the browne ftalke riling vp higher, beareth fine or fixe fmall rtarre-like 

 flowers thereon, confifting of fix leaues, of a faire deepe blew, tending to a purple. 

 The feede is yellowifh, and round, contained in round pointed heads, which by rea- 

 fon of their heauineffe, and the weaknefTe of the ftalke, lye vpon the ground, and often 

 perifh with wet and frofts, &c. The roote is fomewhat long, and couered with a yel- 

 lowifh coate. 



Hyacinthus ftellatus flore albo. The white Starry lacinth. 



The white Starry lacinth hath his leaues like the former, but greene and frefh, not 

 browne, and a little narrower alfo : the buddes for flowers at the firft appeare a little 

 blufh, which when they are blowne, are white, but yet retaine in them a fmall fhew of 

 that blufh colour. We 



