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We haue another, whole flowers are pure white, and ("mailer then the other, the Fkrt 

 leaues whereof are of a pale frelh greenc, and fomewhat narrower. 



Hyacinthus Sk//a!us ftwc ruhcutc. The blufh coloured Starry lacinth. 



The difference in this from the former, is onely in the flowers, which are of a faire 

 blufh colour, much more eminent then in the others, in all things elfc alike. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus Marfius, fine precc ox ceeru/eus. 

 The early blew Starry lacinth. 



This lacinth hath his leaues a little broader, of a frefher greene, and not browneat 

 all, as the fidt blew lacinth of Fuchfms laft remembred : the buds of the flowers, while 

 they are enclofed within the leaues, and after, when the llalke is growne vp, doe re- 

 maine more blew then the buds of the former: the flowers, when they are blowne o- 

 pen, are like the former, but fomewhat larger, and of a more liuely blew colour : the 

 roote nllu is a little whiter on the outlide. This doth more feldome beare feede then 

 the former. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus pracox Jlore albo. The white early Starry lacinth. 



There is allb one other of this kinde, that beareth pure white flowers, the green leafe 

 thereof being a little narrower then the former, and no other difference. 



Hyacinthus Stcl/atus pracox Hore fuaue rubentc. 

 The early blu(h coloured Starry lacinth. 



This blulh coloured lacinth is very rare, but very pleafant, his flowers being as large 

 as the fidl of this laft kinde, and fomewhat larger then the blufh of the other kinde : 

 the leaues and rootes differ not from the lart recited lacinth. 



The Place. 



All thefe lacinths haue beene found in the Woods and Mountaines of 

 Germany, Bohemia, and Auftria, as Fuchfius and Gefner doe report, and in 

 Naples, as Imperatus and others doe teftifie. Wee cherifh them all with 

 great care in our Gardens, but efpecially the white and the blulh of both 

 kindes, for that they are more tender, and often perilh for want of due re- 

 gard. 



The Time. 



The common kindes, which are firft exprefled, flower about the middle 

 of February, if the weather bee milde, and the other kindes fometimes a 

 fortnight after, that is, in March, but ordinarily much about the fame time 

 with the former. 



The Names. 



The firit is called in Latine Hyacinthus Stcllatus vulgar h, and Hyacinthus 

 Stfllatus bifolius, and Hyacinthus Stellaris Fuch/ij, and of fome Hyacinthus 

 Stfllatus Gcrmanicus ; wee might very well call the other kinde, Hyacinthus 

 Stcllatus Tu/garis alter, but diuers call it Prtecox, and fome Martins, as it is in 

 the title. In Englilh they may bee feuerally called : the firrt, The common ; 

 and the other, The early Starry lacinth (notwithstanding the firfl flowreth 

 before the other) for diftindtion fake. 



The Hyacinthus feemeth to be called I''acinium of Virgil in his Eclogues ; 

 for hee alwayes reckoneth it among the flowers that were vfed to decke 

 Garlands, and neuer among fruits, as fome would haue it. But in that hee 

 calleth it Vacinium nigrum, in feuerall places, that doth very fitly anfwer the 



common 



