1 30 The Garden of p leaf ant F/owers. 



ger below then aboue, of a very pale or white blew, tending to an afh colour, and very 

 fweete in fmell : the feede is blacke and round, like vnto the feede of the Englifh la- 

 cinth, and fo is the roote, being great, round, and white ; fo like, I fay, that it is hard to 

 know the one from the other. 



The Place. 



The certaine originall place of growing thereof, is not knowne to vs. 



The Time. 



It flowreth in Aprill. 



The Names. 



Some doe call this Hyacinthus Someri, Somers lacinth, becaufe as Lobel 

 faith, he brought it firft into the Lowe-Countries, eyther from Conftanti- 

 nople, or out of Italy. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus Lilifolio & radice caruleo. 

 The blew Lilly leafed Starre lacinth. 



This lacinth hath fix or feuen broad greene leaues, fomewhat like vnto Lilly leaues, 

 but (horter (whereof it tooke his name as well as from the roote) fpread vpon the 

 ground, and lying clofe and round : before the ftalke rifeth out from the middle of 

 thefe leaues, there doth appeare a deepe hollow place, like a hole, to bee feene a good 

 while, which at length is rilled vp with the ftalke, rifmg thence vnto a foote or more 

 high, bearing many ftarre-like flowers at the toppe, of a perfect blew colour, neare 

 vnto a Violet, and fometimes of paler or bleake blew colour, hauing as it were a fmall 

 cuppe in the middle, diuided into fix peeces, without any threeds therein : the feede is 

 blacke and round, but not fhining: the roote is fomewhat long, bigge belowe, and 

 fmall aboue, like vnto the fmall roote of a Lilly, and compofed of yellow fcales, as a 

 Lilly, but the fcales are greater, and fewer in number. 



Hyacinthus Stellatus Lilifolius albus. The white Lilly leafed Starre lacinth. 



The likenefle of this lacinth with the former, caufeth me to be briefe, and not to 

 repeate the fame things againe, that haue already been exprefled : You may therefore 

 vnderftand, that except in the colour of the flower, which in this is white, there is no 

 difference betweene them. 



meo. I heare of one that mould beare blufh coloured flowers, but I haue not yet feene 

 any fuch. 



The Place. 



Thefe lacinths haue been gathered on the Pyrenaean Hils, in that part of 

 France that is called Aquitaine, and in fome other places. 



The Time. 

 Thefe flower in Aprill, and fometimes later. 



The Names. 



Becaufe the roote is fo like vnto a Lilly, as the leafe is alfo, it hath 

 moft properly beene called Hyacinthus Stellatus Lilifolio G? radice, or for 

 breuity Lilifolius, that is, The Starry Lilly leafed lacinth. It is called 

 Sarahug by the Inhabitants where it groweth, as Clufius maketh the re- 

 port from Venerius, who further faith, that by experience they haue 

 found the cattell to fwell and dye, that haue eaten of the leaues thereof. 



Hyacinthus 



