132 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



Hyacinthus Autumnalis maior. The greater Autumne lacinth. 



The greater Autumne lacinth hath fiue or fix very long and narrow greene leaues, 

 lying vpon the ground ; the ftalkes are fet at the toppe with many ftarre-like flowers, 

 of a pale blewifh purple colour, with fome pale coloured threeds, tipt with blew, 

 (landing about the head in the middle, which in time growing ripe, containeth therein 

 fmall blacke feede, and roundifh : the roote is great and white on the outfide. 



Hyacinthus Autumnalis minor. The leffer Autumne lacinth. 



This lefler lacinth hath fuch like long and fmall leaues, but narrower then the for- 

 mer : the ftalke is not full fo high, but beareth as many flowers on it as the other, 

 which are of a pale or bleake purple colour, very like vnto it alfo : the roote and feed 

 are like the former, but fmaller. Thefe both for the moft part, beare their flowers and 

 feede before the greene leaues rife vp much aboue the ground. 



Flore Mo. There is a kinde hereof found that beareth white flowers, not differing in any other 



thing from the fmaller purple kinde laft mentioned. 



The Place. 



The firft and laft are onely kept in Gardens, and not knowne to vs where 

 their naturall place of growing wilde may be. 



The fecond groweth wilde in many places of England. I gathered diuers 

 rootes for my Garden, from the foote of a high banke by the Thames fide, 

 at the hither end of Chelfey, before you come at the Kings Barge-houfe. 



The Time. 



The greateft flowreth in the end of luly, and in Auguft. 

 The other in Auguft and September, you mall feldome fee this plant 

 with flowers and greene leaues at one time together. 



The Names. 



They haue their names giuen them, as they are exprefTed in their titles, 

 by all former Writers, except Dalefchampius, or hee that fet forth that 

 great worke printed at Lyons; for hee contendeth with many words, that 

 thefe plants can bee no Jacinths, becaufe their flowers appeare before their 

 leaues in Autumne, contrary to the true lacinth, as he faith : and therefore he 

 would faine haue it referred to Theophrajlus bulbus in libra primo cap. 1 2. and 

 calleth it his Tiphyum mentioned in that place, as alfo Bulbus ajtivus Dale- 

 champij. Howfoeuer thefe things may carry fome probability in them, yet 

 the likeneffe both of rootes, and flowers efpecially, hath caufed very lear- 

 ned Writers to entitle them as is fet downe, and therefore I may not but let 

 them pafTe in the like manner. 



The Vertues. 



Both the rootes and the leaues of the Jacinths are fomewhat cold and 

 drying, but the feede much more. It ftayeth the loofnetfe of the belly. It 

 is likewife faid to hinder young perfons from growing ripe too foone, the 

 roote being drunke in wine. It helpeth them alfo whofe vrine is ftopt, and 

 is auaileable for the yellow laundife; but as you heare fome are deadly to 

 cattell, I therefore wifh all to bee well aduifed which of thefe they will vfe 

 in any inward phyficke. 



Scilla alba. The Sea Onion or Squill. 



As I ended the difcourfe of both the true and the baftard Daffodils, with the Sea 



kindes 



