The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



on the outlide, leauing the edges of euery leafe white on both fides : in the middle of 

 thefe flowers Hand other fmall flowers, each of them alfo made of fix fmall white 

 leaues a peece, which meeting together, feeme to make the (hew of a cuppe, within 

 which are contained lix white threeds, tipt with yellow, and a long white pointell in 

 the middle of them, being without any lent at all : after the flowers are part, come vp 

 great round heads, which are too heauie for the llalke to beare; and therefore lye 

 downe vpon the leaues or ground, hauing certaine lines or llripes on the outlide, 

 wherein is contained round, blacke, rough feede : the roote is great and white, and 

 fomewhat flat at the bottome, as diuers of thefe kindes are, and doe multiply as plen- 

 tifully into fmall bulbes as the common or any other. 



The Place. 



This Starre-flower groweth in the Medowes in diuers places of Naples, 

 as Fabius Columna, and Ferrantes Imperatus doe teflifie, from whence 

 they haue been lent. And Matthiolus, who fetteth out the figure thereof 

 among his DafFodills, had (it Ihould feeme) feene it grow with him. 



The Time. 



It flowreth in May, although it begin to fpring out of the ground often- 

 times in Nouember, but moll vfually in January: the feede is ripe in luly. 



The Names. 



Matthiolus reckoneth this (as is faid) among the Daffodils, for no other 

 refpect, as I conceiue, then that he accounted the middle flower to bee the 

 cuppe or trunke of a DafFodill, which it doth fomewhat refemble, and fet- 

 teth it forth in the fourth place, whereupon many doe call it Narcijfus quar- 

 tu.< Matthioli, The fourth DafFodill of Matthiolus. Fabius Columna calleth 

 it Hyacinthus aruorum Ornithogali Jiore. Clufms (to whom Imperatus fent it, 

 in Head of the Arabian which hee delired) calleth it of the place from 

 whence he receiued it, Ornithogalum Neafo/ifanum, and we thereafter call it 

 in Englilh, The Starre-flower of Naples. 



Ornithogalum Hifpanicum minus. The little Starre-flower of Spaine. 



Clufms hath fet forth this plant among his Ornithogala or Starre-flowers, and al- 

 though it doth in my minde come nearer to a Hyacinthus, then to Ornithogalum, yet 

 pardon it, and let it pafle as he doth. From a little round whitifh roote, fpringeth vp in 

 the beginning of the yeare, fiue or lix fmall long green leaues, without any white line 

 in the middle of them, among which rife vp one or two fmall flalkes, an hand length 

 high or better, bearing feuen or eight, or more flowers, growing as it were in a tuft or 

 vmbell, with fmall long leaues at the foote of euery llalke, the lower flowers being 

 equall in length with the vppermofl, of a pale whitilh blew or alh colour, with a ftrake 

 or line downe the backe of euery leafe of them, with fome white threeds Handing a- 

 bout a blewifh head in the middle : thefe flowers pafle away quickly, and giue no feed, 

 fo that it is not knowne what feede it beareth. 



The Place. 

 This groweth in Spaine, and from thence hath been brought to vs. 



The Time. 



It flowreth in May. 



The Names. 



It hath no other name then is fet down in the title, being but lately found 

 out. i- Or///- 



