i8o The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



being brownifh and round, but not fo flat as in other forts, the roots are more browne 

 on the outfide, and growing tuberous thicke, as all other that are kept in Gardens. 



Iris Chalcedonica fiue Sufiana minor. The lefTer Turkic Flowerdeluce. 



There is another hereof little differing, but that the leafe is of a more yellowifh 

 greene colour, and the flower neither fo large or faire, nor of fo perfpicuous markes 

 and fpots, nor the colour of that liuely (though darke) luftre. 



The Place. 



Thefe haue been fent out of Turkic diuers times among other things, and 

 it fhould feeme, that they haue had their originall from about Sufis, a chiefe 

 Citie of Perfia. 



The Time. 



They flower in May moft vfually, before any of the other kindes. 



The Names. 



They haue been fent vnto vs, and vnto diuers other in other parts, from 

 Conftantinople vnder the name of Alaia Sujiana, and thereupon it hath 

 been called, both of them and vs, either Iris Chalcedonica, or Su/iana, and for 

 diftinftion maior or minor: In Englifh, The Turkic Flowerdeluce, or the 

 Ginnie Hen Flowerdeluce, the greater or the lefler. 



Iris alba Florentina. The white Flowerdeluce. 



The great white Flowerdeluce, hath many heads of very broad and flat long leaues, 

 enclofing or folding one within another at the bottome, and after a little diuided one 

 from another toward the top, thin edged, like a fword on both fides, and thicker in the 

 middle : from the middle of fome of thefe heads of leaues, rif eth vp a round ftiffe ftalk, 

 two or three foot high, bearing at the top one, two, or three large flowers, out of feue- 

 rall huskes or skins, confifting of nine leaues, as all the other do, of a faire white colour, 

 hauing in the middle of each of the three falling leaues, a fmall long yellow frize or 

 thrume, as is moft vfuall in all the forts of the following Flowerdeluces, both of the 

 greater and fmaller kindes : after the flowers are paft, come the feed, inclofed in thicke 

 fhort pods, full fraught or ftored with red roundifh and flat feede, lying clofe one vpon 

 another : the roote is tuberous or knobby, fhooting out from euery fide fuch like tube- 

 rous heads, lying for the moft part vpon or aboue the ground, and faftened within the 

 ground with long white firings or fibres, which hold them ftrongly, and encreafeth 

 F/ore pallido. faft. There is another like vnto this laft in all things, fauing that the colour of the 

 flower is of a more yellowifh white, which we vfually call a Straw colour. 



Iris alba maior verficolor. The white party coloured Flowerdeluce. 



This variable Flowerdeluce is like vnto the former, but that the leaues are not fo 

 large and broad, the flower hereof is as large almoft, and as white as the former, but it 

 hath a faire lift or line of a blewifh purple downe the backe of euery one of the three 

 vpright leaues, and likewife round about the edges, both of the vpper and lower 

 leaues, and alfo a little more purplifh vpon the ridge of the arched leaues, that couer 

 the falling leaues : the roote hereof is not fo great as of the former white, but a little 

 flenderer and browner. 



Iris Dalmatica maior. The great Dalmatian Flowerdeluce. 



This greater Flowerdeluce of Dalmatia, hath his leaues as large and broad as any 

 of the Flowerdeluces whatfoeuer, his ftalke and flower doe equall his other propor- 

 tion, 



