184 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



2. Iris angujtifolia maior cterulea. 

 The greater blew Flowerdeluce with narrow leaues. 



This kinde of Flowerdeluce hath his leaues very long and narrow, of a whitifh 

 greene colour, but neither fo long or broad as the laft, yet broader, thicker and ftiffer 

 then any of the reft with narrow leaues that follow: the ftalke rifeth fometimes no 

 higher then the leaues, and fometimes a little higher, bearing diuers flowers at the top, 

 fucceffiuely flowring one after another, and are like vnto the flowers of the bulbous 

 Flowerdeluces, but of a light blew colour, and fometimes deeper : after the flowers 

 are part, rife vp fix cornered heads, which open into three parts, wherein is contained 

 browne feede, almoft round: the roote is fmall, blackifh and hard, fpreading into 

 many long heads, and more clofely growing or matting together. 



3. Iris angujtifolia purpurea marina. The purple narrow leafed Sea Flowerdeluce. 



This Sea Flowerdeluce hath many narrow hard leaues as long as the former, and 

 of a darke greene colour, which doe fmell a little ftrong: the ftalke beareth two or 

 three flowers like the former, but fomewhat lefle, and of a darke purple or Violet co- 

 lour : in feede and roote it is like the former. 



4. Iris anguftifolia purpurea verficolor. 

 The variable purple narrow leafed Flowerdeluce. 



The leaues of this Flowerdeluce are very like the former Sea Flowerdeluce, and do 

 a little ftinke like them ; the flowers are differing, in that the vpper leaues are wholl) 

 purple or violet, and the lower leaues haue white veines, and purple running one a- 

 mong another : the feede and rootes differ not from the former purple Sea kinde. 







5. Iris angujlifoha minor Pannonica Jiue verjicolor Clujij. 



The fmall variable Hungarian Flowerdeluce of CluJius. 



This Hungarian Flowerdeluce (firft found out by Clufius, by him defcribed, and 

 of him tooke the name) rifeth vp with diuers fmall tufts of leaues, very long, narrow, 

 and greene, growing thicke together, efpecially if it abide any time in a place ; among 

 which rifeth vp many long round ftalkes, higher then the leaues, bearing two or three, 

 or foure fmall flowers, one aboue another, like the former, but fmaller and of greater 

 beauty: for the lower leaues are variably ftriped with white and purple, without any 

 thrume or fringe at all ; the vpper leaues are of a blewifh fine purple or Violet colour, & 

 fo are the arched leaues, yet hauing the edges a little paler : the heads for feede are 

 fmaller, and not fo cornered as the other, containing feedes much like the former, but 

 fmaller : the roote is blacke and fmall, growing thicker and clofer together then any 

 other, and ftrongly faftened in the ground, with a number of hard ftringie rootes : the 

 flowers are of a reafonable good fent. 





6. Iris anguftifolia maior flore duplici. The greater double blew Flowerdeluce. 



This Flowerdeluce, differeth not either in roote or leafe from the firft great blew 

 Flowerdeluce of Clufius, but onely in that the leaues grow thicker together, and that 

 the flowers of this kinde are as it were double with many leaues confufedly fet toge- 

 ther, without any diftincl: parts of a Flowerdeluce, and of a faire blew colour with 

 many white veines and lines running in the leaues ; yet oftentimes the ftalke of flowers 



thath but two or three fmall flowers diftinftly fet together, riling as it were out of one 

 huske. 



7. Iris angujtifolia minor alba Clujij. 

 The fmall white Flowerdeluce of Hungary. 



This like wife differeth little from the former Hungarian Flowerdeluce of Clufius, 



but 



