1 86 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



but that the leafe is of a little paler greene colour, and the flower is of a faire whitifh 

 colour, with fome purple at the bottome of the leaues. 



Next after thefe narrow leafed Flowerdeluces, are the greater and fmaller forts of 

 dwarfe kindes to follow ; and laftly, the narrow or grafTe leafed dwarfe kindes, which 

 will finifh this Chapter of Flowerdeluces. 



i. Chamairis latifolia maior alba. The greater white dwarfe Flowerdeluce. 



This dwarfe Flowerdeluce hath his leaues as broad as fome of the letter kindes laft 

 mentioned, but not fhorter ; the ftalke is very fhort, not aboue halfe a foote high or 

 thereabouts, bearing moft commonly but one flower, feldome two, which are in fome 

 of a pure white, in others paler, or fomewhat yellowifh through the whole flower, ex- 

 cept the yellow frize or thrume in the middle of euery one of the falling leaues : after 

 the flowers are paft, come forth great heads, containing within them round pale feed : 

 the roote is fmall, according to the proportion of the plant aboue ground, but made 

 after the fafhion of the greater kindes, with tuberous peeces fpreading from the fides, 

 and ftrong fibres or firings, whereby they are faftened in the ground. 



2. Chamaeiris latifolia maior purpurea. The greater purple dwarfe Flowerdeluce. 



There is no difference either in roote, leafe, or forme of flower in this from the for- 

 mer dwarfe kinde, but onely in the colour of the flower, which in fome is of a very 

 deepe or blacke Violet purple, both the toppes and the fals : in others the Violet pur- 

 ple is more liuely, and in fome the vpper leaues are blew, and the lower leaues purple, 

 yet all of them haue that yellow frize or thrume in the middle of the falling leaues, 

 that the other kindes haue. 



Altera. There is another that beareth purple flowers, that might be reckoned, for the fmal- 



neffe and fhortneffe of his ftalke, to the next kinde, but that the flowers and leaues of 

 this are as large as any of the former kindes of the fmaller Flowerdeluces. 



3. Ghamceiris latifolia minor alba. The leffer white dwarfe Flowerdeluce. 



There is alfo another fort of thefe Flowerdeluces, whofe leaues and flowers are 

 leffe, and wherein there is much variety. The leaues of this kinde, are all for the moft 

 part fomewhat fmaller, narrower, and fhorter then the former : the ftalke with the 

 flower vpon it fcarce rifeth above the leaues, fo that in moft of them it may be rather 

 called a foote-ftalke, fuch as the Saffron flowers haue, and are therefore called of ma- 

 nie a/cauXoi, without ftalkes ; the flowers are like vnto the firft defcribed of the dwarfe 

 kindes, and of a whitifh colour, with a few purplifh lines at the bottome of the vpper 

 leaues, and a lift of greene in the falling leaues. 



Stramlnea. Another hath the flowers of a pale yellow, called a Straw colour, with whitifh 



ftripes and veines in the fals, and purplifh lines at the bottome of the vpper leaues. 



4. Chamairis latifolia minor purpurea. The leffer purple dwarfe Flowerdeluce. 



The difference of this from the former, confifteth more in the colour then forme of 



the flower, which is of a deep Violet purple, fometimes paler, and fometimes fo deep, 



that it almoft feemeth blacke : And fometimes the fals purplifh, and the vpper leaues 



blew. Some of thefe haue a fweete fent, and fome none. 



Ctenlea. There is another of a fine pale or delayed blew colour throughout the whole flower. 



5. Chamairis latifolia minor fuauerubens. 

 The leffer blufh coloured dwarfe Flowerdeluce. 



This Flowerdeluce hath the falling leaues of the flower of a reddifh colour, and 

 the thrumes blew : the vpper and arched leaues of a fine pale red or flefh colour, cal- 

 led a blufh colour ; in all other things it differeth not, and fmelleth little or nothing 

 at all. 



6. Chamairis 



