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6. Chamairis latifrlia minor lutea verficolor. 

 The lefler yellow variable dwarfe Flowerdelucc. 



The tailing leaues of this Flowerdeluce arc yellowifh, with purple lines from the 

 middle downewards, fometimes of a deeper, and fometimes of a paler colour, and 

 white thrumes in the middle, the vpper leaues are likewife of a yellowifh colour, with 

 purple lines in them : And fometimes the yellow colour is paler, and the lines both in 

 the vpper and lower leaues of a dull or dead purple colour. 



3. Chamairis latifolta minor ceerulea verficolor. 

 The lefler blew variable dwarfe Flowerdeluce. 



The vpper leaues of this flower arc ot a blewifh yellow colour, fpotted with purple 

 in the broad part, and at the bottome very narrow : the falling leaues are fprcad ouer 

 with pale purplilh lines, and a fmall (hew of blew about the brimmcs : the thrume is 

 yellow at the bottome, and blewilh aboue : the arched leaues are of a blewifh white, be- 

 ing a little deeper on the ridge. 



And fometimes the vpper leaues are of a paler blew rather whitilh, with the yellow : 

 both thefe haue no fent at all. 



8. Chamairis marina purpurea. The purple dwarfe Sea Flowerdeluce. 



This fmall Flowerdeluce is like vnto the narrow leafed Sea Flowerdeluce before 

 defcribed, both in roote, leafe, and flower, hauing no other difference, but in the fmal- 

 nelle and lownefle of the growing, being of the fame purple colour with it. 



9. Chamairis angujtifolia maior. The greater Grafle Flowerdeluce. 



This Grafle Flowerdeluce hath many long and narrow darke greene leaues, not fo 

 Itiffe as the former, but lither, and bending their ends downe againe, among which 

 rife vp diuers llalkes, bearing at the toppe two or three fweete flowers, as fmall as any 

 of them fet downe before, of a reddifli purple colour, with whitifh yellow and purple 

 ftrakes downe the middle of the falling leaues : the arched leaues are of a horfe flefh 

 colour all along the edges, and purple vpon the ridges and tips that turne vp againe : 

 vnder thefe appeare three browne aglets, like vnto birds tongues: the three vpper 

 leaues are fmall and narrow, of a perfecl purple or Violet colour : the heads for feede 

 haue (harper and harder cornered edges then the former : the feedes are fomewhat 

 grayifh like the former, and fo are the rootes, being fmall, blacke, and hard, growing 

 thicke together, fattened in the ground with fmall blackifh hard firings, which hardly 

 fhoote againe if the roote be remoued. 



10. Chamairis angujtifolia minor. The lefler Grafle Flowerdeluce. 



This Flowerdeluce is in leaues, flowers, and rootes fo like the lafi defcribed, that 

 but onely it is fmaller and lower, it is not to be dillinguifhed from the other. And this 

 may fuffice for thefe forts of Flowerdeluces, that furnifh the Gardens of the curious 

 louers of thefe varieties of nature, fo farre forth as hath parted vnder our knowledge. 

 There are fome other that may be referred hereunto, but they belong to another hi- 

 llory ; and therefore I make no mention of them in this place. 



The Place. 



The pkces of moft of thefe are fet downe in their feuerall titles; for 

 fome are out of Turkic, others out of Hungaria, Dalmatia, Illyria, &c. 

 as their names doe import. Thofe that grow by the Sea, are found in 

 Spaine and France. 



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