over with fimall lines of puiple, 
ChapaxVL FLOR A 
very finall at the bottom , and of the breadch of a fix pence at the 
top; the whole flower in this, except the yellow {pot , is of a bleak 
heavy blew colour; the feed is round and of a yellowith brown co- 
Jour, contained inthree-fquare husks, wherein if it be ftirred when it 
is ripe ic willrattle ; the root is big and long, covered with a brown 
ftringy coats this is the moft common and the wort of all others, the 
reft chat follow are fine flowers, and fome of them very rare! 
Tris bulbofa major flore ceruleo elegantior. 
He great bulbous Iris with a rich blew flower, is in all things like the 
AL former, except the colour of the flower , which in this isarich 
thinidg blew colour , far excelling the other, and having that {pot 
which is in the lower leaves of all thefe Flower-de-luces, of 2 deep 
_ yellow inclining to an Orenge, i 30% | ; 
Lis bulbofa mayor fore ceruleo variegata jive chamoletta. 
| [te blew Priped Flower-de-luce is like the firht, the flowers of the 
fame blew-colour, but diverfly marked and ftriped throughout 
every leaf thereof, with a dark violet purple colour, refembling 
watered Chamolet. | 
; Iris buibofa major purpurea. 
Tee purple bulbous Flower-de-luce hath larger flowers than the 
firit common kind, the whole flower except the yellow fpor, is 
of a reddifh murry purple colour, | 
_ © Iris bulbofa major flore purpures ver feeolor. 
pe eveat purple varidble bulbous Flamer-de-luce bach the flowers 
_B fomewhat' leffer than the former, and of a rich murrey purple 
colour, witha {mall yellow fpot_in the falling leaves, marked with 
_ deeper brown ees almoft black, upon a lighter purple, like watered 
Chamolet,and therefore by fome called brown purpur Chamolet,and 
the former the blew Chamolet, by which mames the Walloons 
broughe them over out of Flanders 8 , 
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2 Ss Iris bulbofa major ure Ciner eal?! SEs qe 
= great fh=coloured bulbous F lower-de-luce hath one of two flow- 
ers on a ftalk, as big as the firft blew, which are ofan Afh or La- 
vender colour with a yellow {pot in the chree falling leaves, | 
Irs bulbofa major flare cinereo firiata. | 
ripe erect Afh-coloured priped balbous’Tris's Vike the laft, only the 
: flowe ‘ rs of chis being eae rane colour are ftriped and veined all 
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