- LOR A Book I. 
_ drs bulbofa major verficolor. 
TH great variable coloured bulbons Flower-de-luce hath the three 
falling leaves of the flower of a pale filver-colour, witha circle of 
_afh-colour about the yellow fpot, the arches are of the fame filver- 
colour, ridged with afh-colour; andthe top leaves alfo ftriped and 
veined with blew, 
Irs bulbofa major flore rubente. 
T# ¢ great pale red or Peach-colonred bulbous F lower-de-luce is more 
rarethan any of the former ; the flowers are in fafhion like thofe 
of the purple, at of a pale red colour like unto the bloffome of a 
Peach, witha {mall yellow {pot in each of the three falling leaves, 
Iris bulbofa major flore albo. 
qe great white bulbous Flower-de-luce is fomething bigger than 
the farftcommon blew; the fowers when they are full-blown 
are of a pure {now-white colour, with a {mall yellow {pot in the middle 
of the three falling leaves, : 
Tris bulbofa mayor flare albo maximo. } 
pe great white bulbous Iris with the bigzeft flower is like the laft, 
but fomething bigger ; the flowers are longer and larger, of the 
fame fnow-white colour, and fometimes the three top-leaves will be 
alittle ftriped and {potted with a faint purple colour. I have divers 
blews, murrey, and violet purples, fome deeper, and others lighter, 
all large flowers,which I raifed from the feeds of this great white, and 
one deep blew with fmall ftripes of white through every leat of the 
flower, and of more than an hundred, I had but two whites, the one 
more, the other lefs ftriped than the original, 
Tris bulbofa major alba variegata. 
“He great white ftriped bulbous F lower-de-Lluce hathia {maller flower 
than the firft white, of the fame pure white colour, and finely 
{triped and marked with veins, ftripes, and drops of a thining watcher 
or blew colour throughout every leaf thereof ; this is by many called 
the ¢urcelaz Iris, from the colours and manner of marking, refem- 
bling that ofa China dith, = 
Tris bulbofa major flore albo es purpureo variegata, 
| ee great white bulbous Iris ftriped with purple next to the peach co- 
& lour is the rareft of all the great bulbous Flower -de luce; the flowers 
are ser ae as the firft white, of the fame pure white colour, 
and excellently Tiped and marked through every leaf thereof with 
purple 
