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the top out of 4 thin skinny husk,one or two flowers,of a fnow-white 
colour, {maller, fhorter and ronnder than thofe of the greater kind, 
with nine leaves ftanding in the fame fafhion , the three falling leaves 
having a yellow {pot in-eachof them; the arched leaves are divided 
aad turn up theends; and the other three cop-leaves are longer than 
thofe of the greater kind, and ftand uprights the feeds are like thofe 
of the former but leffer, and the roots are yellower, fhorter, and noc 
fo hairy, very apt to off-fet, whereby they are foonincreafed, This 
defcription may ferve for the reft of this kind that follow , therefore 
we will onely add the feyeral names by which fome of the belt age. 
received, and the difference ot the colours that are in the flowers of 
others that wantnames, 
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There is another white, that is bigger in all the parts thereof than — 
the former, the ftalk taller, and the flowers larger, but not of fo 
‘pure a white colouras the other; and having that yellow {pot in the 
three falling leaves asin all others. 
There is another like the firft in fize and fathion , whofe falling 
leaves havea little thew of yellownefs in them , and fo have the mid- 
dle ridges of the arched leaves, but the upright or top-leaves are 
white, 
We have another witha fmall flower as white as the fecond, the 
lower leaves are fo {mall, that the yellow {pot covereth almoft all 
the ends thereof, ftanding outright ; the arched leaves arealfo fmall 
and long, and the top-leaves bend in the middle and meet at the 
There is another kind called the Spanifh yellow , that rifeth nos 
high as ufually the reft do, the flower is like the firft, but of anex: 
cellent deep Gold-yellow colour throughout the whole flower, 
And another that rifeth as high as the fecond 5 with pale yellow 
flowers, with a deep yellow {pot ; of this there: are diverfities , fome 
bigger and fome leffer, fome with paler and fome with deeper yellow 
flowers, and one with the falling leaves white, except the yellow {por 
which is common to all the bulbous F lower-de-lnces. 
We have one called the party-coloured Spanifh , whofe falling 
leaves are white, the arched leaves filyer colour , and the top-leaves 
of ablewith purple; of this fort there is another that hath the falling 
leaves cirled with blew, the arched leaves pale blew, and the top- 
leaves purple, 
There is another called the early Portugal, that is fmaller in all the 
parts thereof than the former, the flowers ftand round and neat, in 
fafhion likethe spanifh yellow, buc Wholly of a fair blewith purple 
colour, except the yellow {pot which is in the three falling leaves, 
We 
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