7 be (jar den of f leaf ant Flowers. 
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Tulip* N*rhmcttfis,(iue Monfpclienfirvel pumilio. 
The French or dwarfe yellow Tulipa. 
ThisTulipais very lilcevnto the yellow BoloniaTulipa, both in roote, leafe, and 
flower, as alfo in the colour thereof, being yellow: the onely difference is, that it is 
in all things letter and lower, and is not fo apt to beare, nor fo plentifull to encreafe by 
the roote. 
Tulip* Italic t maior dr minar. The Italian Tulipa the greater and the Idler. 
BoththcfckindesofTulipasdoefoneere refemble the laft kinde , thatlmight al- 
moft fay they were the fame, but that fome difference which Ifawinthem, maketh 
mee fetthem apart ; and confifteth in thefe things, the dalkes of neither of both thefe 
rifefohigh,asofthefirft yellow BoloniaTulipa: the leaues of both forts are writhed 
in and out at the edges , or made like a waue of the fea, lying neerer the ground, and 
the flower being yellow within, is brownifh or reddifli on the backe, in the middle of 
the three outer leaues the edges appearing yellow. Both thefe kindes doe differ one 
from the other in nothing, bur in that one is bigger, and theother fmallerthentheo- 
thcr which I faw with Iohn T radefcante, my very good friend often remembred. 
Tulip* Lujit*mc*,fiae pumili» vtrficolor. Thedwarfeftript Tulipa. 
This dwarfe Tulipa is alfo of the fame kindred with the three laft deferibed ; for 
there is no other difference in this from them, then that the flower hath fome red veins 
running in the leaues thereof. 
There are two other forts of dwarfe Tulipas with white flowers, whereof Lobel 
hath made mention in the Appendix to his Aiuerfaria the one whereof is the fame 
that Cluflus fetteth forth, vnder the title of Pumilio altera ; but becaufe I haue notfeen 
either ofthem both, I fpeake no further of them. 
Tulipa pumilio alia. The white dwarfeTulipa. 
But that white flower that Iohn Tradefcante fhewed me, and as hce faith, was deli- 
uered him for a white Pumilio, had a flalke longer then they fet out theirs ro haue, 
and the flower alfo larger, but yet had narrower leaues then ocher forts of white Tu- 
lipas haue. 
Tulipa Bicolor. The fmall party coloured Tulipa. 
Vnto thefe kindes, I may well adde this kinde of Tulipa alfo, which was fent out of 
Italy, whofc leaues are fmall, long, and narrow,andof adarkegreenecolour, fome- 
what like vnto the leaues of an Hyacinth: the flower is fmall alfo, confiding of fixe 
leaues, as all other Tulipas doe, threewhereofarewholly ofared colour, and the o- 
ther three wholly of a yellow. 
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Tulipa Perfica. The Pcrfian Tulipa. ... f) 
This rare Tulipa, wherewith we haue beene but lately acquainted, doth mod fitly 
deferue to be deferibed in this place, becaufeit dothfo neerely participate with the 
Bolonia and Italian T ulipas,in roote,leafe, and flower : the roote hereof is fmall , co- 
uered with a thicke hard blackifli (hell or skinne, with a yello wilh woollineffe both at 
thetoppe,andvnderthe(hell. Itrifethoutof the ground atthe fird, with one very 
long and fmall round leafe, which when it is three or foure inches high , doth open it 
fclfe, and ihew forth another fmall leafe (aslongalmoflasthe former) breaking out 
of the one fide thereat, and after it a third, and fometitnes a fourth, and a fift j but each 
fhorter then other, which afterwards be of the breadth of the dwarfe yellow Tulipa, 
or fomewhat broader, but much longer then any other, and abiding more hollow, and 
of the colour of tjfje early T ulipas on the infide s the flalke rifeth vp a foot and a halfc 
high 
