54 The (jar den of pie a f ant t lowers. 
' highfometimes, bearing one flower thereon , compofed of fixe longand pointed 
leaues ofthe forme of other fmall Tulipas, and not flicwing much bigg r then the yel- 
low Italian T ulipa, and is wholly white, both infide and otitfide of al I the leaues , ex- 
cept the three outtermoft, which haue on the backe of them, from the middle toward 
the edges, a (lie w ofabrownifli blufli, or pale red colour, yet deeper ir themidft , and 
the edges remaining wholly white : the bottomcs of all thefe leaues arc bfa dark e or 
dun tawnie colour, and the chiues and tippes ofadarkilh purple ortawnie alfo. ‘I his 
doth bearc feed but feldome in our Country, that euer I could vnderftand,but when it 
doth, it is fmall like vnto the Bolonia or dwarfeyellow Tulipas.being not fo plenrifull 
alfo in parting, or fettingof by the rooteas they, and neucr groweth nor abideth fo 
great as it is brought vnto vs, and feldome likcwife flovvreth after the firft yeare : for 
the rootes for the mod part with euery one grow Idle and lefle, decaying euery yeare, 
and fo perifli for the mod part by reafon ofthe frofts and cold, and yet they haue been 
let deepe to defend them, although of their owne nature they will runne downe deep 
into the ground. r 
Tulip* Byzantina duebm floribus Cluflj. The fmall T ulipa of Conftantinople. 
The fmall Tulipa of Conftantinople, bearethfor the moftpart but two leaues on 
the ftalke, which arc faireand broad , almoft like vnto the Candy Tulipa , next here- 
unto to be dercribed : the ftalke it felfe rifeth not aboue a foote high , bearing fome- 
times but one flower, but mod commonly two thereon , one below another , and are 
no bigger then the flowers ofthe yellow Bolonia Tulipa, but differing in colour ; for 
this isontheoutfideofa purplilh colour, mixed with white and greene, and on the 
infide ofa faire blufli colour, the bottome and chiues being yellow, and the tippes or 
pendents blackifli : the rootc is very like theyellow Bolonia Tulipa. 
Tulipa Cretica. The T ulipa of Candie. 
This Tulipa is oflater knowledge with vs then thePerfian, but doth more hardly 
thriue, in regard of our cold climate ; the defcription whereof, for fo much as wee 
haue knowledge, by the fight ofthe rooteandleafe, and relation from others of the 
flower, (for I haue not yet heard that it hath very often flowred in our Country) is as 
followeth. It bearerh faire broad leaues, refembling the leauesof a Lilly ,of a greenifli 
colour, and not very whitifh : the ftalke beareth thereon one flower, larger andmore 
open then many other, which is eyther wholly white, or of a deepe red colour, or 
elfe is variably mixed, white with a fine reddifh purple , the bottomes being yellow, 
with purplifli chiues tipt with blackifli pendents .-the rooteis fmall, and fomewhat 
like the dwarfeyellow Tulipa, but fomewhat bigger, 
Tulipa Armeniaca. The Tulipa of Armenia. 
This fmall Tulipa is much differing from all the former (except the fmall or d warfe 
white Tulipas remembred by Lobel and Clufius, as is before fet downe) in that it 
beareth three or foure finally long, and fomewhat narrow greene leaues, altogether at 
one ioynt or place ; the ftalke being not high, and naked or without leaues from them 
to the toppe, where it beareth one fmall flower like vnto an ordinary red Tulipa, but 
fomewhat more yellow , tending to an Orenge colour with a blackebotrome: the 
roote is not much bigger then the ordinary yellow Bolonia Tulipa, before fet downe. 
And thefe are the forts of this firft Clafsu of early Tulipas. 
Tulipa media. The meaner or middle flowring Tulipa. 
For any other, or further defcription of this kinde of Tulipa, it (hall not ncede, ha- 
uing giuen it fufficiently in the former early Tulipa , the mainc difference confiding 
firft in the time of flowring, which is about a monech after the early T uli pas, yet fome 
more fome lefle : for euen in the Pracoces, or early ones, fome flower a little earlier, and 
later then others, and then in the colours ofthe flowers - } for wee haue obferued many 
* colours. 
