The (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 6 7 
haue a convulfion in their necke, (which wee call a cricke in the necke) if it 
be drunkein harfh (which ive call red) wine. 
That the roots of Tulipas are nouriihing, there is no doubt, the plcafant, 
or at lead the no vnpleafant tafte* may hereunto perfwade ; fordiuershauc 
had them fent by their friends from beyond Sea, and miftaking them to bee 
Onions, haue vfed them as Onions in their pottage or broth, and neuer 
found any cauie of mi(like,orany fenfeofeuill quality produced by them, 
but accounted them fweete Onions. 
Further, I haue made tryallofthem my felfe in this manner. Ihauepre- 
ferued the rootes of thefe Tulipas in Sugar, as I haue done therootes of E- 
ringus, Orchis, or any other fuch like, and haue found them to be almoft as 
plcafant as thcEringus rootes, being firmeand found, fit to be prelented to 
the curious; but for force of Venereous quality ,1 cannot fay,either from my 
felfe, not hauing eaten many, or from any other, on whom I haue bellowed 
them : but furely, if there be any fpeciall propertie in the rootes of Orchis^ 
or fome other tending to that purpofe , I thinkc this may as well haue it as 
they. Itfliouldfeeme, that Diofcorides doth attribute a great Venereous 
faculty to the feede , whereof I know not any hath made any efpcciall ex- 
periment with vs as yet. 
Chap. IX. 
Ntrcijfus. The Daffodill. 
T Herc hathbeene great confufion among many of our moderne Writers of 
plants, in not diftinguifhing the manifold varieties of Daffodils 5 for euery one 
almoft, without confideration of kinde or forme, or other fpeciall note , gi- 
ucthnamesiodiucrfly one from another, that if anyone (hall receiue from feuerall 
places the Catalogues of their names (as I haue had many ) as they fet them down, and 
compare the one Catalogue with the other, he (hall fcarce haue three names in a dozen 
toagree together, one calling that by one name, which another calleth by another, that 
very few can tell what they meane. And this their confufion, in not diftinguilhing 
the name oiNureiffits from rfatdonurcijfus, is of all other in this kinde the greateft and 
groflefterrour. To auoide therefore that gulfe, whereof I complaine that fo manie 
haue bin endrenched; andto reduce the Daffodils into fuch a methodicall order, that 
euery one may know, to what cUfsis or forme any one doth appertaine, Iwillfirft 
diuidethem into two principali or primary kindes : that is, into N&rcijfos, true Daffo- 
dils, and Pfeudomrcijfes, baftard Daffodils: which diftimftion I hold to be mod necef- 
farie to be fet do wne firft of all, that euery one may be named without confufion vnder 
his owne primary kind, and then to let the other parts of the fubdiuifion follow, as is 
properto them, andfitteftto expreflethem. Nowtocaufeyouto vnderftand the 
difference bet weene a true Daffodill and a falfe, is this ■ it confifteth onely in the flow- 
er, (when as in all other partsthey cannot bee diftinguifhed) and chiefly in the middle 
cup or chalice ; for that we doe in a manner onely account thole to bee Pfeudtntrcijfos, 
baftard Daffodils, vvhofe middle cup is altogether as long, and fometime a little longer 
then the outter leaues that doe encompalTe it, fo that it feemeth rather like a trunke or 
long nofc, then a cup or chalice, fuch as almoft all the Ntrcifii, or true Daffodils haue; 
I fay almoft, becaufclknowthat fomeof them haue their middle cup fo (mall, that 
werathercallitacrownethcnacup;andagaine, fome of them haue them folong, 
that they may feemtobeofthe number of the Pfittdonircjsi, or baftard Daffodils: but 
yet may eafily be kno wne from them, inthat,’althoughthecupoffomc of the true 
Daffodils be great, yet it is wider open at the brim or edgc,and not fo long and narrow 
all alike as the baftard kin des are • and this is the chiefe and onely way to know ho W to 
feuerthefe kindes, which rule holdcth certaine in all, except that kinde which is called 
Ntrccijfm ittncifolim reflext fltre , whole cup is narrow, and as long a-s the leaues that 
turne vpagatne. 
Secondly, 
