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be (jar den of plea/ant Flowers. 
Ntrcifftu Cyprias fle re pleno luteo polyonthos. 
The double yellow Daffodill of Cyprus. 
The leaues of this Daffodill are almoft as broad and long as the former, the ftalke’is 
a foot high and more,bearing foure or fiue flowers on the top, euery one very double, 
and of a fine pale yellow colour, of a ftrong heady fent. The root of this is alfo like the 
former. 
The Place. 
The firft of thefe Daffodils, was firft brought into England by M r . Iohn 
deFranqueuille the elder, who gathered it in his owne Countrey of Cam- 
bray, where it groweth wilde,from whofefonne,MMohn de Franqueuille, 
now liuing, we all haue had it. The reft haue come from Conftantinople at 
fcuerall times; and thelaft is thought to come from Cyprus. Wee haue it 
credibly affirmed alfo, that it groweth in Barbary about Fez and Argiers. 
Some of the double white kindcs grow in Candy , andabout Aleppo alfo. 
The Time. 
TheTurkiekiodesdoeforthemoft part all flower early, in the end of 
March, or beginning of Aprill at the furtheft , and the firft double, about 
the middle or end of Aprill. 
The Names. 
All thefe Daffodils, except the firft, haue had diuers Turkifh names fet 
vpon the packets, wherein they haue been fent, but there is fmall regard of 
certainty to be expe&ed from them; for that the name Serine tie , without 
any more addition, which is a Angle Daffodill , hath beeneimpofed vpon 
that parcell of rootes, that haue borne moft of them double flowers of di- 
uers forts ; and the name Serincade Cotamer Lie , which fignifieth a double 
flowred Daffodill, hath had many fingle white flowers, with yellow cups, 
andfomewhofe flowers haue been wholly white, cuppe and all, and fome 
purple ringed, and double alfo among them. Their names, whereby they 
are knowne and called with vs, are, as fitly as may be,impofed in their titles: 
And this I hope fhall fuffice, to haue fpoken of thefe forts of Daffodils. 
Hauing finifhed the difeourfe of the former fort ofjjroad leafed Daffodils, it is fit t« 
proceede to the next , which are <^fngust if olios Nurcijfos , thofe Daffodils that haue 
narrow leaues, and firft to fet do wnethofe that bearefingle flowers, whether oneor 
many flowers vpon a ftalke,and then thofe that bcare double flowers in the fame man- 
ner. 
Ntrciffus Virginem. The Virginia Daffodill. 
This plant I thought fitteftto place herein the beginning ofthis clafsis , not finding 
where better to (hroud it. It hath two or three long, and very narrow leaues, as greene 
as the leaues of the great LeucoiumbuUo/um, and fhining withall, which grow fome- 
times reddifh, cfpecially at the edges : the ftalke rifeth vp afpanne high , bearing one 
flower and no more on the head thereof, (landing vpright like a little Lilly or Tulipa, 
made offix leaues, wholly white, both within and without, except that at the bottome 
next to the ftalke, and a little on the backfide of the three outer leaues , it hath a fmall 
dafh or (hew of a reddifh purple colour: it hath in the middle a fewchiues, (landing 
about a fmall head pointed ; which head groweth to bee fmall and long, containing 
fmall blackifh flat feede: the roote is fmall, long, and round, a little blackifh on the 
outfidc, and white on the infide. 
The 
