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The (jar den of pleafant blowers. 
thereof j NarciJJ w Autumnalts minor albus and wee in Englifh therenfb-r 
The little white Autumne Daffodill. g “ thereafter, 
Ntrciflits albut Autumnalis medio ob folet us. 
The white Autumne Daffodill with a fullen crowne. 
This Autumne Daffodill hath twoorthree leaues at the moft, and very narrow fo 
that fomedoe reckon it among the Rulh Daffodils, being fomewhat broad at the bot 
tome, and more pointed at the toppe,betweene thefe lcaues commeth vp the (hike 
bearing vfually two flowers and no more at thetoppe, made of fixe white leaues a 
peece pointed and not round : the cup is fmall and round, like vnto the cup or crowne 
of the leaf! Rulh Daffodill, of a yellow colour at the bottome, but toward the edge of 
a dunne or fullen colour. ° cor 
N arc iff ts angnfiifoliiu lutem femper florens Coccini. 
The yellow Italian Daffodill of Caccini. 
This Daffodill beareth a number of fmall, long, narrow, and very greene leaues 
broader then the leaues of any Rulh Daffodill, among which rife vp diuers (hikes 
bearing at the head two or three flowers a peece, each of them being fmall and yellow 
the cup or crowne is fmall alfo, of a deeper yellow then the flowerf T he Nobleman of 
Florence, who farft fent this plant to Chriftian Porret at Leyden, after the death of Ca 
rolus Clulius, writeththat eueryfblke doth beare with him more Hereof flower*' 
then are formerly fet do wne, and thatitneuerceafeth to beare flowers, but that after 
SSr 0 pkces fta k£S HaUC bee " “ fl0VVer t0gCthCr ’ andare P aft » fhcrefuceced other S 
The Place. 
to vs* 16 * S natU1 a11 of s P ain » the naturali place of the other is not known 
The Time. 
The times i of the flowring, are fet downebothin the title and in the de- 
fcnptions ; the one to be in Autumne, the other to be all the Summer long. 
The Names. 
f J^tine names arc impofed on them, as are fitted: for them, and the 
laft by that honourable man that fent it, which is moft fit to continue and 
nottobeechanged. Butwee to let it beeknowne by an Enghfl'name to 
Enghlh people, haue entituled it, Theyellow Italian Daffodill of Caccini- 
content ^ can ® lue a more pro?er name , 1 lhall bee therewith right well 
Narcifliu angufltfolius flute Tuncifoliut maximus amplo calice. 
The great Iunquilia with the large flower or cup. 
nP ^ ,th ° th ‘ S Daffod , iI , 1 im P 0rt f h b y bis name, not to be of this family, but of the 
nextjConfidenngit is fo like vnto them , but bigger; yet I haue thoughtgood to place 
u h K Cnd f° f ^ ? arrow lcafcd DafFodlls ’ as b '‘ng indifferent, whether it 
fliould bee referred to this or to that. For this carrieth diuers long greene leaue 
like vnto the other Rulh Daffodils, but thicker and broader, fo thatit may S 
out any great errour, bee reckoned among thefe narrow leafed Daffodils , bearing at 
thetoppe two or three very fame large flowers, with a large and more open cuope 
then in any other of the Rulh Daffodils, both of them of a faire yellow colour P yet 
hmh 1 PPC 31 n, C dC ? er th u n t1C fl0 ' Ver ’ and 3 little crumpled about the edges ’a^d 
hath a pretty (harpe fent: the roote is greater and longer then the other Ruff D’affo 
dill, and couered likewife with a blackiff coate. tto ' 
The 
