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The garden of pleafant Flowers. 
fcv-ir-r and asbi^ge as any mcanc Squilla or Sea Onion roote, hauing many long, 
thicke 'and white fibres, or long rootes, diuerfly branched , and fpread vnderrhe vp- 
per part of the earth , befidc fome others that grow downward, and perifb not euery 
veare as the fibres of all, or mod of the other Daffodils doe ; and therefore this plant 
will not thriue and beare flowers, if it be often tranfplanted, but rather defire to a- 
bidc in one place without remouing, as I faid, and that not to be ouerfhadoWed, or co- 
uered with other herbes {landing too neare it, which then will flourilh, andbearea- 
boundantly : from this roote, which is couered with many blackifh coates, arifeth fix 
orfeuen or more leaues, twice fo broad ahnoft, as any of the former Daffodils, but 
not fo long by halfe as many of them , being but fhort, in comparifon of the breadth, 
and of a white grecnc colour; from the middle of which leaues , as alfo from the fides 
foraetitnes fpringethvp oncor two, or more ftalkcs, roundifb and thicke, and fome- 
times a little flat and cornered, a foote high or fome what more , bearing at the toppe, 
out of a skinnie huskc, eight, ten, tweluc, or more very large flowers, confiding of fix 
white leaues a peecc, fpread or laid open, with a white fhortcuppeorcrowncinthe 
middle lyin'* flat vpon the leaues, cut or diuided into fix corners (and not whole, as 
thecuppeorcrowneof any other Angle Daffodill) from euery of which edges, or 
corners of this cup or crowne, ft andeth one white long thread, a little crooked or tur- 
ning vp at the end, tipt with a yellow pendent, and fome other white threads tipt with 
yellow pendents, (landing alfo in the middle : after the flower is paft , there come vp 
great three fquare heads, wherein the fefede is contained, which is great,blacke , and 
round, like vnto the feede of other Daffodils , but greater : the flower hath a reafona- 
ble good fent, but not very ftrong. 
The Placed 
Itwas firftfoundbytheSeafide,intheI(leof Sardinia, and onthehigh 
Mountaines alfo of the fame Ifle, where it hath borne by report, thirty flue 
flowers vponaftalkc : itgroweth likewife about Illyricum, andindiuers 
other places. 
The Time. 
Itfpringethlateroutof the ground then any other Daffodill, that is to 
fay, not vntill the later end of March, or beginning of Aprill, and flowreth 
in the end of May, or the beginning of Iunc : the feede is ripe in the end of 
Iuly, or beginning of Auguft, 
The Names. 
The fitft that hath made mention of this Daffodill, was Matthiolus, who 
placed it in the third place among his Daffodils, and is mod vfually now a- 
dayes called, N*rciJ]»t tertim Matt hi th , Matthiolus his third Daffodill, 
the rather, becaufe Clufius vpon a more mature deliberation , firft referred 
it thereunto, but called it at the firft, Lilimarciffm HemertcaUidU facie , and, 
ashec faith, Iacobus Plateau (who firft fent him the figure hereof, with the 
defeription) called it Lilienartipts Oriental* , but Clufius vpon certaine in- 
formation, that it grew in the places aforefaid, mifliked the nameof Or«w- 
tdlis, and added HemerocaBu , which yet is not fit, for that his Hemertcatot 
Valentina , is a plaine Pancration or Sea baftard Daffodill, whofe middle 
cup is longer then the cup of any true Daffodill , which (as I faid in the be- 
ginning ofthis Chapter) is the chiefeft note of difference , betweene a true 
and a baftard Daffodill. I receiued the feede of this Daffodill among many 
other feedes of rare plants, from the liberality of M r . Do&or Flud , one of 
the Phyfitians of the Colledge in London, who gathered them in the Vni- 
uetfity Garden at Pifa in Italy, and brought them with him, returning home 
from his trauailes into thofe parts, by the name of Martagcn rarifsimnm, 
(and hauing fowne them , cxpe&ed fourteene yearcs , before I faw them 
• bearc a flower, which the firft year? that it did flower, bore foure ftalkes of 
flowers. 
