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he (jar den of plea) ant l* lowers. 
But there is another ofthiskinde like vnto the former, whofe further defeription 
you haue here before; the wings of which flower are much more white then the for- 
mer, and in a manner ofamilke white colour, the trunke remaining almoft as yellow 
as the former, and not differing in any thing elfe. 
Pfeudonarcijfus tulo fexangulari.Thc fix cornered baftard Daffodill. 
This kinde of Daffodill hath two or three long, and fomewhat broader leaues then 
the laft, between which commeth forth a ftalke , bearing one flower fomewhat large, 
hauing the fix outer leaues of a pale yellow colour, and the long trunke plaited or cor- 
nered all along vnto the very edge into fix parts, of a little deeper yellow then the 
wingS - The Place. 
The firft great Spanifh kinde was brought out of Spaine. The reft from 
the Pyrenaran Mountaines, onely the laft fauing one is plentifull in our 
owne Countrey, but the white fort of that kinde came with the reft from 
the fame Mountaines. 
The Time. 
The pale or third kinde, and the Englifhbeethemoft early, all the reft 
flower in Aprill,andthe greateftyellow fomewhat earlier, then the other 
greater or lcffer white. 
The Names. 
Their feuerall names are exprefled in their titles fufficienttodiftinguilh 
them, and therefore there needeth no more to be faid of them. 
i . PfeudonarciJJhi tureus maximus flare pleno, line Rofeus Trade/cant i. 
The greateft double yellow baftar d Daffodill, or 
lohn T radefcant his great Rofe Daffodill. 
This Prince of Daffodils (belongeth primarily to lohn Tradefcant,asthe firft foun- 
der thereof, that we know, and may well bee entituled the Glory of Daffodils) hath a 
great round roote, like vnto other Daffodils, couered with a brownifh outer skinne or 
peeling, from whence rifethvp foure or fiue fomewhat large and broad leaues, of a 
grayifh grecne colour, yet not fully fo long and largeas the next following Daffodill: 
from the middle whereof rifethvpaftalke almoft as high and great as it,'" bearing at 
the toppe (out of a skinnie hbske) one faire large great flower (the budde, before it 
breake open, being fhorter and thicker in the middle, and ending in a longer and (har- 
per point then any of the other Daffodils) very much fpread open, confifting of fmal- 
ler and (horter leaues then the next, but more in number , and thicker and rounder fet 
together, making it feeineas great and double as any Prouincc Rofe, and intermixt 
with diuers yellow and pale leaues , as it were in rowes one vnder another. Ir abideth 
lohg in flower, and fpreadeth,by (landing long, to be. the broadeft in compafle ofany 
■of the Daffodils , but fiftieth away at the 
Daffodils doe. 
.ft without giuing anyfeode, as all double 
2 .Pfeudonarcijfus aureus Anglicus maximus 
M'.Wilraers great double Daffodill. 
The other great double Daffodill doth fo neare refcmble our ordinary Englifh 
double kinde, that I doe not finde therein any greater difference, then the largeneffc 
both of leaues and flowers, &c. and the ftatelinefle of growth. It bearerh three or 
foure large, long, and broad leaues, fomewhat longer and broader then the former 
and ofawhitilh grefine colour: the ftalke rifeth to bee two footc high, growing 'in a 
fruitfull andfat foyle)ftrong, and fomewhat round, bearing atthetoppe, out of a thin 
skinne, one great and faire double flower, each leafe whereof is twice as Large and 
broad 
