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ski? coloured Grape-flower, his flowers are very pure white, alike fparfedly Teton the 
ftalkes, but a little lower and fmallerthenit,in all other things there is no diffeience. 
Hyicinthus'B etroides flere elbe rubente. The blulh Grape-flotvcr. 
The roote of this Grape-flower groweth greater, then either the skie coloured , or 
white Grape-flower, and feldome hath any fmall rootes or of-fets, as the other haue : 
his leauesa!foarelarger,and fomewhat broaderjtheflowersareofapale, orbleake 
blufhcolouroutofawhite,andarealittlelarger, and growalittle higher and fuller 
of flowers then the white. 
The Place. 
They naturally grow in many places both of Germany and Hungary ; in 
Spaine likewife, and on Mount Baldus in Italy , and Narbonein France, a- 
bout the borders ofthe fields : we haue them in our Gardens for delight. 
The Time. 
Thefe flower from the beginning of March, or fooner fometimes, vn- 
till the beginning of May. 
The Names. 
Theyaremoft commonly called 'Botroides , but more truely Botryodes, 
of Bfayut the Greeke word, which fignifieth a bunch or clufterof grapes : 
Lobelius calleth the white one, Dipcadi flore albe, transferring the name Dip- 
cadi, whereby the Maflcari is called to this Iacinth, as if they were both one. 
Their fcuerall names, whereby they are knowneand called , are fet downc 
in their titles. The Dutchmen call them Driuekens, as I laid before. Some 
Engliih Gentlewomen call the white Grape-flower Pearles of Spaine. 
i. Hyacinthus Cemoflus albus. The white hairedlacinth. 
This Iacinth doth more neerly referable the Grape- flowers , then the faire haired 
Iacinths that follow, whereof it beareth the name, in that it hath no haireorthreeds 
at the toppeofthe ftalke or fides, as they : and therefore I haue placed it next vnto 
them, and the other to follow it,as being of another kinde. The root hereof is blackifh, 
a little long and round, from whence rife vp three or foure leaues , being Imooth and 
whitifh, long, narrow, and hollow, like a trough or gutter on the vpperfidc: among 
which the ftalke rifeth vp a foote high or more, bearing at the toppe diuers fmall flow-, 
ers, fomewhat like the former, but not fo thickc fet together, being a little longer, and 
larger, and wider at the mouth, and as it were diuided into fix edges, of a darke whitifh 
colour, with fotne blacker fpots about the brimmes on the infide : the heads or feede- 
vefTels are three fquare, and fomewhat larger, then the heads of any of the former 
Ieffer Grape-flowers, wherein is contained round blacke feede. 
2. Hyacinthus Cemoflus Byzantinus. The T urkie faire haired Iacinth. 
This other Iacinth which came from Conftantinople, is fomewhat like the former,’ 
butthatitisbigger,bothinroote,andleafe,and flower, and bearing greater ftore of 
flowers on the head of the ftalke : the lower flowers, although rhey haue fhort ftalkes 
at their firft flowring, yet afterwards the ftalkes grow longer, and thofe that are lower, 
ftand out further then thofe that are higheft, whofe foot-ftalkes are fhort, and al- 
moft clofe to the ftemme, and of a more perfeift purple then arty below, which are of a 
duskie greenifh purple colour : the whole ftalke of flowers feem like a Pyramis, broad 
belowe,and fmallaboue, or as other compare it, to a water fprinkle;yet neither of 
both thefe Iacinths haue any threeds at the tops of the ftalkes , as the other following 
haue. 3. Hyacinth us 
