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cinth ; his ftalke is like wife long , (lender, and greene, bearing at the toppe two or 
three flowers at the mod, very double and full of leaues, o( a pure white colour, with- 
out any other mixture therein, hanging downe their heads a little, and are^reafonable 
fweetc. 1 haue this but by relation, not by fight , and therefore I can giue no further 
affuranceas yet. 
The Place. 
All thefe Orientali Iacinths, except the laft, haue beene brought out of 
Turkic, and from Conftantinoplc : but where their true originali place is, 
is not as yet vnderftood. 
The Time. 
The two firft (as is faid) flower the earlieft, fometimes before Chriftmas, 
but more vfually after, and abidea great while in flower,in great beauty, 
efpcciallyif the weather be milde, when as few or no other flowers at that 
time are able to match them. The other greateft kinde flowreth alfo earlier 
then the reft that follow , for themoft part. The ordinary kindes flower 
fomeinMarch,andfomein Aprill, andfomefooneralfo • and fodoethe 
double ones likewife. The bufhy ftalkcd Iacinth flowreth much about the 
fame time. 
The Names. 
The former two forts are called Hyacinthm Orientalis Brumalis, and Hya- 
cinthus Orientalis praeox flare alba, or caruleo, The third is called of many 
Zumbul /ndicum.ot Zumbul Indi, and corruptly Simbaline ; of others, and 
that more properly , Hyacinthus Orientalia maiar pracox. ThcTurkesdoe 
call all Iacinths Zumbul, and by adding the name of Indi, or Arabs, do (hew 
. from what place they are receiued. InEnglilh, The greateft Orientali Ia- 
cinth; yet fome doe call it after the T urkilh name Zumbul Indi, or Simbaline, 
as is faid before. The t eft haue their names fet downe in their titles, which 
are moftfit for them. 
Hyacinthus Htfpankm minar Orientalis facie. 
The little Summer Orientali Iacinth. 
This little Iacinth hath fciire or flue long narrow greene leaues, lying vpon the 
ground,among which rifeth vp a (lender fmooth ftalke, about a fpanne high or more, 
flute carats,, bearing at the toppe many (lender bleake blew flowers , with fome white ftripes and 
edges robe feene in moft of them , faibioned very like vnto the flowers of the Orien- 
tali Iacinth, but much fmaller : the flower hath no fent at all ; the feede is like the (cede 
of the Englifti Iacinth, or Haref bels : the roote is finall and white. 
fi m aft,,. There is another of this kinde , differing in nothing but in the colour of the flower, 
which is pure white. 
Flan rubciitei There isalfo an other, wbofe flowers are of a fine delayed red'colour, with fome 
deeper co!ouredvcines,runningalongthcthrceouterleauesof the flower, differing 
in no other thing from the former, . 
The Place. 
Thefe plants haue been gathered on the PyrenatanMountaines, which 
are next vnto S paine, from whence, as is often faid , many rare plants haue 
likewile been gathered. 
The Time. 
They flower very late, euen after all or moft of the Iacinths , in May for 
themoft part,- 
The 
