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The Names. 
;• They are called eyther Hyacinth» s Hifpanicm minor Orientalis facie , as it is 
inthetitle, or Hyacinthus Orientalis facit , thatistofay, T licit (Ter .Spanifh 
Jacinth , like vnto the Orientali : yet fome haue called them , Hyacinthus 
Orientalis ferttinus minor. The leffer late Orientali Iacinth, that thereby 
they may be knowne from the reft. 
Hyacinth*! Hifianicus thfoletns. The Spanifh dunne coloured Iacinth. 
ThisSpanifhlacinthfpringethverylateoutof theground , bearing foure or hue 
fhort, hollow, aud foft whitifh greene leaues, with a white line in the middle of euery 
oneofthem, amongwhich rifevponeormoreftalkcs, bearingdiuers flowers at the 
toppes oftlftm, all looking one way, or (landing on the one fide, hanging downetheit 
heads, confifting of fix leaues, three whereof being the outermoft, lay open their 
leaues, and turne back the ends a little again : the other three which are innermoft, do 
as it were clofe together in the middle of the flower , without laying thcmfelues open 
at all , being a little whitifh at the edges : the whole flower is of a purplifh yellow co- 
lour, with fome white and green as it were mixed among it, of no fent at all : it beareth 
blacke and flat feede in three fquare, great, and bunched out heads : the roote is reafo- 
nable great, and white on the outfide, with many ftrong white fibres at it , which pe- 
rifh not ycarely, as the fibres of many other Iacinths doe, and as it fpringeth late, fo it 
holdeth his greene leaues almoft vntill Winter. 
There hath been another hereof brought from about Fez and Marocco in Barbary, 
which in all refpedts wasgrcatcr,but elfe differed little. 
There was another alfo brought from the Cape of good Hope , whofc leaues were 
flronger and greener then the former, the ftalke alfo thicker, bearing diuers flowers, 
confufcdly (landing vpon longer footc-ftalkes, yet made alter the fame fafhion, but 
that the three inner leaues were whitifh, and dented about the edges, otherwifethc 
flowers were yellow and grecnifh on the infide. 
The Place. 
Thefe plants grow in Spaine, Barbary, and Ethiopia, according as their 
names and deferiptions doe declare. 
The Time. 
Thefirflflowrethnot vntillIune;for,asIfaid, it is very late before it 
fpringeth vp out of theground, andholdeth his leaues as isfaid, vntill Sep- 
tember, in the incane time the feede thereof ripeneth. 
The Names. 
They haue their names according to the place of their growing ; for one 
is called Hyacinthus Hifpanicas objolciiertsctlans. The other is called alfo 
Hyacinthus Mauritania;. And the laft, Hyacinthus t_/£tbtoj.icus ol>folctm. la 
EnglifhjThcSpanifh, Barbary, or Ethiopian Iacinth, of adunneorduskie 
colour. 
Hyacinthus isinglicus 'Belgicus, vel Hifpanieus, 
Englifh Haref-bels,or Spanifh Iacinth. 
Our Englifh Iacinth or Haref-bels is fo common euery where, that it fcarce nec- 
dethanydefeription. Itbeareth diuers long and narrow greene leaues, not (landing 
vpright, nor yet fully lying vpon the ground, among which fpringeth vp the ftalke, 
bearing at the toppe many long and hollow flowers, hanging downe their heads all 
forwards 
