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The Time. 
This flowred inthe Garden of M'.Richard Barnefley at Lambeth, onely 
enceinthemonethofMay,intheyeare 1606. after hee had there prefer- 
ued it a long time : but neither he, nor any elfe in England that I know, but 
thole that faw it at that time,euer faw it beare flower, either before or fince. 
The Names. 
It is called by diuers Bulbas Eriophories, or Itniferm, that is, Woolly Bul- 
bous ; but becaufe it is a Iacinth, both in rootc, lea fe, and flower, and not a 
Ntrcijfus, or Daft’od ill, it is called Hyacinthos Eriophorus, or Laniferus, The 
Woolly Iacinth. It is very likely, that Theophraftus in his feuenth Book & 
thirteenth Chapter, did meane this plant, where hee declareth , that gar- 
ments were made of the woolly fubftance of a bulbous roote 1 , thatwas ta- 
ken from between the core or heart of the roote (which, as hee faith , was 
vfed to be eaten) andthcoutermoft fhels orpeelingS; yetCIufiusfeemeth 
to fatten this woolly bulbous of Theophraftus, vpon the next Iacinthof 
Spaine. 
Hyacinthus SteBatas % alicas maior, valgo Periit»»!. 
The great Spanifh Starry Iacinth, or of Peru. 
Thislacinth (the greateft ofthofe, whofc flowers are fpread like a ftarre, except the 
two firft Indians) hath flue or fix, or more, very broad, and long greene leaues, fpread 
vpon the ground, round about the roote, which being broken are woolly, or full of 
threeds, like the former : in the middle ofthefe leaues rifeth vp a round fliort ftalke, in 
comparifonof thegreatnefleof theplant (for the ftalke of the Orientali Iacinth is 
fometimes twice fo high , whofe roote is not fo great) bearing at the toppe a great 
head or bu(h of flowers, fafhioned in the beginning, before they bee blowne or fepa- 
rated, very like to a Gone or Pineapple,and begin to flowerbelowe , and fo vp wards 
by degrees, euery flower (landing vpona long blackilh blew foote- ftalke, which when 
they are blowne open, are of a perfedt blew colour, tending to a Violet , and made of 
fix fmall leaues, laid open like a ftarre - the threeds likewife are blewifh, tipt with yel- 
low pendents, (landing about the middle head, which is of a deeper blew, not hauing 
any good fent to be perceiued in it, but commendable only for the beauty of the flow- 
ers : after the flowers are pad, there come three fquare heads, containing round blacke 
feeder the roote is great, andfomcwhatyellowifh ontheoutfide, withaknobbeor 
bunch at the lower end of the roote, (which is called the feateofthe rootc) like vpto 
theMufcari, Scylla, and many other bulbous rootes, at which hang diuers white, 
thicke, and long fibres, whereby it is fattened in the ground, which perilh not euery 
year c, but abide continually, and therefore doth not defire much remouing. 
Hyacinthus SteBtlas 'B aticusjtue Per iit Has flore albo. 
The great white Spanifh ftarry Iacinth. 
This other Spanifh Iacinth is in mod parts like vnto the former , but that his leaues 
are not fo large, nor fo deep a greene : the (talks of flowers likewife hath not fo thicke 
ahead, orbufh on it, but fewer and thinner fetrthe flowers themfclues alfo are whitilh, 
yet hauing a fmall dafh of blufh in them : the threeds are whitiflyipt with yellow pen- 
dents : the feede and rootes are like vnto the former , and herein confifteth the diffe- 
rence betweene this and the other forts. 
Hyacinthus Stellatus Bat icus, flue Peruanus flore carnet. 
The great blulh coloured Spanifh Starry Iacinth. 
This likewife differeth little from thetwo former, but onely in the colour of the 
flowersj 
