j 2<5 9 * he (jar den of plea/ant Flowers. 
flowers; for this being found growing among both the other, hath his head of flow 
ers as great and large as the firft,but the buds of his flowers, before they are open, are 
ofadeepe blufh colour, which being open, are more delayed, andofa plcafam pale 
purple, or blufh colour, funding vpon purplifh ftalkes : the heads in the middle are 
whitifli, and foare the threcds compalfing it, tipt with yellow. 
The Place. 
Thefe doe naturally grow in Spaine, in the Medowes a little offfrom the 
Sea, as well in the Ifland Gadcs , vlually called Cales , as likewife in other 
parts along the Sea fide, asonegoeth from thence to Porto Santa Maria, 
which when they be in flower, growing fo thicke together , feemc to couer 
the ground, like vnto a tapiftty of diuers colours , as I haue beene credibly 
enformedby Guillaume Boel, a Freeze-lander borne, often before and 
hereafter remembred , who being in fearch of rare plants in Spaine, in the 
yeareofour Lord 1607. after that moft violent frofty Winter, which peri- 
fhed both the rootes of this, and many other fine plants with vs, fentmee 
ouerfome of thefe rootes for my Garden, and affirmed this for a truth, 
which is here formerly fet downe, and that himfelfe gathered thofe he fent 
mec,andmany others in the places named, with his owne hands; but hee 
faith, that boththatwiththewhite, and with the blufh flowers, are farre 
more rare then the other. 
The Time. 
They flower in May , the feede is ripe in Iuly. 
The Names. 
This hath beene formerly named Eriophorus Pir nanus , and Hyacinthus 
SteBatus Peruanus, The Starry Iacinth of Peru, being thoughtto haue grown 
inPcru,aProuinceoftheWeftIndics;but he that gaue that name firft vn- 
to it,eycherknew nothis naturali place, or willingly impofed that name, to 
conceale it , or to make it the better efteemed. It is moft generally recei- 
uedby the name Hyaiinthus Peruanus, from the firft impofer thereof , that 
is, the Iacinth of Peru: but I had rather giue the name agreeing moft fitly 
vnto it, and call it as it is 'm&czdt Hyacinthus SteBatus r B*ticus,1hzS$3X\\(i\ 
Starry Iacinth; and becaufc it is the greateft that I know hath come from 
thence, I call it, The great Starry Iacinth of Spaine, or Spanifh Iacinth. 
Hyacinthus StcBatus vulgaris, ftuc'Biftlisss Fuchjij. 
The common blew Starry Iacinth. 
this Starry Iacinth (being Iongcft kn owne, and therefore moft common) rifeth out 
of the ground, vfually but with two bro wne leaues, yet fometimes with three , inclo- 
fing within them the ftalke of flowers, the buds appearing of a darke whitifli colour, 
as foone as the leaues open themfelues, which leaues beinggrowne, are long, and hol- 
low, of a whitifli greene on the vpper fide, andbrowneon the vnder fide, and 
halfe round,the browne ftalke rifing vp higher , bcareth fiuc or fixe fmall ftarre-like 
flowers thereon, confifting of fix leaues, qfafaire dee pe blew, tending to a purple. 
The feede is yellowifh, and round, contained in round pointed heads , which by rea- 
fon of their heauinefle, and the weakneffe of the ftalke, lye vpon theground,and often 
perifli with wet and frofts, &c. The roote is fomewhat long , and couered with a yel- 
lowifh coate. ; V -.V. oj {'{■? 
Hyacinthus Jlellatus flare a/^.The white Starry Iacinth. 
The white Starry Iacinth hath his leaues like the former, but greene and frefh , not 
browne, and a little narrower alfo:thcbuddes for flowers at the firft appeare a little 
blufh, which when they are blowne, are white, but yet retaine in them a fmall fhew of 
that blufh colour. We 
