i z8 The (jar den of f leaf ant Flowers. 
common receiued cuftome of thofe times , that called all deepe blew co- 
lours, fuch as are purples, and the like, blacke ; for the Violet it felfe is like- 
wife called blacke in the fame place, where he calleth the P tcinhm blacke]; 
fo that it feemeth thereby, that he reckoned them to be both of one colour, 
and we know the colour of the Violet is not blacke, as We doe diftinguifli of 
blacke in thefedayes. But the colour of this Starry Iacinth, being both of 
fo deepe a purplefometimes,fonearevntoaVioletcolour,andalfomore 
frequent, then any other Iacinth with them, in thofe places where Virgil 
liued,perfwadeth me to thinke, that Virgil vnderftood this Starry Iacinth 
by Pacinium : Let others ludge othcrwife, if they can (hew greater probabi- 
Iiti'c. 
r. Hyxcinthw Stellatus Byzantinus nigra radite. 
The Scarry Iacinth af Turkie with the blacke roote. 
This Starry Iacinth of Conftaatinople hath three or foure frelh green e, thinne, an»! 
long leaues, ofthe bignefleof the Englifnlacinth, but notfo long, bctweenc which ri- 
feth vp a (lender lowe ftalke, bearing flue or fix fmall flowers, difperfedly fet thereon 
fpreading open like a ftarre, of a pale or bleake blew colour : the leaues of the flowers 
are fomewhat long, and (land as it were fome what loofly , one off from another , and 
not fo compaftly together , as the flowers of other kindes : it fcldomc bearethripe 
feede with vs. becaufc the heads are lb heanie, that lying vpon the ground , they rotte 
with the wet, or arc bitten with the frofts,or both,fo that they feldome come to good: 
the roote is fmall in fome, and reafonable bigge in others , round, and long, whire 
within, but couered with deepe reddifti or purplifh peelings, next vntoit , and darker 
and blacker purple on the outfide, with fome long and thicke white fibres, like fingers 
hangingac the bottome of them, as is to be feene in many other Iacinths : the 1 aotc it 
felfe for the mod part doth runne do wnewards, fomewhat deep into the ground. 
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t. Hyacinthus Stellatus Byzantinus mater. 
The greater Starry Iacinth of Conftantinoplc. 
This Iacinth may tightly be referred to the former Iacinth of Conftantinoplc, and 
called the greater, it is fo like thereunto, that any one that knoweth that, will foone 
fay, that this is another of that fore , butgreateras it is in all his parts, bearing larger 
leaues by much , an d more (lore , lying vpon the ground round about the roote : it 
beareth many lowe ftalkes of flowers, as bleake, and (landing as loofly as the former : 
onely the roote of this, is not black on theoutfide, as the other,but three times bigger, 
3 . Hyacinthus Stellatus Byzantinus alter, [me fler e her aginis. 
The other Starry Iacinth of Conftantinoplc. 
This other Iacinth hath for the mod part onely foure leaues , broader andgreener 
then the firft, but not fo large or long as the fecond : the ftalke hath fiue or fix flowers 
vpon it, bigger and rounder fet, like other ftarry. Iacinths, of a more perfect or deeper 
blew then either ofthe former, hauinga whitilh greene head or vmbone in the mid- 
dle, befet with fix blew chiues or threeds,tipt with blacke, fo clofly conapaffing the 
vmbone , that the threeds feemc fo many prickes ftucke into a clubbe or head - fome 
therefore haue likened it to the flower of Borage, and fo haue called it : after the flow- 
ers are pad, come vp round white heads, wherein is contained round and white feede : 
the roote is ofadarkewhitifh colour on the outfide, and fomerttnes 3 little reddifh 
withall. r I . : 
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The firft and the lad haue beene brought from Conftantinople • the 
firft among many other rootes, and the lad by the Lord Zouch , as Lobel 
witneffeth. The fecond hath been fent vs out of the Lowe- Countries , but 
from whcncethey had it, we do not certainly know. They growe with vs in 
eur Gardens fufficiently. 
