The (j Arden of fleafant Flowers. 
ger below then aboue, ofa very pale or white blew, tending to an afh colour, and very 
lweete in fmell : the feede is blacke and round, likevntothe feedeef the Eaglifh Ia- 
cinth, and fo is the rootc, being great, round, and white; fo like, I fay, that it is hard to 
know the one from the other* 
The Place. 
The certaine originali place of growing thereof, h not knowpe to vs. 
The Time. 
It flowreth in Aprill. 
TheNames. 
Some doe call this Hytctnthus Semeri, Somers Iacinth , bccaufe asLobel 
faith, he brought it firft into the Lowe-Countrics, cyther from Conftanti- 
nople,oroutofltaly. ....... 
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JJyuinthus SteBatur Ltliftlit & rtiite c*nlt9. 
The blew Lilly leafed Starre Iacinth. 
This Iacinth hath fix or feuen broadgreenc leaues, fomewhat likevnto Lilly leaues^ 
but (horter (whereof it tookehis name as well as from the rootc) fpread vpon the 
ground, and lying clofe and round .’before the (hike rifeth out from the middle of 
thefe leaues, there doth appeare a deepc hollow place, like a hole, to bee feene a good 
while, which at length is filled vp with the ftalke , rifing thence vnto a foote or more 
high, bearing many ftarre-like flowers at the toppe, of a perfect blew colour, neare 
vnto a Violet, and fometimes of paler or bleake blew colour, hauing as it were a fmall 
cuppe in the middle, diuided into fix pecces, without any threeds therein : the feede i» 
blacke and round, but not (hining: the roote is fomewhat long , biggebelowe, and 
fmall aboue, like vnto the fmall roote of a Lilly , and compofcd of yellow feales , as a 
Lilly, but the feales are greater, and fewer in number. 
Hymnthus stcJUtui Lilifolim a/A*t.The white Lilly leafed Starre Iacinth. 
The likeneffe of this Iacinth with the former , caufeth me to be briefe , and not to 
repeatethe fame things againe,that haue already been expreffed : You may therefore 
vndcrftand, that except in the colour of the flower, which in this is vvhire , there is no 
difference betweene them. 
tt«t tarn, 1 beare of one that fhOuld bearc blulh coloured flowers , but I haue not yet feene 
any fuch. 
The Place. 
Thefe Iacinths hane been gathered on the Pyrcnseaa Hils, in that part of 
France that is called Aquitaine, and in fomc other places. 
The Time. 
Thefe flower in Aprill, and fometimes later. 
TheNames. 
Becaufc the roote is folike vnto a Lilly, as the leafe is alfo, it hath 
mod properly beene called Hytcinthns SteUttus Lilifolit & rtdiee, or for 
breuity Liliftlim , that is, The Starry Lilly leafed Iacinth. It is called 
S*rdhnghy the Inhabitants where it groweth, as Clufius maketh the re- 
port from Venerius, who farther laith, that by experience they haue 
found the cattell to fwdl and dye, that haue eaten of the leaues thereof. 
Hjtsiatbtts 
