The (garden of plea/ant t lowers. 
Hytc'mthui Autumn tin au/Vr.Thegrcatef Autumne lacinth. 
The greater Autumne lacinth hath fiueor fix very long and narrow gfecrie leaues, 
lying vpon the ground; the ftalkes arefetatthe toppe withmany ftarre- like flowers, 
of a pale blewifh purple colour, with fome pale coloured threeds, tipt with blew, 
(landing about the head in the middle, which in time growing ripe, contained therein 
fraall blackc feede, and roundilh : the rootc is great and white on the outfidc. 
Iljacintbus Autumn tin mitttr. The leflcr Autumne lacinth. 
This lefier lacinth hath fuch like long and fmall leaues , but narrower then the for- 
mer- the ftalke is not full fo high, but beareth as many flowers on it as the other, 
which arc of a pale or bleake purple colour, very like vnto it alfo : the roote and feed 
are like the former, but fmaller. Thcfe both for the moft part, beare their flowers and 
feede before the greene leaues rife vp much aboue the ground. 
There is a kinde hereof found that beareth white flowers, not differing in any other 
thing from the fmaller purple kinde lull mentioned. 
The Place. 
The firft and laft are onely kept in Gardens, and not knowne to vs where 
their naturali place of growing wilde may be. 
The fecond groweth wildein many places of England. I gathered diners 
rootes for my Garden, from the foote of ahighbankeby the Thames fide, 
at the hither end of Chelfey , before you come at the Kings Barge-houfe. 
The Time. 
The greateft flowreth in the end of Iuly, and in Auguft. 
The other in Auguft and September, you (hall feldomc fee this plant 
With flowers and greene leaues at one timetogether. 
The Names. 
They haue their names giuenthem,as they are expreffed in their titles, 
by all former Writers, except Dalefchampius , or her that fet forth that 
great worke printed at Lyons •, for hee contendeth with many words , that 
thefe plants can bee no Iacinths, becaufe their flowers appeaie before their 
leaues in Aurumne, contrary to the true Iacinth,as he faith: andtherefore he 
would faine haue it referred to fheaphrartm balbus in libra prime cap. i a . and 
callcth ithis Tiphyum mentioned in that place, as alfo balbus xfitvm Vale - 
ebampy. Howfoeuer thefe things may carry fomc probability in them, yet 
the likenefieboth of rootes, and flowers efpecially , hath caufed very lear- 
ned Writers to cntitlcthem as is fet downe,and theref ore 1 may not but let 
them pafle in the like manner. 
The Virtues. 
Both the rootes and the leaues of the Iacinths arc fomewhat cold and 
drying, but the feede much more. Itftayeththe loofnefle of the belly. It 
is likewife faid to hinder young perfons from growing ripe too foone, the 
rootc being drunke in wine. Ichelpeththemalfowhofevrineis ftopt. and 
isauaileable for the yellow Iaundife;butasyou hearcfomcaredeadi j to 
cattell, I therefore wifh all to bee well aduifed which of thefe they wil 1 vfc 
in any inward phyficke. 
SciSt alba. The Sea Onion or Squill. 
As 1 ended the difeourfe of both the true and the baftard Daffodils , withtheSea 
kindes 
