The (garden of p leaf ant Flowers, 
kinl^sofboth forts • fo I thinke it not amiffe,to finifh this of the Iacinths with the de- 
fcription of a Sea Iacinth, which (as you fee) I take to be the Sulk, or Sea Onion , all 
his parts fo nearely refcmbling a Iacinth, that I know not where toranke him better 
then in this place, or rather not any where but here. You fnall hauethedefeription 
thereof and chen let the iudicious palfe their fentence, as they thinke meetc/l. 
The Squill or Sea Onion (as many doe call it)hath diuers thicke leaues, broad, long, 
ereene and hollo villi in the middle, and with an eminent or fwdling ribbe all along 
thebackc of the leafe, (I relate it as I haue feene it,hauing (hot forth his leaues in the 
fhip by the way , as the Miriners that brought diuers rootes from out of the Straights, 
did fell them to mee and others for ourvfe) lying vpon the ground, fomewhat like 
vnto the leaues of a Lilly : thefe fpring vp after the flowers are part, and the feed ripe, 
they abiding all the Winter, and the next Spring, vnnll the heate of the Summer hath 
fpe it and wnfumed them, and then about the end of Auguft,or beginning of Septem- 
ber the ftalke with flowers arifeth out of the ground a foote and a halfe high, bearing 
many flarre-like flowers on the toppe, in a long fpike one aboue another, flowring by 
decrees, the lowed fir A, and fo vpwards, whereby it is long in flowring , very like, as 
Well in forme as bigneife, to the flowers of the great Starre of Bethlehem (thefe flow- 
ers I haue likewife feene (hooting out of fomc of the rootes, that haue been brought in 
the like manner: ) after the flowers are pad , there come vp in their places thicke and 
three fquarc heads,wherin is contained fuch like flat, black, and round feed, as the Spa- 
nilhduskic Iacinth before deferibed did beare, but greater : the root is great & white, 
couered with many peelings or couerings, as is plainly enough feen to any that know 
diem and that fometimes wee haue had rootes, that haue beeneasbiggeasa pretty 
childes head, and fometitnes two growing together, each whereof was noleffe then 
is faid of the other. 
Scitti rubra ftue Tuner ilium verni». The red Sea Onion. 
The roote of this Squill, is greater oftentimes then ofthe former , the outer coates 
or peelings being reddidi, bearing greater, longer, differ, and more hollow leaues, in 
a manner vpright: this bringeth fuch a like ftalke and flowers, as the former doth , as 
Fabianus Ilges, Apothecary to the Duke of Briga, did fignifie by the figure thereof 
drawnc and fent to Clufius. 
The Place. 
They gro wal way esneare the Sea, and neuer farre off from it, but often 
ontheverybaich of the Sea, where it wafheth ouer them all along the 
coafts of Spaine, Portugal , and Italy , and within the Straights in many 
places : it will not abide in any Garden farre from the Sea, no not in Italy, 
as it is related. 
The Time. 
The time wherein they flower, is expreffed to be in Auguft and Septem- 
ber: the feede to be ripe in O&ober and Noucmber,and the greene leaues 
to fpring vp in Nouember and December. 
The Names. 
Thefe are certainly thetrue kindes of SciBx that fhouldbec vfed in medi- 
cines, although (as Clufius reporteth) the Spaniards forbade him to tafte of 
the red Squill , as of a moft ftrong and prefent poifon. Pliny hath made 
move forts then can be found out yet to this day with vs : that Scilla that is 
called Epimenidia, becaufe it might be eaten, is thought to be the great Orni- 
thegalum, or Starre of Bethlehem. Pancratium is, I know , and as I faid be- 
fore, referred to that kinde ofbaftard Sea Daffodill , which is fet forth be- 
fore in the end of the hiftory of the baftard Daffodils ; and diuers alfo 
would make the Narcijfus tertius Matthitli, which I call the true Sea Daffo- 
dill, to be a Pancratium-hut feeing Diofcorides (and no other is againft him) 
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