‘■The (garden of p leaf ant t lowers, 
mixed or ftriped together very variably, quickly fading as I faid before .-the feeders 
enclofcd in fmall cods, fothinne and tranfparent,that onemayeafily fee, and tell the 
feeds as they lye, which are of a brownilh red colour : the roote is fmall , blackilhand 
round, wrappcdinathickeskinneorhuske, made like vntoa net, orlomewhat like 
vnto the roote of the cloth of gold Crocus : when the plant is in flower , it is found to 
haue two rootes one aboue another , whereof the vppermoft is firme and found , and 
the vndermoft loofeand fpongie, in like manner as is found in the rootes of diuers O f- 
chides or Satyrions, Bee-flowers and the like, and without any good tafte, or fwcet- 
nelTeatall, although Clufius faith otherwife. 
Sifjrinchiam M/taritinicum. The Barbary Nut. 
There is another ofthiskinde, not differing from the former in any other notable 
part, but in the flower, which in this is of a delayed purplifh red colour, hauing in each 
of the three lower leaucs a white fpot , in ftead of the yellow in the former, but arc as 
foone fading as they. 
The Place. 
The former doe grow very plentifully in many parts both of Spsine and 
Portugall , where Guillaume Boel , a Dutch man heretofore remembred 
often in this Booke, found them 5 ofthe fundry colours fpecified , whereas 
Clufius maketh mention but of one colour that he found. 
The other was found in that part ofBarbary, where Fez and Morocco do 
{land, and brought firft into the Lowe- Countries. -but they are both very 
tender, and will hardly abide the hard Winters of thefc colder regions. 
The Time. 
The firft flowreth in May and Iune, the laft not vntill Auguft. 
The Names. 
The name Sifyriuchium is generally impofed vpon this plant , by all au- 
thors that haue written thereof, thinking it to bee the right Si/yrinchium of 
Theophraftus: but concerning the Spanilhnamc Nozelh* , which Clufius 
faith it is called by in Spaine, 1 haue beene credibly enformed by the afore- 
named Boel, that this roote is not fo called in thofe parts • but that the fmall 
or common ftript Crocus is called Ntzelba, which is fwcete in tafte, and 
defired very greedily by the Shepheards and Children , and that the roote 
of this Stfyrinchtnmoi Spanilh Nut , is without any tafte, and is not eaten. 
Andagaine, that there is not two kindes , although it grow greater, and 
with more flowers, in thofe places that are neare the Sea , where both the 
wafhing ofthe Sea water,and the moilture and ayre of the Sea, caufeth the 
ground to bee more fertile. This I thought good , from the true relation 
of a friend, to giue the world to vndcrftand,that truth might cxpell errour. 
TheVertues. 
« Thefc haue not been knowne to bee vfed to any Phy ficall purpofe , but 
wholly negle&ed, vnlelfc fome may eatc them, as Clufius reporteth. 
