1 3 o j The (jar den of plea) ant Flowers. 
being bro wnilh and round, but not lo fl.it as in other forts, the roots are more browne 
on the outfidc, and growing tuberous thicke, as all other that are kept in Gardens. 
Iru Chxlcidon'ua fine Sufiana minor. The leflcrTurkie Flowerdeluce. 
There is another hereof little differing, but that the leafeis of a more yellowifir 
greenc colour, and the flower neither fo large or faire , nor of fo perfpicuous markes 
and fpots, nor the colour of that liuely (though darke) luftre. 
The Place. 
Thefe hauebeen fentout ofTurkie diuers times among other things, and 
it fhould feeme, that they haue had their originali from about Sufis,a chiefe 
CitieofPerfia. 
The Time. 
They flower in May moft vfually, before any of the other kindes. 
The Names. 
They haue been fent vnto vs, and vnto diuers other in other parts , from 
Conftanrinople vnder thename of ^ilaia Suftana , and thereupon it hath 
been called, both of them and vs, either Iru chaleedomca, or Sufi ana, and for 
thftin&ion mxior or minor : lnEngli(h,The Turkie Flowcrdeluce, or the 
GinnieHen Flowerdelucc, thegreaterorthelelfer. 
Iris ail'd Flortntina. The white Flovverdeluce. 
The great white Flowerdeluce, hath many heads ofvery broad and flat long leaues, 
enclofing cr folding one within another at thebottome, and after a little diuided one 
from another toward the top, thin edged, likea fword on both fides, and thicker in the 
middle: from the middle of lomc of thefe heads of leaues,rifeth vp a round ftiffc ftalk, 
two or three foot high, bearing at the top one,two,or three large flowers, out of feue- 
rall huskes or skins, confiding of nine leaues,as all the other do, ofa faire white colour, 
hauing in the middle of each of the three falling leaues , a fmall long yellow frize or 
thrume, as is moft vfuall in all the forts of the following Flowerdeluccs , both of the 
greater and fmaller kindes : after the flowers are paft, come thefeed,inclo(ed in thicke 
(hort pods, full fraught or ftored with red roundiflj and flat feede, lying clofe one vpon 
another : the rootc is tuberous or knobby , (hooting out from euery fide fuch like tube- 
rous heads, lying for the moft part vpon or aboue the ground, and fattened within the 
ground with long white firings or fibres, which hold them ftrongly , and encreafeth 
thrciiViJt. There is another like vnto this laft inallthings, failing that the colourof the 
flower is ofa more yellowifii white, which we vfually call a Straw colour. 
Iru alba malar rerficolor. The white party coloured Flowcrdeluce. 
This variable Flowerdelucc is like vnto the former, but that the leaues are notfo 
large and broad, the flower hereof is as large almoft, and as white as the former, but it 
hath a faire lift or line of a blewifti purple downethebacke of euery one of the three 
vpright leaues , and likewile round aboutthc edges, both of the vpper and lower 
leaues, and alfo a little more purplifh vpon the ridge of the arched leaues , t hat couer 
the falling leaues: the roote hereof is not fo great as of the former white, buta little 
flendercr and browner. 
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Iru Dalmatica maior. The great Dalmatian Flowerdelucc. 
This greater Flowerdelucc of Dalmatia , hath his leaues as large and broad as any 
of the Flowerdeluces whatfoeucr , his ftalkc and flower doe ecyuuil his other propor- 
