fair yellow, Howering firlt below, and fo- upwards 
bv degrees-, every one ot’rhefe Flowers is made like 
unto a little Pitcher or Bottle, being big in the bel- 
ly and Imall ar the mouth, which is round and a 
little turned up, very fweet in Intel 1 , like unto Musk, 
from whence it took the Name M ufcan- alter the 
Flowers are pall there come threel'quare thick Heads, 
puffed up, like as it were Bladders, made ol a ipon- 
gv lhbff mce, in which are here and there placed 
black round' Seed. „ _ , . x . , , 
IV. The fcconi , or Great Afh Colored Masked 
Grape Flowered Jacinth. It his a Root like the for- 
met hn yields wre cncreafe, andwt/lhfierendurr. 
our cold Clim.it e, altho it does more Jellom give i ipe 
Seed: This Alufiari differs not in Roots or lorm ol 
Leaves or Flowers From the former, excepting in 
thele following particulars , the Leaves do not ap- ; 
pear fo red at firlt budding out ot the Ground nor 
are fo dark when they are fully grown, the Stalk 
alio lias commonly more ltore of flowers thereon, 
the color of which at their fill! budding is a 'toe 
dusky, and when they ate full blown are ot a bleak, 
yet bright Afh color, with a little (hew ot purple ml 
them, and by long tending change a little more grey, 
being full as fweet, or lweeter, as lome think, than 
third, or Great Red Musked Grape Flow-' 
ere 1 Jacinth. 'Ibis Plant in its Root , Leaves, Stalk, 
f, rover, Sped, and manner of growing, is abjolutey 
like to the fir /?,' excepting only in the color or the 
Flowers, tor that this when its Flowers are blown 
are of a red color, tending to a yellow. 
VI The fourth, or Great White Musked Grape 
Flowered Jacinth. The Root of this (ns well ns the 
Root of the third aforegoing) docs not uj unify grow jo 
large as the Root of cither of thejirji two , in all other 
refpclts it is like to them -, the Leaves are like unto 
the l'econd kind, but they are of a little whiter green 
the Flowers alfo ate like in form and manner or 
prowing, but of a pale color, tending to a while. 
VII. The Places. The Roots of the wo firlt have 
often been brought from Conjhmtinople to us, and 
poiftbly may come thither from beyond the Bojpho- 
rus in Afia, but with us they are nurfed up only in 
Gardens-, the latter two forts are thought to be de- 
generates from the firlt two Kinds, to wit, from 
their Seed coming to ripenels in- our Country, and 
fo lovvn here. „ , , 
VIII. The Times. They Flower in March and 
April according to the warmth or temperature or 
the Seafon, but the firlt of them I'prings firlt out ot 
the Ground. , „ 
IX. The Qualities and Virtues. Galen Lib. S. 
Simp dll',/, lays its temperature is hotter than that 
of the Bulluis EJ'culcntus , or Ornithogalum luteum , 
and Diojeori.les lays that the Root eaten or the De- 
coftion thereof drunk, cures Difeafes of the bladder, 
but that it caufes Vomiting, without doubt it ought 
to be applied by a Wife and Prudent Hand; out- 
wardly made into an Ointment, it is good againlt 
the Kings-Evil, for by daily , anointing therewith it 
difeuffes and confumes thole fcrophulous Tumors, 
Kernels, or Swellings. 
II. The Kinds. There are five feveral forts of 
the Haired Kind, viz. V Hyacinthus Comofus albus , 
The White Haired Jacinth. 2. Hyacinthus Comofus 
Byzanttnus , The Turky Fair Haired Jacinth. ? • 
Hyacinthus Comofus major purpureas, of fome its 
called only Hyacinthus major , and of others Hyacin- 
thus Comofus major, but we in Enghjh call it The 
Purple or Great Purple Fair Haired Jacinth, be- 
anie of its Tufts or Taffels of purple Threads like 
Hairs at the top. 4. Hyacinthus Comofus Ramofus 
purpurem, fome call it only Hyacinthus Comofus 
Ramofus , others Hyacinthus Calamijlratus, others 
Hyacinthus Comofus Parnajfi , The Fair Haired 
Branched Jacinth. 5. Hyacinthus Comofus Eleganti- 
or, Hyacinthus Comofus Ramofus Elegant tor, Hyacin- 
thus Pennalus, and Hyacinthus Comofus ParmJJi, 
Fair Curled Haired Jacinth ; fome will have it to 
he called alfo Hyacinthus Ca/ami/iratus, others think 
Cincinnati^ more fit and proper, for that the curled 
Threads which feem like Hairs are better expreiied 
by the Word Cicinms , which fignifies the curled 
btilh of Hair it felf, than by the Word Calamiftrum, 
Dll 111 Ol Ildll 1L * J , T /l ' 
which fignifies only • the Crifping-Pm or Inltrument, 
vt, herewith of Old they ufed to trizze or curl the 
Hair. 
CHAP. CCCXCIV. 
Of JACINTH Haired. 
I.t-pt H E Homes. It is called in Greek 'T aKivQQ- 
JL r tipfj'ot, in Inline Hyacinthus Comofus, in 
Enghjh The Haired Jacinth. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firfi, or White Hair- 
ed Jacinth. It has a bulbous blackijh Root, a little 
long and round, from whence rife up three or four 
Leaves, fmooth and whitijh, long, narrow, and hol- 
low, hike a Trough or Gutter on the upper fide-, from 
among which fprings up the Stalk, about a Foot ot 
more high, bearing at the top feveral Flowers, Email, 
and fomewhat like to the Grape Flower, but not fo 
thick fet together, being a little longer and larger, 
and wider at the mouth, and as it were divided in- 
to fix edges, of a dark whitifil color, with fome 
blacker fpots about the brims on the infide ; the 
Heads or Seed Veffels are threefquare, and fomewhat 
larger than the Heads of any of the former Leffer 
Grape Flowers in Chap. 292. in which are contained 
round black Seed; this Jacinth does more nearly re- 
femble 
