Chap. 199. Euglijh Herbs. 
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III. l hi Kinds of the Common Starry Jacinth. Of 
this there are’feven Species or Sorts, viz. 1. 
80 - dsez.ui J'mtaSM' Hyacintbus Stellatus Communis 
vcl Vulgaris , five Bifo/ius Fuchftj , Hyactnthus Stel- 
latus Fuchftj , Hyacintbus Stellatus Germanicus , The 
Common Blew Starry Jacinth. 2. Hyactnthus Stel- 
latus Wore a/bo. The White Flowered Starry Jacinth. 
2. Hyacintbus Stellatus Vlore rubente , The Blufh 
Colored Starry Jacinth. 4. Hyacintbus Stellatus 
Martins , five Prscox Cjtruleus , The Early Blew 
Starry Jacinth, y. Hyacintbus Stellatus pratcox Flo- 
re u/fo, The White Early Starry Jacinth. 6. Hya- 
cintbus Stellatus Wore Niveo , vel albijjimo , The 
Purdy White Starry Jacinth. 7. Hyacintbus Stel- 
latus pracox Wore fuave rubente , The Early Blufh 
Colored Starry Jacinth. 
IV. The Defcriptions. T he firft , «• Common 
Blew Starry Jacinth. Its Root is bulbous , fomewhat 
long , covered with ayellomifh Coat ; it rifes out 
of the Ground commonly with hut two brown 
Leaves, yet fometimes with three, inclofing within 
them the Stalk of Flowers, the Buds appearing of a 
dark whitifh color as foon as the Leaves open them- 
felves, which Leaves being grown ate long and hol- 
low, of a whitifh green on the upper fide, and 
brown on the under fide, and half round, the brown 
Stalk riling up higher, bearing five or fix fmall Star 
like Flowers, confifting of fix Leaves, of a fair deep 
blew, tending to a purple ; the Seed is yellowifh 
and round, contained in round pointed Heads or 
Husks, which by realon of their heavinefs and the 
weaknefs of the Stalk lie upon the Ground, and of 
ten perifh with Wet and Froft ; this Starry Jacinth 
has been longeft known, and is the moft common. 
V. The fecond, or White Flowered Starry jacinth. 
This White Kind for its Leaves like the former, but 
green andfrejh , not brown , and alfo a little narrow- 
er ; the Buds for the Flowers appear at firft a little 
blufh, but when they are blown they are white, but 
yet retain in them a finall (hew of that blufh color. 
VI. The third , or Blufh Colored Starry Jacinth. 
This in its Root , Leaves , a. Stalk, is exatl/y like 
the former, and differs nothin; herefrom but in the 
Flowers, which are of a fair blufh color, much more 
eminent than in the others, in all other particulars 
it is exactly alike. 
VII. The fourth, or Fatly Blew Starry Jacinth. Its 
Root is bulbous, and a little whiter than the others 
on the out fide ; its Leaves are alfo a little broader, 
of a frefher green, and not brown at all, as the firft 
Blew Jacinth aforegoing is; the Buds of the Flow- 
ers while they are inclofed within the Leaves, and 
after when the Stalk is grown up, do remain more 
blew than the Buds of the former ; the Flowers 
when they are blown open are like the former, bur 
fomething larger, and of a more lively blew color; 
this Kind of Jacinth does more leldom bear Seed 
than the others aforegoing. 
VIII. The fifth, or White Early Starry Jacinth. 
This is alfo one other of the fourth Kind, the green 
Leaves whereof are a little narrower than the for- 
mer, and its Flowers ate purely white, in any other 
relpeft ’there is no difference from it at all. 
IX. The fixth, or Purely White Starry Jacinth. 
This feems to be a Species of the fecond Kind afore- 
going, its Leaves are of a pale frefh green, and a 
little narrower than thofe, and its Flowers are (mai- 
ler than them, and of a pure Snow white color. 
X. T befeventb, or Early Blufh Colored Starry 
Jacinth. The Root is bulbous, and like to the other 
Starry Jacinths; the Leaves differ not from the fifth 
Kind, or White Early Slurry Jacinth, and its Flow- 
ers are blufh colored, and as large as thofe of the 
fifth Kind, and fomewhat larger than the Flowers 
of the fourth Kind; this Blufh Colored Jacinth is ve- 
ry rare, but it is very pleafant. 
XI. The Places. All thefe Jacinths have been 
found in the Woods and Mountains of Auftria, Bo- 
hemia, Germany, &c. as Fuchfius and Gefncr affirm, 
and in Italy, near Naples, as Imperatus and others 
fay, but with us they are all of them nutfed up in 
Gardens, more efpecially the White and Blufh Kinds, 
for that they are more tender, and therefore require 
the more care to keep them from perifhing. 
XII. The Times. The firft, fecond, and fixth 
Kinds Flower much about the middle of February, 
if the Weather is mild and gentle, the other Kinds 
about fourteen or twenty days after, viz. in March, 
but many times as early as the firft three. 
CHAP. CCCC. 
Of JACINTH Starry Peruvian. 
1 / I 'HE Names. It is called in Greek 'TdasliQ- 
JL deed m icr.-leji, in Latinc Hyacintbus Eriopho - 
rus , vel Hyacintbus Laniterus , Eriophorus Perua- 
nus, Hyacintbus Stellatus Peruanus vel America nits, 
Hyacintbus Peruanus , Hyacintbus Stellatus Batticits ’ 
in Enghjh The American or Peruvian Starry Ja- 
cinth, and The Spanijh Starry Jacinth. 
II. The Kinds. We make four feveral Species of 
this Plant, viz. 1. Hyacintbus Stellatus Curuleus 
Peruanus major , Hyacintbus Cxruleus Stellatus Bce- 
ticus major, Hyacintbus Cxruleus Americanus major. 
The Greater Blew Starry American or Peruvian Ja- 
cinth, The Greater Blew Starry Spanifli Jacinth. 2. 
Hyacintbus Stellatus Peruanus Wore a/bo, Hyacin- 
tbus Stellatus Albus Btcticus, The Great White Pe- 
ruvian 
