568 Salmon j* Herbal. Lib. f. 
hi via n Starry Jacinth, The Great Spanifh White 
Starry Jacinth. 3. Hyacinthus Stellatus Peruanus 
Flore Cameo , Hyacinthus Stellatus Baticus Flore Car- 
7100 , The Great Blufh Colored Starry American or 
Peruvian Jacinth, The Great Blufh Colored Starry 
Spanifh Jacinth. 4. Hyacinthus Eriophcrus \ five 
J ani ferns. Bulb us Eriophorus vel Laniferus , The 
Woolly Jacinth. 
Great Blew Starry Jacinth of Peru. 
111 . The Defcriptions. The firft , or Greater 
Blew Starry American or Peruvian' or Spanifh Ja- 
cinth. It has a great bulbous Root , and jomewhat 
yellow ifh on the out fide , with a knob or bunch at the 
lower end of the Root , ('which is called the feat of the 
Root ) like unto that of the Mufcari, or Scylla, and 
■many other bulbous Roots , from which hang down fe- 
ver al white , thick, and long Fibres , by which it is 
faftened into the Ground, which perifh not every Tear, 
but abide continually, and therefore does not deftre 
much removing from this Root fpring up five or fix 
or more very broad and very long green Leaves, 
fpread upon the Ground round about the Root, 
which being broken are woolly, or full of very fine 
Fibres, (whence came part of the Greek Name) from 
the middle of thefe Leaves rifes up a round fhort 
Stalk, (in companion of the greatnefs of the Plant, 
(for the Stalk of the Oriental Jacinth is fometimes 
twice as high, whofe Root is not fo great) bearing 
at the top a great Head or Bufh of Flowers, fafhion- 
ed in the begining, before they are blown or fepara- 
ted, very like to a 'Cone, or Fine- Apple-, they begin 
to Rower below, and fo upwards by degrees, every 
Flower Handing upon a long blackifh blew footftalk, 
Which when they are blown open are of a perfect 
blew color, tending to a Violet, and made of fix 
fmall Leaves laid open like a Star ^ the Threads like- 
wife are blewifh, tipt with yellow Pendents, Hand- 
ing about the middle Head, which is of a deep blew, 
not having any pleafant fmell to be perceived in it, 
but commendable only for the beauty of theFlow- 
ers ^ after the Flowers are pall threefquate or cor- 
nered Heads come in their places, containing round 
black Seed •, this Jacinth is the greateft of rhofe 
whofe Flowers are fpread like a Star, except the 
two firlt American ones deferibed in Chap. 391. 
aforegoing. 
IV. The fecond, or Great White Peruvian Jacinth. 
T he Roots tind Seed of this are like unto the former, 
fo it is a/fo in mojl of its other parts, but that its 
Leaves are not fo large, nor of fo deep a green, the 
Stalks of Flowers likevrife have not fuch thick Heads 
or Bullies on it, but the Flowers are fewer and thin- 
ner iet ; the Flowers themfelves alfo are whitifh, 
yet having a fmall dafh of blufh in them, and the 
Threads are whitifh, tipt with yellow Pendents, 
thefe are the chief particulars in which it differs 
from the former. 
V. The third, or Great Blufh Colored Starry Ame- 
rican or Peruvian Jacinth. This is found growing 
among the other, and differs but little from the two 
former , but only in the color of the flowers, for this 
has its Head of Flowers as great and large as the 
firft, but the Buds of its Flowers before they are 
open are of a deep blufh color, which being com- 
pleatly opened are more delayed, and of a pleafant 
pale purple or blufh color, handing upon purplifh 
Footftalks; the Heads in the middle are whitifh, 
and fo are the Threads encompaffing it, tipt with 
yellow. 
VI. The fourth , or Woolly Jacinth. Its Root is 
bulbous and white, fomewhat like to the Root of a 
Mufcari, which is or full ofWooll or fine fibres at 
the Leaves, or rather more than they, or any other 
part of it ; this Woolly Jacinth has many broad, 
long, and fair green Leaves, very like unto fome of 
the Jacinths , but (lifter, or (landing more upright 
which being broken do yield a multitude of imall^ 
fine, foft Fibres, as if a little fine Cotton Wooll 
was drawn out, from among thefe Leaves rifes up a 
long, round, green Stalk, a Foot and half high, or 
more, on which is fet a great long Bufh of Flowers, 
which blowing open by degrees, firft below, and fo 
upwards, are very long in flowering ; the top of the 
Stalk with the Flowers, and their little fmall Foor- 
ftalks, are all blew, every Flower Handing outright 
with its Stalk, and fpreading like a Star, divided 
into fix Leaves, having many fmall blew Threads 
Handing about the middle Head, which, as far as is 
yet dilcovered, never yet gave ripe Seed. 
VII. The Places. The firft has been formerly Na- 
med Eriophorus Peruanus, and Hyacinthus Stellatus 
Peruanus, The Starry Jacinth of Peru, and the three 
firft are generally known and received by the Name 
of Hyacinthus Peruanus , for which reafon we alfo 
have retained it; but all the firft three grow natu- 
rally in Spain, in the Meadows not far from the 
Sea, as alfo in the Ifland of Gades, commonly cal- 
led Gales, as likewife in other parts along the Sea 
fide going from thence to Port St. Maria, which 
when they are in Flower grow fo thick together, 
that they feem to cover the Ground, as Guil. BocI 
affirms, who fays that himfelf gathered thefe and 
many others in the places named with his own 
Hands, but faying withal that the White and Blufh 
Colored are far more rare than the Blew , or firft 
Kind; yet notwithftanding all that has been hither- 
to laid, it is very probable that they have been found 
growing alfo in Peru, otherwife they could never 
have fo generally obtained that Name' with us they 
are only nurfed up in Gardens; tire fourth has ma- 
ny times been fent out of larky into England, where 
in our Gardens it has ftourilhed for a long time, as 
well as feveral others ; 'tis poffible that that in The- 
ophrajhts Lib. 7. Cap. 13. is this very Plant, where 
he declares that Garments were made of the woolly 
fubllance of a bulbous Root taken from between the 
Core or Heart of the Root and the outermoft Coats 
or Peelings; but C/ufitis will have this Bttlbus Erio- 
phorus, 
