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Salmon s Herbal. Lib. 1. 
CHAP. CCCCII. 
Of JACINTH Starry Autumn. 
i.’-jf HE Karnes. It is called in Greek 'rdy.tri& 
JL eir&its 07rtk>£iv°fi in Kit me 'Hyacinthus St e list us 
Autumnal is ^ and in Englifh The Autumn Starry Ja- 
cinth. . 
II. The Kinds. There are three Species of this 
Plant, viz. I. Hyacinth its St e llat us Autumnalis ma- 
jor , The Greater Autumn Starry Jacinth. 2. Hya- 
cinth us Stella! us Autumnalis minor , The Leffer Au- 
tumn Starry Jacinth. 5. Hyacinthus St e llat us Au- 
tumnalis Wore albo minor , The Leffer Autumn Star- 
ry Jacinth with white Flowers. 
III. An Obfervation. Dalechampius with many 
Words would have us to believe that thefe Plants, 
can be no Jacinths , becaufe their Flowers appear 
belore their Leaves in Autumn , contrary to the true 
Jacinth , as he fays, and therefore will have it to be 
the Bulbus of Tbeophrajhts Lib. 1. Cap. 12. which he 
calls his Ttphyum (there mentioned) as alfo hulbus 
JEftivus Dalccbampij h this miy carry fome probabi- 
lity with it, yet the likenefs of both Roots, Leaves, 
and Flowers, have perfwaded very Learned Botanifts 
to believe them to be true Jacinths , and fo we take 
them in this place. 
Head in the middle, which in time growing ripe 
contain therein fmall, black, and roundifh Seed. 
V. The fecond , or Leffer Autumn Starry Jacinth. 
This Leffer Jacinth has a bulbous Root like others , 
which fends forth Rich like long and fmall Leaves 
as the former, but narrower, the Stalk is not full 
out fo high, but bears as many Flowers on it as the 
other, which are of a pale or bleak purple color, 
very like to it alfo, as is the Seed too, but that it 
is fmaller •, both thefe for the molt part bear their 
Flowers and Seed before the green Leaves rife up 
much above the Ground. . 
VI. The third , or Leffer Autumn Starry Jacinth 
with white Flowers. This in its Root , Stalky Flow- 
ers , and Seed , as alfo in its manner of growing , dif- 
fers nothing from the former Leffer Purple Kind loft 
defcribed , excepting in the color of the Flowers , which 
in this Plant are always white. 
VII. The Places. The native places of the firft 
and third are as yet unknown to us, where poffibly 
they may grow wild, here they are only nurfed up 
in Gardens •, the fecond grows wild in many places 
of England , as on the foot of a high Bank by the 
Thames fide at the hither end of Chelfea , before you 
come at the Barge-Houfe , and other places, from 
whence Plants have been taken for Gardens. 
VIII. The Times. The firft or greateft Flowers 
in the end of July^ and in Augufi , the other two In 
Auguft and September j you fhall rarely fee any of 
thefe Plants with Flowers and green Leaves together 
at one time. 
IV. The Defcriptions. Tim firft , or Greater Au- 
tumn Starry Jacinth. It has a Root which is great , 
bulbous , and white on the out fide ^ from this Root 
fpring up five or fix or more very long and narrow 
green Leaves, lying upon the Ground ^ the Stalks 
are furnifhed at top w ith many Star like Flowers, 
of a pale blewifh. purple color, with fome pale co- 
lored Threads tipt with blew Handing about the 
CHAP. CCCCIIL 
Of ) A C 1 N T H Starry Lilly 
Leaved. 
I.'T 'HE Karnes. It is called in Greek 'T 
1 drym tetetc$vKmv 6 s, in Latinc Hyacinthus Stel- 
Iatus Lilifolius , and in Englift) Lilly Leaved Starry 
Jacinth. 
If. The Kinds. There are three feveral Species 
of this Plant, viz. 1. Hyacinthus Stellat us Lilifolius 
Flore Cxruleo , Hyacinthus Stellat us C&ruleus Lilifo- 
lio Ef Radice , The Blew Flow ; ered Lilly Leaved and 
Lilly Rooted Starry Jacinth, (its Root being as like 
to a Lilly Root as its Leaves to Lilly Leaves.) 2. 
Hyacinthus Stellat us Lilifolius a lb us , vel Lilifolius 
Flore albo , The White Flowered Lilly Leaved Starry 
Jacinth. 3. Hyacinthus Stellat us Lilifolius Flore 
Carneo , The Blufh Colored Lilly Leaved Starry Ja- 
cinth. Now becaufe the Roots of thefe Plants as 
well as the Leaves are fo very like to a Lilly , they 
have been called Hyacinthus Stellat us Lilt folio & 
Radice , but for brevity fake Hyacinthus St ell at us Li- 
lifolius , The Lilly Leaved Starry Jacinth. Clufius 
fays that the People who Dwell near its native place 
of growth call it Sarahug. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Blew Flow- 
ered Lilly Leaved Starry Jacinth. It has a Root 
which is bulbous , longifh , big below and fmall above , 
like unto the fmall Root of a Lilly, and compofed of 
yellow Scales , as a Lilly, but the Scales are greater 
and fewer in number •, from thH Root rife up fix or 
feven broad green Leaves, fomewhat like unto Lilly 
Leaves, (from whence it took part of its Name, as 
well as from the Root) fpread upon the Ground, 
