1182 Salmon’/ Herbal. Lib. I. 
that thefe two Plants, or Plant going by two Names, 
viz. Satyrion and Tulipa, are ablolurely one and 
the fame. VI. Laftly , if this Our Tulip, be not 
the true Satyrion of Dio/corides , we know nothing 
this Day in the World that can anfwer to it, which 
has but one fingle Bulb as this has * the Tefticuli 
being in truth, nothing of kin to ic. There are, 
(as Authors will have it) three remarkable Kinds 
of the Tulip, (which yet have only refpeft to the 
time of their Flowering ^ ) viz. i. The Pracox , or 
Pracoces, which the Turks call Caff a Pale. 2. The 
Media, or Media, the middle Flowering Tulips. 
3. The Serotina, or Serotina, the late Flowering 
Tulips, which the Turks call Cava Pale. All 
thefe Dalechampius calls by the name of Oulada, 
and we only Tulips . Of thefe three Seafons of 
Tulips, rhere are many Varieties , of all which, 
one General Defcription will be enough to give you 
the full ol all thole various Flowers-, after which, 
we will give you the Principal of all thofe Varie- 
ties. 1 . As they were more Antiently taken notice 
of, and the Names they were then known by, 
from Mr. Parkinfon. 2. As they are now fpeci- 
fred, and the modern Names they are called by, 
from Mr. Rea. Thefe Varieties chiefly arife from 
their diverfities of Colours, produced by their often 
Sowing of their Seed, Planting and Re-planting 
them, which various Colourings feem to be admi- 
rable in them, beyond what can be found in any 
other Flower in the World belides ^ every Year 
y ielding a new mixture and variety, which polTibly 
was never feen or obferved before. The Mediae, 
which Flower between the early and late Flower- 
ing, fome will not have to be a Species by it felf, 
becaufe they nearer partake with the Serotina thau 
with the Pracoces , as well in the color of its Leaf, 
being of the fame Greennefs, as in the bignefs and 
height of its Stalk and Flower, being as high and 
large as the Serotina -, as alfo becaufe the Seed of 
a Media Tulip, never brings forth a Pracox , but 
many times a Serotina -, as again, a Serotina Seed 
many times brings forth a Media Tulip, never a 
Pracox . But becaufe the Media Tulip is taken as 
a Species by molt Authors, we (hall not here break 
the Order, but treat of them as they are generally 
received. 
The General Defcriptions. 
111 . Its Root being well grown is round, and fome- 
icbat great , fmall and pointed at the top, and broad- 
er, yet rounder at tbe bottom -, with a certain emi- 
nence, or bunching out on one fide, as the Root of the 
Colchium has , but not fo long or great -, it has alfo 
an hollownefs on the fide, ( if it has born a plower ) 
where the Stalk grew : F or tho 5 in the time of its 
firft Springing up, until it f hews its Buds for Flow- 
ers, the Stalk which with the Leaves thereon, rife 
up out of the middle of the Root yet when the Stalk 
is rifen up, and fhews the Bud for Flowers, it 
preffes to one fide, making an impreffion therein. 
This Root is covered over with a brownifh thin 
Coat or Skin like an Onion, having a little woolli- 
nefs at the bottom, but white and firm within -, yet 
compofcd of many Coats, one clofing in, or enfold- 
ing within another , like as the Root of a Daffodil, 
or Narciffus, of a reafonable good Tafie, not very 
fweet, but not m the leaf unp/eafant. From this 
Root comes a little Sprout out of the Ground, with 
its Pcaves folded one within another. The firft, or 
lowcfi Peaf r if, es up firft, fharp pointed, and folded 
up round together , until it be an Inch or two above 
the Ground, which then opens it felf, fhewing ano- 
ther Leaf folded alfo in the Bojom or Belly of the 
firft, which in lime l ike wife opening it felf, thru ft s 
forth a third, and fometimes a fourth and fifth 
The lower Peaves are larger than the upper, are 
fair, thick, broad, long, and hollow like a Gutter, 
and fometimes crumpled on the edges, which will 
hold Water falling thereon a long time-, they are of 
a Willow , or pale whitifh green color, ( but the 
Media: and Serotina:, more green ) covered over as 
it were with a Mealinefs, orhoarinefs, with an Eye 
or fhew of rednefs towards the bottom of the Pcaves, 
and the edges being more notably white, ( which are 
two principal Notes in a Precox, and diftinguifh it 
from a Media or Serotina.) The Stalk with the Flow- 
er, rifes up in the middle, as it were thro* thefe 
Pcaves, which in time ft and one above another, en 
compajjing it at certain unequal diftances, which is 
often obferved to bend it felf crookedly, fo as to look 
towards the Ground, as if it would thruft its Head 
thereinto , but turning up its Head again, wf§kh 
then comes to be the Flower, J lands afterwards up- 
right : This Stalk is in the Precox fometimes but 
3 or 4 Inches high, fometimes half a Foot, and fome- 
times a Foot high -, but in the Media: and Serotina:, 
much higher, carrying for the moft part , but one 
Flower on the top thereof, not much unlike a Lilly, 
confifting of fix Peaves, green at the firft , and af- 
terwards changing into divers and f undry colors, 
making manifold Varieties. The bottoms of the 
Leaves of the Pracox, fometimes , but moft efpeci - 
ally of the Media:, being as variable as the Flower, 
The T U L I P. 
which are in fome yellow or green , or black -, in 
others white , blew, purple, or tawney -, and fome- 
times one color circling another. Some of thefe 
Flowers have little or no Smell at all, fome fmell 
better than others , and fome fmell Sweet. After 
it has been blown three or four Days or more, it will 
in the heat of the Sun fpread it felf open, and lay it 
Jeff, dlmoft flat to the Stalk. In the midft of the 
Flower grows a lone, green Head or Point le, ( which 
will be the Seed Veffel,) compaffed about with fix 
Chives , which%ary very much, in being fometimes 
of one color, and fometimes of another, tipt with 
Pendents diver fly varied likewife. This Head in 
the 
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