Chap, 7 1 ^ 
Herbs 
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the middle of the ¥ lower, grows ( after the blower 
is fallen ) to be long , round and edged , as it were 
with three Angles or Sides , the edges meeting at 
the top where it is fmallefl , and making as it were 
a Crown , ( which is not feen in the Head of any 
Lilly ; ) which when it is ripe , divides its Jelf on 
the injide , into fix rows of flat , thin, brownifh , 
griflly Seed , very like unto the Seed of Lillys, but 
brighter , fliffer and more tranfparent. Something 
more is to be faid of the Tulip, which take in the 
following Obf ervat ions. 
IV. ObJ. i. All forts of Tulips ufually bear but 
one Stalk, and that without any Branches ; but 
fometimes Nature is fo free in producing, that it 
has two or three Stalks, and fometimes two or 
more Branches out of one Stalk, each Stalk or 
Branch bearing one f lower at the top, but this is 
very rarely feen ; and when it does happen once, 
it is* hardly ever feen again from the fame Root; 
but is a great Sign, that fuch a Root being now 
old, will in the lame Year divide itlelf into feve- 
ral Roots, each of which, being of a reafonable 
greatnefs, will bear both its Stalk and Flower the 
next Year, agreeing with the Mother-Plant in co- 
lor, as all the Oft lets of Tulips do for the molt 
part : For altho’ the young Olf-fets of fome do 
vary from the main Root, even whilft it grows 
with them, yet being feparated, it will be of the 
fame color with the Mother-Plant. 
V. Obfl 2. There grows oftentimes in the 
Mediae, and fometimes alfo in the Pracoces, tho’ 
but feldom, a lmall Bulb or Root, hard above 
Ground, at the bottom of the Stalk, and between 
it and the lower Leal, which when the Stalk is 
dry, and is ripe, being put into the Ground, will 
bring forth in time, a flower like unto the Mother- 
Plant, of which it came. 
VI. ObJ. 3. The flowers alfo of Tulips con- 
lift commonly of fix Leaves ; but fometimes they 
are feen to have 8 or io, or more Leaves ; but 
ufually thofe Roots bear but their ordinary num- 
ber of fix Leaves the next Year. The Head tor 
Seed, is then for the moft part four fquare or cor-i 
nered, which at all other times is but three corner- 
ed ; or when the flower wants a Leaf or two, as 
fometimes alfo it does, it is then fiat, having but 
two corners or edges. 
VII. ObJ. 4. The form of the Flower is alfo 
very variable, for the Leaves of fome Tulips are 
all fharp pointed, or all blunt and round pointed ; 
and fome, the three outermoft, fharp pointed, and 
the three inner round pointed, and fome contrari- 
wife. Again, fome have all the Leaves of the 
Flowers, long and narrow ; and fome again have 
them broader and fhorter. Some Pracoces have 
their Flowers very large and great, equal to thofe 
of the Medice or Serotince , which molt commonly 
are the largett ; and others have them as lmall as 
the Bolonia Tulip. 
VIII. Obf. 5;. The bottoms of the Leaves of 
the Flowers are alfo variably diverfified, and lb 
are both the Chives and Pendents which hang loofe 
on their tops within : And by the difference of the 
bottoms or Chives, many Flowers are diftinguifh- 
ed, which otherwife are very like in color, and 
alike alfo marked. 
IX. Obf. 6 . In the Smell alfo there is fome 
diverfity ; for that the Flowers of fome have no 
Smell at all, fome a fmall Scent, not offenfive ; 
fome a little fweetifh, and fome very fweet : And 
fome again have a ftrong ill Smell ; which are not 
to be diftinguifhed by Writing, but by ones own 
fmelling to them. The Seeds of fweet fuelling 
Plants, many times do not follow their Mother- 
Plants, no mote in their fmell, than they do in 
their color. 
X. Obf 7. When the Flower has been for fe- 
veral Years of one intire color, yet afterwards it has 
altered very much, as if it had not been the fame 
riant , as from a Purple or Stamel , it has been 
variably either parted or mixed, or ftriped with 
white, either in part, or thro’ the whole Flower * 
and fo in a red or yellow, that it has had either 
red or yellow edges, or red or yellow Spots of 
bereaks, Veins, Lines or Flames, running thro’ the 
red or yellow color; fometimes three Leaves have 
been equally parted in the middle with red and 
yellow, the other three remaining of one color : 
In fome the red has fome vellow in it ; and the 
yellow fome red Spots in it alfo. Thefe Varieties 
proceeding from fuch Roots as had been for feve- 
ral Years of one conftant color, fhew the weak- 
nefs and decay of thofe Roots; and that this ex- 
traordinary Beauty of the Flower, is but as the 
Blaze of a Light, or Candle juft upon its going 
out ; and by this means declares to them, that it 
is upon taking its tore toe//, and can do no more 
fervice. 
XL Obf. 8. That the chief differences (fetting 
afrde the Seafons of Flowering) confilt in the Form 
and Magnitude of the Leaves, as fome great and 
large, fome fmaller-, fome long and pointed, 
others broad and blunt. 2. In the colors, with 
their feveral mixtures, marks, and variablenefs of 
changing, as has been before declared. This large 
. Defcription , with the Obfervations appendent to 
it, may well ferve for all the Seafons of Tulips, 
whether Prucoccs , Mediae or Serotinu, concerning 
their fpringing up, form and bearing; there being 
no other great Varieties belides worth the noting. 
XII. Mr. Rea deferibes the Tulip after this man- 
ner, in his i/ora, pag. 47. The Roots are fome 
rounder and bigger than others , t thofe bottoms are 
large, round, with a woolly eminence on one fide , 
whence the Fibres come forth-, and on the other fide 
of fuch as have born Flowers, there is a hollow 
Channel where the Stalk grew, which Tearly fhifts 
from fide to fide, arifwg every Hear a new from 
■ ‘he aforefaid eminence, which is in the bottom of 
every Root, but more in fome than in others. Thefe 
Roots are fharp at their upper end, and if they will 
bear Flowers the next Fear are forked, and fhew 
forth two Points to put forth two Leaves ; but if 
they will not bear Flowers, then they appear but 
with one Point : Thefe Roots are aljo compojed of 
feveral thick Skins, folded one upon another , and 
at lafl are covet ed with a brown Coat, which is eve- 
ry Fear renewed, the old being caft rff. Thefe, whe- 
ther they be the Przcoces, Mediz or Serotinz, 
fpnng out of the Ground with Leaves folded one 
within another , and opening by degrees become 
broad, thick , long and hollow, turning up their 
edges, and holding Water falling thereon ; com- 
monly three in number, but fomet imes in old Rooted 
Plants four or five, of a whitifh green color, with 
whiter edges, chiefly in the Przcoces, by which they 
are known from the Mediz or Serotinz , whofe 
Leave Hare of a frejher green. The Stalk with the 
Flower, comes up in the middle of the Leaves, which 
rife up with it, and encompafis it at unequal dt dan- 
ces, many of the Przcoces beading to the Ground, 
but before they Flower, are drawn upright by the 
Sun, as all the reft are. They all bear ( ufually ) 
but one Flower on a Stalk, which Stalk in the Prz- 
coces is not above a Foot high, and many of them 
lower, but in the Mediz and Serotinz much higher, 
ftands upright , and at its top heu a Flower compo- 
fed of fix Leaves, green at fir ft andclofed, which 
by the influence of the Sun Beams opens, changes 
into divers Glorious colors varioufly mixed, edged , 
ftriped, feathered, guarded , agoltei, marbled, fla- 
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