'IB. I. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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mon Flourede-Iuce : the which being part, there come in the place thereof lone thicke cods or 
feed-veffels, wherein is contained yellowiih feed of the bigneffe of a tare or fitch The root is 
round Iikean Onion, couered oner with certaine browne skinnes or filmes. Of this kind there are 
fome flue or fix varieties, caufed by the various colours of the Floures. 
5 Iris Btdbofa Flore luteo cum jlore & J'eminc. 
1 Yellow bulbed Floure de-luce in floure and feed. 
V abIe r FI e U r de ' lu “ bath leau «, (hikes, and Roots like the former, but leffer. The 
hlZl i J, lke T^ th \ formC ° f t lC Fl0Urc dc - lucc ’ ri:at ,s confifteth of fixe greater 
riahf n hr r thc r greater leaues fo!d backward and han g downward, die leffer ftand vp- 
f “ the middle of the leaues tbere r j ‘eth vp a yellow weir, white about the brimmes,and 
thrvTft 3 OU i Cr W “ h ? of thmne blew tendin S t0 a Watchet colour. Toward the ftalke 
thar ftan i nppC u °, Ue u W ! th a hghf purple -colour, and likevvife amongft the hollow places ofthofe 
r wu, P lV ght(lVh,Ch ? nnot b< ; ex P re{red in thc fignrej there is the fame faire purple colour - 
tneimell and fauour very fweet and pieafant. The root is Onion fafhion, or bulbous like the 
lour nfrl7m re * l [° anotber variegated Floure de-luce, much like this laft deferibed, in the co- 
Bu/drlTJ, ) b / l ’ C eaC ’ P lant produceth more branches and Floures, whence iris termed Iris 
B bofaver/icolorpolycloMs, Many-branched changeable Floure de-luce, $ 
u l cs r Zl ‘I dl , de or f ° rt there , is anotber in my Garden, which I receiued from my Brother 
Head ofrlfohi l x)t K ' can< -’i fn more beautiful! than the laft deferibed ; the which is dafhtouer,in 
fw’pr v 1 n T ° ) r 'w^cchtrt colour, with amoft pieafant gold yellow colour , of fmell exceeding 
lweet, with bulbed roots like thofe of the other fort. S 
of this th , e f e -“f thc garden of the Prince Eleftpr the Lantgraue of Heffen,one 
otthis forto' kmde, with white Floures, the which as yet I haue not feene. 
rip i.Jvfch ■ e c ‘ 0It ^ mentioned by our Author, there are ofthe narrow leaned bulbous Floure 
verv , irrJ 5 omc t ' v ™ c >' , ure or more varieties, which in (Rape of roots, leaues, and Floures differ 
red wf’ or r m ? a notbin ? at a*! ; f° tbar he which knows one of theie may prefently know the 
vnf ’ r uJ CK -f , auP ? “ ! s a tbin g n P more pertinent to a general! hiftorie of Plants , to infift 
co'onre ,,j C ^^ enta 11 'cities, than for him that writes a hiftorie of Beafts to deferibe all the 
* urs, and their m ixtures, in Horfes, Dogs, and the like ; I refer fitch as arc defirous to infbrmc 
I them- 
