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Of the H lit one of Plants. 
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1 B. I. 
or bare ftalkesloden with many hollow blew Floures,of aftrongfiveet fmcll, fomewhat fluffing 
the head rafter which come the coddes or round knobs, containing a great quantitie of flnafl 
blacke fhining feed. The root is bulbous, full of a (limy glewifh juyee, which wil feme to fet fea- 
thers vponarrowes in fteadof glevv, or to pafte bookes with : whereof is made the beft ftarch next 
vnto that of Wake-robin roots. 
4 Hyacinthits Oriefltalis c&ruleus. 5 Hyacinthus Orientals Poly, tntbos. 
The blew Orientall Iacinth. Many flouted Orientall Iacinth. 
2 The white Englilli Iacinth is altogether like vnto the precedent , failing that the leaues 
hereof are fomewhat broader, the Floures more open, and very white of colour. 
3 There is found wilde inmany places of England, another fort, which hath Floures of a faire 
carnation colour, which maketh a difference from the other. 
There arc alfo fundry other varieties of this fort, but I thinke it vnneceflarie to infift vpon 
them, their difference is fo little,con(ifting not in their fhape,butin the colour of their Floures. t 
The blew Hare-bels grow wilde in woods, copfes, and in the borders of fields euery where tho- 
row England. 
The other two are not fo common, yet do they grow in thewoods by Colchefter in E flex, in 
the fields and woods by South-fleet, neere vnto Graues-end in Kent, as alfo in a piece of ground by 
Canturbury called the Clapper, in the fields by Bathe, about the woods by Warrington in Lan- 
cafhite, andother places. 
time . 
They floure from the beginning of May vnto the end of Iune. 
The names. 
1 The firftofourEnglifh Hyacinths is called H-jac'mthas ^Anglicus, for that it is thought to 
grow more plentifully in England than elfewhere •, of Dgdonxut, Hyacinthas nonfirij/tus, or the re- 
written Iacinth. . 
a The fecond, Hyacinthus Bdgicus Candidas , or the Low-Countrey Hyacinth with white 
Floures. . . 
3 This third iscalled tlyacinthus Anglian } ant Belgicus Floreincarnato , Carnation Hare- 
bels. 
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