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The Defcription. . 
4 The Orientalllacinth hath great leaues, thicke, fat, and full of juyce, deepely hollowed in 
the middle like a trough : from the middle of thofe leaues rifeth vp a ftalke two hands high, bare 
without leaues, very fmooth, foft, and full of juice, loden toward the top with many faire blew 
Floures, hollow like a bell, greater than the Englifh Iacinth,but otherwife like them. 1 he root is 
great, bulbous, or Onion fafhion , couered with many fcaly reddilh filmes or pillmgs , Inch as 
s' The Iacinth with many Floures (for fo doth the word Polymthos import) hath very many 
large and broad leaues, (hort and very thicke, fat, or full of flimy juyce : from the middle whereof 
rife vp ft rone thicke groffe ftalkes,bare and naked, fet from the middle to the top with many blew 
or skie coloured F loures growing for the moft part vpon one fide of the ftalke. The root is great, 
thicke,and full of flimy juyce. 
4 to Hyacinthus Orientate caulefoliof) 
Orientall Iacinth with leaues on the ftalke. 
t it Hyacinthus Orient dis flare fleno. 
The double floured Oriental Iacinth. 
4: 6 There is another like the former in each refpedt, failing that the floures are wholly 
white on the infide, and white alfo on theoutfide,but three of the out-leaues are of a palewhitifh 
yellow. Thefe floures fmellfweet as the former, and the heads wherein the feeds are contained 
are of a lighter greene colour, t 
7 There is comevnto vs from beyond the feas diners other forts, whole figures are not extant 
with vs ■, of which there is one like vnto the firft of thefe Oriental Iacinths, failing that the floures 
thereof are purple coloured ; whence it is termed Hiacinthuspitrpuro ntbetts . 
8 Likewife there is another called orientdlit tilbus, differing alio from the others in colour of 
the floures, for that thefe are very white, and the others blew. 
9 There is another called Hyacinthus Brumali/sjor winter Iacinth : it is like the others in fhape, 
but differed! in the time of flouring. 
4 io There is another Hyacinth belonging rather to this place than any other, for that in 
root, leaues, floures, and feeds it refembles the firft deferibed Oriental Iacinth ;but in one refpeft 
it differs not onely from them, but alfo from all other Iacinths : which is, it hath a leauie ftalke, 
hailing fometimes one, and othervvhiles two narrow long leaues comming forth at the bottome of 
