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B. I. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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The floures grow at the top, thruft or packt together like a buhchof Grapes, of a pfeafint bright 
sky colour, euery little bottle-like floure fet about the hollow entrance with fmall white f D o-s not 
eafietobeperceiued. The roots are like the former. 1 
8 Hyacinthus Botryoides carultus major. 
Great Grape-floure. 
9 The white Grape-floure differeth not 
from the sky-coloured Iacinth,but in colour of 
the floureifor this Iacinth is ofa pleafaut white 
colour tending to yellovvnes, ripped about the 
hollow part with White, whiter than White it 
felfe, otherwife there is no difference. 
The Place. 
Thefe plants are kept in gardens for the 
beautie of their floures, wherewith our London 
gardens do abound. 
The Time. 
They floure from Februarie to the end of 
May. 
5f The Names. 
The Grape-floure is called Hyacinthus Botry- 
o'tdes , and Hyacinthus Neon corum Dodonai : of 
lome, But us Eficulentus, Hyacinthus fyluefiris cor . 
di, Hyacinthus exiguus T rags. Some ludge them 
to be Bulbs ix, of Pliny. 
t The fair chaired Iacinth deferibedin the firfi place 
is the Hyacinthus of Diofcorides andthe Antients .■£ 
% The Nature and Venues, 
f Tie vertices fet downe in the precedent Chap, 
ter properly belong to that kinds of Hyacinth which si 
defer ibed in the fir ft place in this Chapter. 
Chap. 8i. Oj <if7vl'ujcdri ) or Adusljcd (jrci pf'jloui'C . 
«y The Deficription. 
1 V E 1J ° W Mufcarie hatl1 fil,c or fi x lon g kaues fpread vpon the ground, thicke , fat and 
X full oflhmie juyee, turning and winding themfelues crookedly this way St that way 
. r n , h ° I,owed alongft the middle like a trough, as are thofc of fairc haired IacintLwhich 
at tne hrlt budding or fpringmg vp are ofa purplifh colour, bur being growne to perfection be- 
come ora/darke greene colour ; amongft the which leaues rife vp naked, thicke, and fit ftalkes in 
ftrme and weake in refpeft of the thicknefTe and greatneiTe thereof, lying alfo vpon the around as 
do the leaues ■ fet from the middle to the top on euery fide with many yellow floures, euerie one 
made like a lunall pitcher or little box, with a narrow mouth, exceeding fvvect of flneli like the fa- 
iiorofmuske, whereof it tooke the name iJMufcari. The feed is inclofed in puffed or blownevp 
cods,confu(edly madewithout order, ofa fit and fpongeous fubfhnce, wherein is contained roilnd 
olacke feed. 1 he root is bulbous or onion fifliion, vv hereunto are annexed certaine fat and thicke 
firings like thofeofDogs grade. ' 
i Afh-co'oured tMuftari or grape-floure,hath large and fat leaues like the precedent not dif- 
ermg in any point, fuhng that thefe leaues at their firffi fpringingvp are ofa pale dusky colour 
Iikealhes. The floures are likewife fweet,but ofa pale bleake colour, wherein confiftetli the dif- 
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