Lib. i. Of the Hiftory of Plants. ny 
bringeth forth many floures vpon one ilalk,and the other fewer, and not of fo perfeft a fweet fmel 
but more otfen fine and huffing the head. It hath this addition, Poliant/yos, that is ofmanv floures* 
whereinefpeciallyconfifteth the difference. ' ' 5 
9 The Italian Daffodil! is very like the former, the which to diftinguifh in words, that they 
may be Icnowne one from another, is impoffible. Theirfloures, leaues, and roots are like, fauin^ 
that the floures of this are fweeter and more in number. ‘ & 
I 5 Narciffm luncifolius prscox. 
Rufh Daffodill, or lunauilia. „ 
1 6 Narciffus Iuncifolius [erotinm. 
Late flouring Rufh Daffodill. 
i° The double white Daffodill of Conftancinople was fenr into England vnto therfoht ho- 
nourable the Lord Treafurer, among other bulbed floures : whofe roots when they were planted in 
our London gardens, did bring forth beautifull floures, very white and double, with fpme yellow - 
nelle mixed in the middle leaues, pleafant and fweet in fmell , but iinee that time we netier could 
Dyany induftrieormanuringbringthem vnto flouring againe. Sothat it fhould appeare when 
they were difeharged of that birth or burthen which they had begotten in their owne country, and 
not hnding that matter, foile, or clymate to beget more floures, ‘they remaine euer fince barren 
and truitleffe. Befides, we found by experience, that thofe plants which in Autumne did fhooc 
forth leaues, did bring forth no floures at all ; and the others that appeared not vntill the Spring, 
T-f™ 1111 bearc their floures. The ftalks, leaues, and roots are like vnto the other kindes of 
i ft i" “ * S called ofthe Turks, GmlCatnmer l«le- s Thatis,Mim/^withdoublefloures.Not- 
withltandingwe hauereceiued from beyond the Leas, as well from the Low Countries, as alfo 
irom 1- ranee, another fort of greater beautie, which fromyeare to yeare doth yeeld forth moil: 
plealant double floures, and great encreafe of roots, very like as well in ftalkes as other parts of 
to plant, vnto the other forts of Daffodils. It diftererh onely in the floures, which are very dou- 
Dle and thicke rhruft together, as are the floures of our double Primrofe, hauing in the middle of 
afo f c ^' ues or welts ofa bright purple co!our,and the other mixed with yellow as 
, ^ 11 This alfowith double white floures, which Clufias lets forth in the fixth place, is of 
t c fame kinde with the laft deferibed ■ but it beares but one or two floures vpon a ftalke, whereas 
tne other hath many. 
ia This which is Clufimhh Ntrnffus florefltno i. is in roots,leaues, and ftalkes very like the 
h a precedent- 
