Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lib. i. 
leaues are fmooth,greene, growing ftraight vp,and almoft a fingers breadth ; among vvhicn rifeth 
vp a ftalke a little more than halfe a foot in height, at the'top of which grovvcth forth a yellow 
flonre not much vnlike that of the laft defcribed Autumne Narcifle: : it confilteth o f f ixe leaues 
fome inch and halfe in length, and forne halfe inch broad, iharpe pointed, the three inner leaues 
being fomewhat longer than the outer. There grow forth out of themiddeftofthe floure three 
whitilh chiueSjtipt with yellow, and a peftell inthemidft of them longer than any of them. The 
root confifts of many coats, with fibres comming forth of the bottome thereof like others of this 
kinde. It floures in Februarie. + 
2 1 Narcijfus Per ficus. 
ThePerfian Daffodil!. 
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22 Narcijpis Autumnalis major . 
The great Winter Daffodill, 
24 Small Winter Daffodill hath a bulbous root, much like vnto the root of Rufh Daffodil, 
but lelfer: from the which rifeth vp a naked ftalke without leaues, on the top whereof groweth a 
fmall white floure with a yellow circle in the middle, fvveet in fmell, fomething fluffing the head 
as do the other Daffodils. 
The Pluce. 
The Daffodils with purple coronets do grow wxlde in fundry places of France,chiefly in Bour- 
gondie,and in Suitzerland in medowes. , 
TheRufh Daffodill groweth wildein fundry places of S paine, among graffe and other herbes, 
Diofcorides faith, That they be efpecially found vpon mountaines. Theocritus affirmeth the Daffo- 
dils to grow in medowes, in his nineteenth Eidjl. or twentieth, according to fome editions : where 
hewriteth. That thefaire ’LadicSurop/i entring with her Nymphs into the medowes, did gather 
the fwect fmelling Daffodils ; in thefe Verfes : 
A «f', (WH OUM, &C. 
Which we may Englifh thus : 
Sut when the dries were come into 
T he medowes flouring all in fight, 
T hut Wench with thefe, this Wench with t hofe 
Trim floures , them] clues did all delight : 
She with the Narcifle troodin fcnt. 
And jhc with Hyacinths content. 
