Lib. i. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
threds orchtucs in the middle, of the colour of Saffron. The colour of the floure is fometime 
yellow, l’oraetiines white, now and then as it were of a light purple, and many times red and in 
this there is no final [ varieties of colours, for the edges of the leaues, and oftentimes the mile- or 
lower part of the leaues are now & then otherwife coloured than the leaues themfelu-s andm n 
times there doth runne all along thefe ftreakes fome other colours. They haue iwfmell at afl 
that can beperceiued. The roots of thefe are likevvife bulbed, or Onion fafhion • euery of the 
which to fet forth feuerally would trouble the writer, and vvearie the Reader. Co that what hath bin 
fard {hall fiiffice touching the deferiptron of Tulipa’s. * True it ts that our Author here affirmes 
The varieties of thefe flouresare fo infinite, that it would both tyre the Writer and Reader to re- 
count them. Yet for that fome are more in loue with floures thamvith Plants in generall I haue 
thought good to dired them where they may finde fomewhat more at large of this Plant Let 
fuch therefore as defire further fatisfaiiion herein haue recourfe to the Florile°-ies o C Do Bn 
Swcrts Robin,or to M. Parkinfbn, who hath not onely largely treated of the floures in particular' 
butalfo of the ordering of them. | * 5 
icy floure from the end of Februarie vnto the beginning of May, and fomewhat after- al- 
tough Augenus Bttsbcquius in his journey to Conftantinople,faw between Hadrianople and Con- 
antmople, great aboundance of them in floure euery where, euen in the middeft of Winter, in the 
moneth ol Iaouarie, which that war me and temperate climate may feeme to performc, 
If The 
