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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
vnto our common yellow Daffodil . The feed is inclofed in thicke knobby huskes,blacke, flat, and 
thicke, very foft,in fhape like vnto the feeds of Ariftolochia longa, or long Birth-wort. The root is 
great, white, long, and bulbous. 
4 Red floured Sea Daffodill, or fea Onion, hath a great bulbe or root like to the precedent • 
the leaues long, fat, and fharpe pointed, the ftalkebareandnaked,bearingatthe topfundry faire 
red floures in fhape like to the laft defcribed. 
z Pancratium Cluftj. 
Great Squill, or Sea Onion. 
5 The yellow floured fea Daffodill, or fea Onion, hath many thicke fat leaues like vnto the 
common Squill or fea Onion, among which rifeth vp a tender ftraight ftalke full of iuyee, bearing 
at the top many floures like the common yellow Daffodill. The ieed and root is like the prece- 
dent. 
t < To thefe may fitly be added that elegant plant which is knowne by the name of T^ar- 
cijfua tertiui of Matthiolus,a.fi& may be called White Sea Daffodill. This plant hath large roots, as 
bigge fometimes as the ordinarie Squill; the leaues are like thofeof other Daffodils, but broa- 
der, rounder pointed, and not verylong. The ftalke is pretty thicke, being fometimes round, 
othervvhiles cornered, at the top whereof grow many large white floures : each floure is thus com- 
pofed; it hath fix long white leaues, in the midft growes forth awhitepointall which isincom- 
paffed by a welt or cap diuided into fix parts, which fix are againe by threes diuided into eighteen 
iaggesordiuifions,awhitethredtiptwithgreene,ofan inch long, comming forth of the middle 
oreach dilution. This flourethin the end of May. It isfaidtogrow naturally about the fea 
coaft of Illyria. £ 
The Place. 
The firft is found in Spaineand Italy, not far from the fea fide. 
The fecond alfo neere vnto the fea, in Italy, Spaine, and Valentia. I haue had plants of them 
brought me from fundry parts ofthe Mediterranean fea fide,as alfo from Conftantinople, where 
it is numbred among the kindes of Narciftiis. 
The third grovveth in thefandsof the fea, inmoft places of the coaft of Narbone,and about 
Montpellier. 
T he fourth groweth plentifully about thecoafts of Tripolis and Aleppo, neere to the fea, and 
alfo in the frit marfhes that are fandie and 1 ie open to the aire. 
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