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Show The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 9 The Garden ofpleasant Flawers. ——— 2 ea Onion roote hauing many long aac eto rre Suit ched , and {pread wider vp. iytae focuet , and as bigge SEeeerl | thicke, andwhite ie hd ad others that grow downward, and perifh not cuery perpart ofthe cae tL croton other Daffodils doe ; and therefore this plane ya Beacate flowers, ifitbe often tranfplanted, but rather defiretoa. not to be ouerfhadowed, or co a = se a echt remouing; as I {aid, and that will flourifh , and beareabidein mer Tey yee ae 2 erbes ftanding too neareit, which then ered with manyblackith coates,arifethfix iscou is roote s Fomth pec faeBoasmore , twicewhich leauies fo broad almoft, as any of the Sarena — ag npal os = he ae not folong by halfe as many of them, being but fhort, incol : fe oo ie ides which ae of e middl the from ; colour greene e awhit of and s, roundifh an thic e, and fomefometimes, fpringeth yp one or two, or more {talke bearing at the toppe, timesa little fat and cornered, a foote high or fomewhat more, s, confifting of fix large flower out of askinnie huske, eight, ten, twelue, or more very s in the white leauesa peece, {pread or laid open, with a white thort cuppe or een 5a middle, lying flat vpon the leaues, cut or diuidedinto fix corners ve not a the cuppe or crowaeof any otherfingle Daffodil) from euery of which edges, ot ed tut corners ofthis clip or crowne,ftandeth one white long thread, a little crook or with s ning vp atthe end, tiptwith a yellow pendent, andfome other white thread tipt yellowpendents,ftanding alfo in the middle: after the flowerispaft, there come vp greatthree fquare heads, wherein the feedeis contained, which is great,blacke, and round, like vnto the feede of other Daffodils, but greater :the lower hath a reafons ble good fent, but not very ftrong. The Place. It was firft found by the Sea fide,in the Ifle of Sardinia, and on the high Mountaines'alfo of the fame Ifle, where it hath borne by report, thirtyfue flowers vponaftalke : it groweth likewife about Ilyricum , and in diues : other places. The Time. It {pringeth later out of the ground then any other Daffodill, rhatist? fay, not vntill the later end ofMarch,or beginningofAprill, and flowre! in the end of May,or the beginning of Iune: the {eedeis ripe in the end luly, or beginning of Auguit. { YYFPL i,£3 Mh: \ The Names. / AS Thefirft that hath made mention ofthis Daffodill, was Matthiolus, wi! VWF placed it inthe third placeamonghis Daffodils,and is moft vfually now* dayescalled, Nereiffus tertins Matthieli, Matthiolus his third Daffodil, V4 Wes SS. | eff GO WEF VF i the rather, becaufe Clufius vpon a more mature deliberation , firft refer itthereunto, but called it atthe firlt, Liliomarci(fies Hemerocallidis facie, ant as hee faith, Iacobus Plateau(who firft fenthim the figure hereof, withtlt defcription) called it Liltomarci(fies Orientalis , but Clufius Vpon certaineil! formation, thatit grew in the places aforefaid, mifliked the nameofOrit” talis,and added Hemerocalls., whichyetis not fit, for that his ezemerst® Valentina , ds a plaine Pancration or Seabaftard Daffodill > whofe mide cup islonger then the cup ofany true Daffodill , which (as I {aid in the ginning ofthis Chapter) is the chiefeft note ofdifference, berweene at and a baftard Daffodill. Ireceiued the feede of this Daffodil! among mat! otherfeedes ofrare plants, from the liberality of Mt. Dogtor Flud, ont? the Phyfitians of the Colledge in London, who gathered them inthe V# uetfity Garden at Pifain'Tealy, and brought them with him,returning ho™ fromhistrauailes into thofe parts , by the name of Martagon rari[si™ 3 (and hauing fowhe them, expected fourteene yeares, before I faw thet AutumneDaffodill. 3 Narcilfus warings Africanné.The Sea Daffodil ot Africa. 4 Narcifns marinus «x0- beare a dower, which the firft yearg sharit did flower, bore foure ftalkes ° wee, : flowel Narciffns tertins Matthioli. The great whiteSea Daffodill,, 4. Narciffas Indicus Astumnalis, The Indian ticwe. The ftrange Sea Daffodilt, ‘ |