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Show $s Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Baia: i Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 121 naeaeee sae 2 Mufcari Clufij. t Afh-coloured Grape-floure, 1 Mufcaréflavum. Yellow musked Grape-floure: cy Cua. 82. Of Wooly Bulbs, o~, Bulbus Eriophorus. Woolly Iacinth, | The Defiriprion, Herehathfallen out to be here inferted bulbous plant confifting of many Bulbes,a whichhath paffed currant among ft all our late Writers. The which I amto fet forth to the view ofour Nation,as others haue done in fun- dry languages to theirs,asa kind of the Iacinths, which in roots and leaues it doth very wel refem- ble; called of the Grecians,teres: if Latine,Za- niferus, becaufe ofhis aboundance of Wool l-refemblingfubftance, wherewith the whol e Plant 1s in euerypart full fraught, as well roots , leaues, as ftalkes. The leaues are broad, thick e, fat full ofjuyce, and ofa {pidet-like web when they be broken. Amang thefe leauesrifeth vp a ftalke twocubits high, much like vnto the ftalke of Squilla or Sea-Onion; andfrom the midd le to the topitis befet round about with many {mall ftarre-like blew floures without fell, veryl ike to the floures ofA fphodill beginning to foure at the bottome, and fo vpward by degreeswhe re. by it is long before it hath done Hlouring : which floures tlie learned Phyfitian of Vienna, Lohannes AicholXius, defited long to fee;who brou ght it firft from Conftantinople, andplantedit in his Garden,where he nourifhed it tenne yeares with Great curiofitie : which time being expiredthin- Mufcari caulis filiquis onuftus. Theftalke ofMafcari hanged with the feed-veffels. gq The Place. Thefe Plants came ftom beyond the Thra cian Bofphorus, our of Afia, and from about Conftantinople, and by the meanes of Friends haue been broughtinto thefe parts of Europe; whereofour Londongardensare poffeffed. @ The Time, Theyflourein March and Aprilland fome- timesafter. G The Names. king ittobe a barren plant,he fentit to Carolys Clufins, with whominfomefewyeresit did beare fuch floures as before defcribed, but neuerfince to this day. This painefull Herbarift would gladly haue feene the feed that thould fucceed thefe floures ; butthey being ofa nature quickly fubieé& to perith, decay, and fade, began prefently to pine away, leaui onelya fewchaffie and idle feed-veffels without fruit. My felfe hath beene pofleffed with thisngplant at the leaf twelye yeares, whereof I haue yearely great encreafe ofnewroots , but I did neuerfee any token ofbuddingor flouringto this day : notwith ftanding I {hall be contentto fufferit in fome bafe placeor other ofmy garden,to ftand as the cipher oat the end ofthe figure toatt s, end his time and |Jejfure, as thofe men of famous memorie haue done. Of whofe tempe rature and vertues there hath notanything beenefaid, but kept in gardens tothe endaforefaid. Theyare called generally eMufcari : In the Turky Tongue, 1u{choromi, Mufcurimi,Tiptadl, and Dipcadi, of their pleafant fweet {mell: OF Matthiolus, Bulbus Vomitorins.Thele plants may be referred vnto the Iacinths, whereofvndoubtedly they be kindes. {| The Nature and rertues, There hath notas yet any thing beenetow ched concerning the nature or vertues of thefe Plants, onely they are kept and maintainedin ppitens for the pleafant fmell of their floures, ut notfor their beauty,for that many ftinking ficld floures do in beautie farre furpaffe then). But it fhould feem that Matthiolus called them Yomitorius,in that he fappofed they procurev miting ; which ofother Authors hath notbia remembred, Chap: Cuar.83, Of twofeiened Plants. | The Defzription. Haue thought it conuenient to concludethis hiftorieof the Hyacinths with thefe two bulbous Plants, receiued bytradition from others, though generally holdenfor feigned andadultcrine. Their pictures I could willingly haue omittedin this hiftorie, if the curious eye could elfewhere haue found them drawne and deferibedin our Englith Tongue: but becaufeI finde themin none, I will Jay them downe here, tothe end that it mayferue for excufe to others whofhall comeafter, which lift not to defcribe them,beingas I faid condemnedf orfeinedand adulterine, nakedly drawne onely. And the firft ofthemi s called esse: by others, Bulbus Bomb cinus Commentitinz, The defeription confifterh of thefe points,Bulbus viz. The floures (faith the Author) arenoleffe ftrange than wonderfull. The leaues and roots are like to thofe of Hy |