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Show 122 Of the Hitftorie of Plants. L vei, Of the Hiftorie of Plants. cinths, which hath caufedit to occupie this place. Thefloures refemble the Daffodils or Nar. ciffus. The whole plant confifteth ofa woolly or flockie matter: which defcription with the Pj. Gure wasfent ynto Dodonens by Iohannes AicholXius. It may be that AicholXius receiued inftrugi. onsfrom the Indies, ofa plant called in Greeke edwin, which growethin India, whereofTheophra. Cuar. 84, ftus and Athenens do write in this manner, faying, Thefloureis like the Narciffus, confifting ofa flockie or woolly fubftance, which by himfeemethto be the defcription ofour bombaft Iacinth, 1 Bulbus Bombicinus Commentitins. Falfe bumbafte Iacinth. Of Daffodils, @| The Kindes. 2 Tigridisflos. The floure of Tygris. Affodill, or Narcif[iz,according to Dioftorides, is oftwo forts : the floures ofboth are white, the one hayingin the middle purplecircle or coronet ; the other with ayellow cupcircle orcoronet, Since whofe time there hath been fundry others de{cribed.as thall be fer forth jn their ptoperplaces. 1 Narci(fus medio purpurens, Purple circled Daffodil. + 4. Narciffus medio crocens ferotinus Polyapt hos. The late many floured Daffodill with the Saf fron-coloured middle, y 2 _Thefecond feignedpiGurehath beene taken of the Difconerer and othets oflater time,to beakinde of Dragons not feene of any that have written thereof. w hich hath moued thinke it a feigned picture likewife, notwithfta themto nding youfhall receiue the defcriptiom rhereofas i blacke ; from the which fpring vp long Onion fafhion, outwardly s, fharpe pointed, narrow, and ofa freth Jour : in the middeft of which leanes-rifleaue coe vp nakedor bare ftalkes, at th € top whereofgreene pleafant yello eroweth a ithath come to myhands. Ther w floure, {tained with many{mall red fpots here arid there confufedly andin the middeft ofthe floure thruf caft abroad: teth fortha long red tongueorftile which ¢ eee sweth tobe the cod or feed-veffell,crooked orwreathed, wherein is the feed. The Whics ante era ture are nottobe fpoken of, confi derin g that we affuredly perfuade our felues hae there a no fuch plants, but meere’f Gion s and deuices, as we terme them: to giue his Brad: ¢ Thoughthefe two haue been dgeor e thought commentitious oO fen ned, yet Bun bi a : is to vindicate the latter, and Zohn Theodore de Bry inhis Florilecium hath fet it forth Heat Ss Fi gures thereof, this which we here giue you being the one; butthe other is fete a eed refembles a natural] plant. The e o * leaue s (as Banhine faith) are like the fword-flag the root Aries Pigure) por fometimes two or three ofa ftalke: tw 0 leaues, anda long Prdaiaeeyane (actording to De ftile or peftill: each of thefe leaues is dinided into the tongueor ftile that comes forth and large, and the innermoft much Narrower and fharper: ofthe midft ofthe floure is long. and eee ead diuid d se three crookedforked points. Allthat pe Bry faith thereofis this Flos Tievidis rubet en a medium tamen pallet, albufaie oft orca & maculatus 3 6x Mexico a Capar o Riabine. That is: F,hitTeri wond rousTi milion red,a vetsfists yer-i s impa da is irpale leaand Cap pas whit > Sc if}sh about the midd tin i three parts, the vttermoft being broad le, > and alfo ( {pot {pot ed ted ;- itj came: fromab about Chap. q The Defcription. He firft of the Daffodils is that withthe purple crowneorcircle , hauing {mall narrowleaues , thicke,far, andfull of flimie juyce ; among the which rifeth vp a naked ftalke,fmooth and hollow, ofafoot high,bearing at the topa faire milk-white floure growing forth ofa hood or thinefilme, fuchas the floures ofonions atewrappe din ; in the middeft ofwhichfloureis a roundcircle or {mall coronet ofa yellowifh colour , purfled or bordered about the edgeof thefaid ring or circle witha pleafant purple colour; which beeingpaft, there followeth a thicke knob or button,whereinis contained blacke roundfeed. The rootis white,bulbous or Onionfafhion. 2 Thefecond kinde of Daffodill agreethwiththe precedent in euety refpe,fauing that this Daffodill floureth inthe beginning ofFebruari, and the other notvntill April, and is fomewhat leffer. It is called Narciffus medio purpurcus precox ; Thatis, Timely purple ringed Daffodill. The Next may haue the addition precocior, More timely : andthe lat in place, but firft in time,precoci /- fimus, Mok timely, or very early flouring Daffodil]. es 3 +n The |