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Show 28 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lip. $+ recedent, but the floures are compofed offix large white out-leaues ; but the middle is filled with manyfaire yellowlittle leaues muchlike to the double yellow wall-floure. They {mel fiveet i like as the la{t mentioned. 13 This differs from the laft mentioned onely in thatit is leffe, and thatthe middle of the floute within the yellow cup isfilled with longifh narrow little leaues, as it were croffing each List Of the Hiftory of Plants, ng | + 17 Thereisalfoanother Ruth Daffodil or Jumquilia,with floures not tharpe pointed,but round witha little cup in the middle : the colouris yellow or elfe white. This is Lobels Narciffus , joncifoliusflore rotunda circinitatis rofeo. 18 There is alfoanother Iwnquilia whofe leaties and ftalkes ate like thofe of the firtt deferibed Ruthy Daffodil, but the cupin the middeft of the floure is muchlarger.) The caloutofthe floute other. Their colouris white, but mixed with fomegreene on the outfide, and yellow ontheins fide. iscommonly white. Clufivs calls this Narciffus 1 luncifolius amplo calice. 19 There are threeor foure reflex Junquilia’s, whofe cups hang downe,andthefixe incompatfing leaues turne vp or backe, whence they take their names. The floures of the firft are yellowthofe ofthe fecond all white, the cup ofthe thirdis yellow,and the reflex leaues white.The fourth other colourin the floure but white, whereas all the others are mixed with one colour or other. hath awhite cup, and yellow reflex leaues. ‘This feemes to be Lobels Narci{fus montanus minimus coronatus. 20 This is like tothe ordinatieleffer unquilia, but that the floures are very double,confitting ofmanylongandlarge Ieaues mixed together ; the fhorter leaues are obtufe,as if they wereclipt off, They are wholly yellow. + 14 an milke white Daffodilldiffereth not from the common white Daffodill, or Primrofe peereleffe,in Jeaues,ftalkes, roots, or floures,fauing that the floures of this plant hath not any £ 17 Narci[fusjuncifolins Rofeolutews, Rofe or round floured Iwmquilia. i £ 18 Narciffus juncifolius amplocalice, White Zeaquilia with the large cup, $ 19 Narciffus Iuncifolins reflexus minor. The lefler reflex Innquilias $ 20 Narciffusjuncifolins multiplex. The double Zunquilia, 3 19 Narciffusjuncifolius reflexusflore alboe Thewhite reflex Ianquilia, 4 1s The Ruth Daffodil! hath long , narrow, and thickeleaues, very {mooth and flexible, almoft roun like Ruthes,whereofit tooke his fyrname Iuncifolins ot Ruthie. It {pringeth vp in the beginning of Ianuatie, at which time alfo the floures doe fhoor forth theif buds atthe top of{mall ruthy ftalkes, fometimes tw and often more vpon one ftalke, made offix {mall yel- lowleaues, The cup or crowne in the middle is likewife yellow, in fhaperefembling the other Daffodills, but {maller,and of a ftrong {weet fmell. The root is bulbed, whitewithia, and couered with a blacke skia orfilme. _ 16 This Ruth Daffodil is like vnto the precedent ineach refpe&, fauingthat iris altogetherleffer, amd longer before it cometo flouring There is alfo a white flouredoneofthis kinde, ery 7 There 21 The PerfianDaffodill hath no ftalke at all, but onely a {mall andtender foot ftalke ofan inch high, fuch as the Saffronfloure hath : ypon whichfhort and tenderftalk dothftandayellowith floure confifting of fix {mall leaues ; ofwhich the three innermoft are narrower than thofé on theout fide. Inthe middle ofthe floure doth growforth a longftile or pointall, fer about with many final! chiues or threds. The whole floureis of an vnpleafant {mel, muchlike to Poppy. The leaues rife vp alittle before the floure, long, fmooth, and fhining. The root is bulbed,thicke,and groffe, blackifh on the out fide, and pale within, wich fome threds hanging at the lower part. 22 The Autumne Daffodil bringethforth long fmooth,glittering leaues, ofadeepe greene colour : among whichrifeth vp fhortftalke, bearing at the top one floure and no more, refemling the floure of Mead Saffron or common Saffton, confifting of fix leaues of a bright fhining yellowcolour; in the middle whereofftand fix threds orchiues,and alfoa peftell or clapper yellowlikewife. The root is thickeand groffe like vntothe precedent. # 23 : Tothis laftmaybeadioyned another which in’ shape fomewhat refembles - ibe a ecaues 3 |