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Show 144 i, Of the Hiftorie of Plants. List, $2 5 1ulipaflore coloris fulphurei The fulphur-coloured Tulip, $ 24 Tulipa lutco & rubroftriatus. The redand yellow Fooles coat, lsat) eee Of the! Hiftorie of Plants. oii niente ~ 145 ——— a threds orchiues in the middle, ofthe colourofSaffron- The colour of the floure is fometimes yellow, fometimes white, now.and then asit were ofa light purple, and Mahy times red; and in this there is no {mall varieties ofcolours, for the edges ofthe leaiigs,an d oftentimes the nailes or lower part of the leaues are now & then othetwife coloured than the leaues themfelu gs, andiman times there doth runne all along thefe ftreakes fome other colours, They haue no fmell at all that can be perceiued. The toots of thefe arelikewife bulbed 5 or Onton fathion ;euery of the whichto fet forth feucrally woulditrouble the writer,and wearie the Reader, fo rhat,what hath bin faid fhall fuffice touchingthe defcription of Tulipa’s.'+ Truc it is that our Author here affirmes, The varieties ofthefe floures ate fo infinite;thatit would both tyre the Writer and Reader torecount them. Yet for that fome are more in loue with floures thanwith Plantsin generall,I hate thought good to dire& them where they mayfinde: fomewhat moreatlarge of this Plant : Let fuchtherefore asdefire further {atisfagion herein haue recuurfe to the Flotilegies of De Bry, Swerts, Robin, or to M. Parkinfow,who hath not onely largely treated ofthe floutesin particular, butalfo of the orderingofthem. + 4 27 Tulipaluteaferotina. The late flouring yellow Tulip. $ 28 Tulipa(erorina luteacutis faneguiners finds nigrO, Thelate Yellow with fanguine {pots and a blacke bottome, ¥ 26 Tuliparubraoris pallidis, The red Tulip withpale edges; 12 Theteis another alfo in our Londongat dens, ofa fhew white colour; the edges {lightly wafht ouerwitha little ofthat we call bluth colour. 13 Wehaueanother like the former, fauing thathis floureis of a ftraw colour. 14. Thereis another to be feenewitha flour mixed with ftreaks ofred andyellow,refembling a flameoffire, wherupon we haue calledit Flan bant. There be likewife fo many more differing {0 notably in colour of their floures , although in Ieaucs, ftalke, and roots for the moft part onelike another,that (as I faid before) topeake ofthem feuerally would require a peculiar volume, ¢ Thereforenot totrouble you any further, Thaue giuen you onely the figures and names of thenotableft differences which are in fhape ;4 the dwarfe Tulipa’s, and the branched ones,toge- ther with thecolour of their floures, contaitigg theirtitles, that you need notfar to in feekeit. £. Therebea fort greater than the reft,which ia formeare like ; the léaues whereof are thick long,broad,now and then fomewhatfoldedinthe edges ; inthe middeft whereof dothrife vpa ftalk a foot high,or fomthing higher, vpon which ftatdeth onely one floure bolt vpright, confifting o fix leaues,after a fort like toa deepe wigé,cup ° this forme, viz.the bottome turned vPa area | The Place. Tulipa groweth wilde in Thracia, Cappadocia, and Italy ; in Bizantia about Conftantinople, at Tripolis and Alepo in Syria. They are now commoniftall the gardens offuehas affect floures, allouer England, é The Time, Theyfloure from the end ofFebrnarie vnto the beginning of May,jand fomewhatafter; although Augerins Busbequius in his journey to Conftantinople,{aw between Hadrianople and Con- ftantinople, great aboundanceof thein floure euery where,euenin the middeft of Winter,in the moncth of lanuarie, which that warmeand temperate climate mayfeemeto petforme. a te |
