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Show 14.6 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. : S Names, i The aver Hecbarifteby i . a Lisa BO Dist HitguleantrbeiDahnstiang! Ge é e a"Pankith and:steange it Telipa; rhe led Tulipa,the forme whereof,the foure whenit isnamecall open feemethtoreprefent. a atia apical . it et + Theroots preferued Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 147 withfilgar, or otherwife dreffed, £ ae f may beeaten, and areno vapleafant A nor any wayoffenfiue meat, butrather goodand ndurifhing, + Itiscalledin Englifh after the Turkifl name Tulipa; or itmaybe cal led Dalmatian Cap; ot the Turkes Cap,’ What name the antient Writers: gaue it is:not certainly knowne. Aman might fufpect it to be wm, if irwere a Bulbe that might be eaten, and wereof force to make milke | Science : Vf cold for Theophraftus reckoneth it among thofe Bulbes that maybe eaten: andit is an herbe, C HAP. 88. O Bulbous Violets. as Hefychius faith,wherewith milkeis crudded. Conradus Gefnerus and diuers others hate taken Tulipa tobe that Satyrium which is fyrnamed Erythroninm, becaufe one kinde hath a red floute ; or altogetheracertaine kinde of Satyrivm: with whichitdothagree reafonable well, ifin Déofcorides | his defcription we mayin ftead Ofamexjum teade xumeoiyuy OF rneenvenqe 5 for fuch miftakes are frequent in antientand moderne Authors, both in writing and. printing.: In the Turky Tongue itiscalled Ff Café lalé,C andlelalé, and likewife Tarban and Turfan, ofthe Turks Cap fo. called, as beforefaid of @ The Kindes, Heophraftushath mentionedone kinde of bulbous Leucoion, which bias a flased log-alhe or the white Violet. Ofthis viola Theophrafti, or Theophraftus his Violet,we haue ob{erued three forts,whereof fome bring forth manyfloures and leaues,others fewer; fome foure very early,and others Jater,as thall be declared, Lobelius. 4 29 Tulipa Holias albafirys chpunctis fanguiness. $ 30 Tulipa mediafaturepurpurea fun 1 Leucoinmbulbofum pracox minus. Tunely flouring bulbousViolet, [ubceruleo, The white Holias with fanguine {pots andftreakes. f 2 Leucoium bulbofumpracox ByXantinum, The Byzantine early bulbous Violet, A middle Tulip of a deepe Purple colour witha blewifh bottome, a The Defiription. £ He firft of thefe bulbous Violets rifeth out ofthe ground, with two fimall Ieaues flat andcrefted, ofan ouerworne greene colour, betweene the whichrifeth vpa fimall and Idoverily thinke that thefe are the ke'm##4, the Lillies ofthe field mentioned by our Sa: _ tender ftalke oftwo hands high; at therop whereofcommethforth of a skinny hood afmall whitefloure of the bigneffe ofa Violet, compact of fix leaues, three bigger,andthree leffer, tippedat the points witha light greene: the fmallerare fathioned into the vulgar forme of a uiour, Mat.6.28,29. for he faith, That Solomonin allhis royaltiewas not arayedlike one of thee. The reafons that induce meto thinke thus are thefe: Firft, their fhape-.; for their floures refemble Lillies, and in thefe places whereas our Sauiourwas.conuerfant they growwildein the fields. Se condly, the infinite varietieofcolour, which is to be found morein this than any other fort 0 floure : and thirdly,the wondrous beautie and mixtures ofthefe floures. This is my opinion, am! thefe myreafons, which any mayeither approueof or gainfay as he fhall thinke q The Temperature and Vertues. good. + he Na£ There hath not beeneany thing fet downe of the antient or later Writers as touching t t ture or Vertues ofthe Tulipa’s, but they are eftcemed efpeci ally for the beauty oftheir Oethe enelated or ar peeatits rae one longer,and tharpe pointed, ee ha “-i read, by reafon of the weake foot ftalke whereon it groweth, rhe im L +2 There aretwo varieties ofthis kind whichdifferlittle in fhape, but the firtt hath a floure 4S bigge againeas the ordinarie one, and Clufiws calls it Leucoinmb ulbolum pracox Byzautinum. 2 grea = early Con +ahha itan b is ane — The other js wehb e ee anil "ted Onelyin colour of floares ; wherefore he calls it Lewcoium triphyllur mflore caruleo, The blew floured bulbousViolet, 3 The 7 |
