The Time.
The three former kindes doe flower in Aprill, the two last in May.
The Names.
The first and second haue no other names then are expressed in their titles. The third is called of some onely Hyacinthus maior and of others Hyacinthus comosus maior: We call it in English, The purple faire haired Iacinth, because of his tuft of purple threeds, like haires at the toppe, and (as I said) of diuers Gentlewomen, purple tassels. The fourth is called by some as it is in the title, Hyacinthus Comosus ramosus, and of others Hyacinthus Calamistratus. And the last or fifth is diuersly called by diuers, Fabius Columna in his Phytobasanos the second part, calleth it Hyacinthus Sannesius, because hee first saw it in that Cardinals Garden at Rome. Robin of Paris sent to vs the former of the two last, by the name of Hyacinthus Pennatus, and Hyacinthus Calamistratus, when as others sent the last by the name Pennatus, and the other by the name of Calamistratus; but I thinke the name Cincinnatus is more fit and proper for it, in that the curled threeds which seeme like haires, are better expressed by the word Cincinnus, then Calamistrum, this signifying but the bodkin or instrument wherewith they vse to frisle or curle the haire, and that the bush of haire it selfe being curled. Some also haue giuen to both these last the names of Hyacinthus Comosus Parnassi, the one fairer then the other. Of all these names you may vse which you please; but for the last kinde, the name Cincinnatus, as I said, is the more proper, but Pennatus is the more common, and Calamistratus for the former of the two last.
| 1 | Hyacinthus Comosus albus. The white haired Iacinth. |
| 2 | Hyacinthus Comosus Byzantinus. The Turkie faire haired Iacinth. |
| 3 | Hyacinthus Comosus maior purpureus. The purple faire haired Iacinth, or Purse tassels. |
| 4 | Hyacinthus Comosus ramosus, siue Calamistratus. The faire haired branched Iacinth. |
| 5 | Hyacinthus Pennatus, siue Comosus elegantior. The faire curld haire Iacinth. |
{Orientall Iacinth}
1. Hyacinthus Orientalis Brumalis, siue præcox flore albo. The white Winter Orientall Iacinth.
This early Iacinth riseth vp with his greene leaues (which are in all respects like to the ordinary Orientall Iacinths, but somewhat narrower) before Winter, and sometimes it is in flower also before Winter, and is in forme and colour a plaine white Orientall Iacinth, but somewhat lesser, differing onely in no other thing, then the time of his flowring, which is alwayes certaine to be long before the other sorts.