We haue anothor of this sort that is lesser, and the flowers rounder pointed.
13. Moly Dioscorideum Hispanicum. The Spanish Moly of Dioscorides.
This Moly came vnto me among other Molyes from Spaine, and is in all things like vnto the last described, but fairer, larger, and of much more beauty, as hauing his white flowers twice as great as the former; but (as it seemeth) very impatient of our Winters, which it could not at any hand endure, but quickly perished, as some others that came with it also.
14. Moly Moschatinum vel Zibettinum Monspeliense. The sweete smelling Moly of Mompelier.
This sweete Moly, which I haue kept for the last, to close vp your senses, is the smallest, and the finest of all the rest, hauing foure or fiue small greene leaues, almost as fine as haires, or like the leaues of the Feather-grasse: the stalke is about a foote high, bearing fiue or six or more small white flowers, laid open like Starres, made of six leaues a peece, of an excellent sweete sent, resembling Muske or Ciuet; for diuers haue diuersly censured of it. It flowreth late in the yeare, so that if the precedent Summer bee either ouer moist, or the Autumne ouer early cold, this will not haue that sweete sent, that it will haue in a hot drie time, and besides must be carefully respected: for it will hardly abide the extremity of our sharpe Winters.
The Place.
The places of these Molyes, are for the most part expressed in their titles, or in their descriptions.
The Time.
The time is set downe, for the most part to bee in Iune and Iuly, the rest later.