The Place.
The first groweth in many places of Spaine and Portugall, from whence I and others haue often had it for our Gardens, but by reason of the tendernesse thereof, it doth hardly endure the sharpnesse of our cold Winters, vnlesse it be carefully preserued.
The other is said to come from Persia, and therefore it is so entituled, and is as tender to be kept as the other.
The Time.
The first flowreth most vsually not vntill May with vs, yet many times sooner: but in Ianuary and February, as Clusius saith, in the naturall places thereof.
The other is as early oftentimes when it doth flower with vs.
The Names.
Because Clusius by good iudgement referreth the first to the greater kindes of Flowerdeluces, and placeth it in the fore ranke, calling it Iris bulbosa latifolia prima, that is, The first broad leafed Flowerdeluce, and all others doe the like, I haue (as you see) in the like manner put it before all the other, and keepe the same name. The Spaniards, as he saith, called it Lirio espadanal, and they of Corduba, Lirios azules.
The other hath no other name then as it is in the title.