There is no difference in this from the former, but in the flower, which is of a whitish colour in the three falling leaues, hauing a circle of ash-colour about the yellow spot, the three rigged leaues being likewise whitish, but ridged and edged with that ash-colour, and the three vpright leaues of a pale blewish white colour, with some veines therein of a blewish purple.
Varietas.
There hath beene brought vnto vs diuers rootes of these kindes, with the dryed flowers remaining on them, wherein there hath beene seene more varieties, then I can well remember to expresse, which variety it is very probable, hath risen by the sowing of the seeds, as is truely obserued in the narrower leafed kinde of Flowerdeluce, in the Tulipa, and in some other plants.
Flore luteo.
Wee haue heard of one of this kinde of broad leafed Flowerdeluces, that should beare a yellow flower, in the like manner as is to be seene in the narrow leafed ones: but I haue not seene any such, and therefore I dare report no further of it, vntill time hath discouered the truth or falshood of the report.
| 1 | Iris bulbosa latifolia prima Clusii. Clusius his first great bulbous Flowerdeluce. |
| 2 | Iris bulbosa maior cærulea siue Anglica. The great blew of English bulbous Flowerdeluce. |
| 3 | Iris bulbosa maior purpurea variegata. The great purple stript bulbous Flowerdeluce. |
| 4 | Iris bulbosa angustifolia maior alba. The greater white narrow leafed bulbous Flowerdeluce. |
| 5 | Iris bulbosa angustifolia versicolor. The party coloured narrow leafed bulbous Flowerdeluce. |
| 6 | Iris bulbosa angustifolia Africana. The purple African bulbous narrow leafed Flowerdeluce. |
The Place.
Lobelius is the first reporter, that the blew Flowerdeluce or first kinde of these broad leafed Flowerdeluces, groweth naturally in the West parts of England; but I am in some doubt of the truth of that report: for I rather thinke, that some in their trauels through Spaine, or other parts where it groweth, being delighted with the beauty of the flower, did gather the rootes, and bring them ouer with them, and dwelling in some of the West parts of England, planted them, and there encreasing so plentifully as they doe, they were imparted to many, thereby in time growing common in all Countrey folkes Gardens thereabouts. They grow also, and all the other, and many more varieties, about Tholouse, from whence Plantinianus Gassanus both sent and brought vs them, with many other bulbous rootes, and rare plants gathered thereabouts.