Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp / a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

by John Parkinson

Aurea siue lutea Hispanica.
The Spanish yellow.

We haue another kinde that is called the Spanish yellow, which riseth not vp so high, as ordinarily most of the rest doe, and is wholly of a gold yellow colour.

Pallide lutea.
Straw colour.

There is another, that vsually riseth higher then the former yellow, and is wholly of a pale yellow, but deeper at the spot.

Albida lutea.
Pale Straw colour.

There is also another like vnto the pale yellow, but that the falling leaues are whiter then all the rest of the flower.

Mauritanica flaua serotina minor.
The small Barbary yellow.

There is a smaller or dwarfe kinde, brought from the backe parts of Barbary, neare the Sea, like vnto the yellow, but smaller and lower, and in stead of vpright leaues, hath small short leaues like haires: it flowreth very late, after all others haue almost giuen their seede.

Versicolor Hispanica cærulea labris albis.
The party coloured Spanish.

We haue another sort is called the party coloured Spanish bulbous Flowerdeluce, whose falling leaues are white, the arched leaues of a whitish siluer colour, and the vpright leaues of a fine blewish purple.