The Time.
It flowreth sometimes in December, if the former part of the Winter haue been milde; but most vsually about the end of Ianuary, or else in Februarie the beginning or the end.
The Names.
Wee doe vsually call it from the Turkish name, Narcissus Trapezunticus, and some also call it Narcissus vernus præcox, as Clusius doth, in English, The early Daffodill of Trebizond.
| 1 | Narcissus Nonpareille. The incomparable Daffodill. |
| 2 | Narcissus Mattenesse. The lesser yellow Nompareille Daffodill. |
| 3 | Narcissus Iacobæus flore rubro. The red Indian Daffodill. |
| 4 | Narcissus Trapezunticus. The early Daffodill of Trabesond. |
| 5 | Narcissus Montanus albus apophysibus præditus. The white winged Daffodill. |
| 6 | Narcissus Montanus, siue Nompareille totus albus. The white Nompareille, or Peerlesse Daffodill. |
| 7 | Narcissus albus oblongo calice. The white Daffodill with a long cup. |
{Mountain Daffodils}
Narcissus Montanus albus apophysibus præditus. The white Mountaine Daffodill with eares, or The white winged Daffodill.
This Mountaine Daffodill riseth vp with three or four broad leaues, somewhat long, of a whitish greene colour, among which riseth vp a stalke a foote and a halfe high, whereon standeth one large flower, and sometimes two, consisting of sixe white leaues a peece, not very broad, and without any shew of yellownesse in them, three whereof haue vsually each of them on the back part, at the bottome vpon the one side of them, and not on both, a little small white peece of a leafe like an eare, the other three hauing none at all: the cup is almost as large, or not much lesse then the small Nompareille, small at the bottome, and very large, open at the brimme, of a faire yellow colour, and sometimes the edges or brimmes of the cup will haue a deeper yellow colour about it, like as if it were discoloured with Saffron: the flower is verie sweete, the roote is great and white, couered with a pale coate or skinne, not verie blacke, and is not very apt to encrease, seldome giuing of-sets; neither haue I euer gathered seede thereof, because it passeth away without bearing any with me.