4. Narcissus medio purpureus stellaris. The starry purple ringed Daffodill.
This Daffodill hath his leaues a little narrower and greener then the former sorts, the flower also of this hath his sixe white leaues not so broad, but narrower, and seeming longer then they, not closing together, but standing apart one from another, making it seem like a white starre: it hath also a yellow coronet in the middle, circled about with purple, like the former. This doth smell nothing so sweete as the first but yet hath a good sent.
The Place.
The first, third, and fourth of these Daffodils, haue always beene sent vs from Constantinople among other bulbous rootes, so that wee know no further of their naturall places.
The second groweth in many places of Europe, both in Germany, France, and Italy, as Clusius hath noted.
The Time.
The first flowreth very early in March, euen with the first Daffodils. The second, third, and fourth, about a moneth after.
The Names.
The early and starre Daffodils, haue been sent vs by the Turkish name of Deuebohini, and Serincade. But their names, they haue receiued since, to bee endenizond with vs, are set downe in their seuerall titles.