Being brought without names, wee haue giuen them their names according to their face and fashion, as they are set downe in their titles.
Narcissus Autumnalis minor albus. The little white Autumne Daffodill.
This little Autumne Daffodill riseth with his flowers first out of the ground, without any leaues at all. It springeth vp with one or two stalkes about a finger long, euery one bearing out of a small huske one small white flower, laid open abroad like vnto the Starre white Daffodill, before spoken of: in the middle of the flower is a small yellow cup of a meane size, and after the flower is past, there commeth in the same place a small head, containing small, round, blacke seede, like vnto the Autumne Hyacinth: the leaues come vp after the seede is ripe and gone, being small and narrow, not much bigger then the Autumne Hyacinth: the roote is small and blackish on the outside.
The Place.
This Daffodill groweth in Spaine, where Clusius saw it, and brought it into these parts.
The Time.
It flowreth in the beginning of Autumne, and his seede is ripe in the end of October in those hot Countries, but in ours it will scarce abide to shew a flower.
The Names.
The Spaniards, as Clusius reporteth, call it Tonada, and he vpon the sight thereof, Narcissus Autumnalis minor albus, and wee in English thereafter, The little white Autumne Daffodill.
