FOOTNOTES

[1] The name, indeed, of one of our colours is taken from its blossoms.

This Quotation from Gerard referring to its Smell belongs to the Philadelphus coronarius or Mock-orange which both by him and Parkinson is called Syringa, & which led to the Mistake.

[2]

Florida sed postquam venêre in prata puellæ,
His illa, hæc aliis se floribus oblectabant;
Narcisso illa quidem bene olente, atq; illa Hyacintho.

[3]

Pro molli Viola, pro purpureo Narcisso,
Carduus et spinis surgit Paliurus acutis.

[4]

Nusquam corpus erat, croceum pro corpore florem
Inveniunt, foliis medium cingentibus albis.

[5] In saxosis udis alpium. Jacq.