_Hyacinthus Hispanicus obsoletus._ The Spanish dunne coloured Iacinth. This Spanish Iacinth springeth very late out of the ground, bearing foure or fiue short, hollow, and soft whitish greene leaues, with a white line in the middle of euery one of them, among which rise vp one or more stalkes, bearing diuers flowers at the toppes of them, all looking one way, or standing on the one side, hanging downe their heads, consisting of six leaues, three whereof being the outermost, lay open their leaues, and turne back the ends a little again: the other three which are innermost, do as it were close together in the middle of the flower, without laying themselues open at all, being a little whitish at the edges: the whole flower is of a purplish yellow colour, with some white and green as it were mixed among it, of no sent at all: it beareth blacke and flat seede in three square, great, and bunched out heads: the roote is reasonable great, and white on the outside, with many strong white fibres at it, which perish not yearely, as the fibres of many other Iacinths doe, and as it springeth late, so it holdeth his greene leaues almost vntill Winter. [Sidenote: _Mauritanicus._] There hath been another hereof brought from about Fez and Marocco in Barbary, which in all respects was greater, but else differed little. [Sidenote: _Maximus Æthiopicus._] There was another also brought from the Cape of good Hope, whose leaues were stronger and greener then the former, the stalke also thicker, bearing diuers flowers, confusedly standing vpon longer foote-stalkes, yet made after the same fashion, but that the three inner leaues were whitish, and dented about the edges, otherwise the flowers were yellow and greenish on the inside. The Place. These plants grow in Spaine, Barbary, and Ethiopia, according as their names and descriptions doe declare. The Time. The first flowreth not vntill Iune; for, as I said, it is very late before it springeth vp out of the ground, and holdeth his leaues as is said, vntill September, in the meane time the seede thereof ripeneth. The Names. They haue their names according to the place of their growing; for one is called _Hyacinthus Hispanicus obsoletioris coloris_. The other is called also _Hyacinthus Mauritanicus_. And the last, _Hyacinthus Æthiopicus obsoletus_. In English, The Spanish, Barbary, or Ethiopian Iacinth, of a dunne or duskie colour. _Hyacinthus Anglicus Belgicus, vel Hispanicus._ English Hares-bels, or Spanish Iacinth.