Our English Iacinth or Hares-bels is so common euery where, that it scarce needeth any description. It beareth diuers long and narrow greene leaues, not standing vpright, nor yet fully lying vpon the ground, among which springeth vp the stalke, bearing at the toppe many long and hollow flowers, hanging downe their heads all forwards for the most part, parted at the brimmes into six parts, turning vp their points a little againe, of a sweetish, but heady sent, somewhat like vnto the Grape-flower: the heads for seede are long and square, wherein is much blacke seede; the colour of the flowers are in some of a deeper blew, tending to a purple; in others of a paler blew, or of a bleake blew, tending to an ash colour: Some are pure white, and some are party coloured, blew and white; and some are of a fine delayed purplish red or blush colour, which some call a peach colour. The rootes of all sorts agree, and are alike, being white and very slimie; some whereof will be great and round, others long and slender, and those that lye neare the toppe of the earth bare, will be greene. _Hyacinthus Hispanicus maior flore campanulæ instar._ The greater Spanish bell-flowred Iacinth. This Spanish bell-flowred Iacinth, is very like the former English or Spanish Iacinth, but greater in all parts, as well of leaues as flowers, many growing together at the toppe of the stalke, with many short greene leaues among them, hanging downe their heads, with larger, greater, and wider open mouths, like vnto bels, of a darke blew colour, and no good sent. The Place. The first groweth in many places of England, the Lowe-Countries, as we call them, and Spaine, but the last chiefly in Spaine. The Time. They flower in Aprill for the most part, and sometimes in May. The Names. Because the first is more frequent in England, then in Spaine or the Lowe-Countries, it is called with vs _Hyacinthus Anglicus_, The English Iacinth; but it is also called as well _Belgicus_, as _Hispanicus_: yet Dodonæus calleth it _Hyacinthus non scriptus_, because it was not written of by any Authour before himselfe. It is generally knowne in England by the name of Hare-bels. The other Spanish Iacinth beareth his name in his title. _Hyacinthus Eriophorus._ The Woolly Iacinth.