All these Iacinths haue beene found in the Woods and Mountaines of Germany, Bohemia, and Austria, as Fuchsius and Gesner doe report, and in Naples, as Imperatus and others doe testifie. Wee cherish them all with great care in our Gardens, but especially the white and the blush of both kindes, for that they are more tender, and often perish for want of due regard. The Time. The common kindes, which are first expressed, flower about the middle of February, if the weather bee milde, and the other kindes sometimes a fortnight after, that is, in March, but ordinarily much about the same time with the former. The Names. The first is called in Latine _Hyacinthus Stellatus vulgaris_, and _Hyacinthus Stellatus bifolius_, and _Hyacinthus Stellaris Fuchsij_ and of some _Hyacinthus Stellatus Germanicus_; wee might very well call the other kinde, _Hyacinthus Stellatus vulgaris alter_, but diuers call it _Præcox_, and some _Martius_, as it is in the title. In English they may bee seuerally called: the first, The common; and the other, The early Starry Iacinth (notwithstanding the first flowreth before the other) for distinction sake. The _Hyacinthus_, seemeth to be called _Vacinium_ of Virgil in his Eclogues; for hee alwayes reckoneth it among the flowers that were vsed to decke Garlands, and neuer among fruits, as some would haue it. But in that hee calleth it _Vacinium nigrum_, in seuerall places, that doth very fitly answer the common receiued custome of those times, that called all deepe blew colours, such as are purples, and the like, blacke; for the Violet it selfe is likewise called blacke in the same place, where he calleth the _Vacinium_ blacke; so that it seemeth thereby, that he reckoned them to be both of one colour, and we know the colour of the Violet is not blacke, as we doe distinguish of blacke in these dayes. But the colour of this Starry Iacinth, being both of so deepe a purple sometimes, so neare vnto a Violet colour, and also more frequent, then any other Iacinth with them, in those places where Virgil liued, perswadeth me to thinke, that Virgil vnderstood this Starry Iacinth by _Vacinium_: Let others iudge otherwise, if they can shew greater probabilitie. 1. _Hyacinthus Stellatus Byzantinus nigra radice._ The Starry Iacinth of Turkie with the blacke roote.