This ash coloured Iacinth, hath his leaues very like vnto the leaues of the English Iacinth, and spreading vpon the ground in the same manner, among which rise vp one or two stalkes, set at the toppe with a number of small starre-like flowers, bushing bigger below then aboue, of a very pale or white blew, tending to an ash colour, and very sweete in smell: the seede is blacke and round, like vnto the seede of the English Iacinth, and so is the roote, being great, round, and white; so like, I say, that it is hard to know the one from the other. The Place. The certaine originall place of growing thereof, is not knowne to vs. The Time. It flowreth in Aprill. The Names. Some doe call this _Hyacinthus Someri_, Somers Iacinth, because as Lobel saith, he brought it first into the Lowe-Countries, eyther from Constantinople, or out of Italy. _Hyacinthus Stellatus Lilifolio & radice cæruleo._ The blew Lilly leafed Starre Iacinth. This Iacinth hath six or seuen broad greene leaues, somewhat like vnto Lilly leaues, but shorter (whereof it tooke his name as well as from the roote) spread vpon the ground, and lying close and round: before the stalke riseth out from the middle of these leaues, there doth appeare a deepe hollow place, like a hole, to bee seene a good while, which at length is filled vp with the stalke, rising thence vnto a foote or more high, bearing many starre-like flowers at the toppe, of a perfect blew colour, neare vnto a Violet, and sometimes of paler or bleake blew colour, hauing as it were a small cuppe in the middle, diuided into six peeces, without any threeds therein: the seede is blacke and round, but not shining: the roote is somewhat long, bigge belowe, and small aboue, like vnto the small roote of a Lilly, and composed of yellow scales, as a Lilly, but the scales are greater, and fewer in number. _Hyacinthus Stellatus Lilifolius albus._ The white Lilly leafed Starre Iacinth. The likenesse of this Iacinth with the former, causeth me to be briefe, and not to repeate the same things againe, that haue already been expressed: You may therefore vnderstand, that except in the colour of the flower, which in this is white, there is no difference betweene them. [Sidenote: _Flore carneo._] I heare of one that should beare blush coloured flowers, but I haue not yet seene any such. The Place. These Iacinths haue been gathered on the Pyrenæan Hils, in that part of France that is called Aquitaine, and in some other places. The Time. These flower in Aprill, and sometimes later. The Names.