Because the roote is so like vnto a Lilly, as the leafe is also, it hath most properly beene called _Hyacinthus Stellatus Lilifolio & radice_, or for breuity _Lilifolius_, that is, The Starry Lilly leafed Iacinth. It is called _Sarahug_ by the Inhabitants where it groweth, as Clusius maketh the report from Venerius, who further saith, that by experience they haue found the cattell to swell and dye, that haue eaten of the leaues thereof. [Illustration: 1 _Hyacinthus stellatus præcox cæruleus._ The early blew starry Iacinth. 2 _Hyacinthus stellatus præcox albus._ The early white starry Iacinth. 3 _Hyacinthus stellatus Byzantinus nigra radice._ The Turkie starry Iacinth with a blacke roote. 4 _Hyacinthus Byzantinus alter siue flore Boraginis._ The other starry Iacinth of Constantinople. 5 _Hyacinthus æstivus maior._ The greater Summer starry Iacinth. 6 _Hyacinthus stellatus flore cinereo._ The ash coloured starry Iacinth. 7 _Hyacinthus stellatus Lilifolius._ The Lilly leafed starre Iacinth. 8 _Hyacinthus Autumnalis._ The Autumne Iacinth. 9 _Scilla alba siue Hyacinthus marinus._ The Sea Onion or Squill. ] _Hyacinthus Autumnalis maior._ The greater Autumne Iacinth. The greater Autumne Iacinth hath fiue or six very long and narrow greene leaues, lying vpon the ground; the stalkes are set at the toppe with many starre-like flowers, of a pale blewish purple colour, with some pale coloured threeds, tipt with blew, standing about the head in the middle, which in time growing ripe, containeth therein small blacke seede, and roundish: the roote is great and white on the outside. _Hyacinthus Autumnalis minor._ The lesser Autumne Iacinth. This lesser Iacinth hath such like long and small leaues, but narrower then the former: the stalke is not full so high, but beareth as many flowers on it as the other, which are of a pale or bleake purple colour, very like vnto it also: the roote and seed are like the former, but smaller. These both for the most part, beare their flowers and seede before the greene leaues rise vp much aboue the ground. [Sidenote: _Flore albo._] There is a kinde hereof found that beareth white flowers, not differing in any other thing from the smaller purple kinde last mentioned. The Place. The first and last are onely kept in Gardens, and not knowne to vs where their naturall place of growing wilde may be. The second groweth wilde in many places of England. I gathered diuers rootes for my Garden, from the foote of a high banke by the Thames side, at the hither end of Chelsey, before you come at the Kings Barge-house. The Time. The greatest flowreth in the end of Iuly, and in August.