But that white flower that Iohn Tradescante shewed me, and as hee saith, was deliuered him for a white Pumilio, had a stalke longer then they set out theirs to haue, and the flower also larger, but yet had narrower leaues then other sorts of white Tulipas haue. _Tulipa Bicolor._ The small party coloured Tulipa. Vnto these kindes, I may well adde this kinde of Tulipa also, which was sent out of Italy, whose leaues are small, long, and narrow, and of a darke greene colour, somewhat like vnto the leaues of an Hyacinth: the flower is small also, consisting of sixe leaues, as all other Tulipas doe, three whereof are wholly of a red colour, and the other three wholly of a yellow. [Illustration: 1 _Tulipa Bombycina flore rubro._ The red Bolonia Tulipa. 2 _Tulipa Boloniensis flore luteo._ The yellow Bolonia Tulipa. 3 _Tulipa pumilio rubra siue lutea._ The red or yellow dwarfe Tulipa. 4 _Folium Tulipa de Cassa per totum striuatum._ The leafe of the Tulipa of Cassa striped throughout the whole leafe. 5 _Folium Tulipa Cassa per oras striatum._ The leafe of the Tulipa of Cassa striped at the edges onely. 6 _Tulipa Persica._ The Persian Tulipa. 7 _Tulipa Cretica._ The Tulipa of Candie. 8 _Tulipa Armeniaca._ The Tulipa of Amenia. ] _Tulipa Persica._ The Persian Tulipa. This rare Tulipa, wherewith we haue beene but lately acquainted, doth most fitly deserue to be described in this place, because it doth so neerely participate with the Bolonia and Italian Tulipas, in roote, leafe, and flower: the roote hereof is small, couered with a thicke hard blackish shell or skinne, with a yellowish woollinesse both at the toppe, and vnder the shell. It riseth out of the ground at the first, with one very long and small round leafe, which when it is three or foure inches high, doth open it selfe, and shew forth another small leafe (as long almost as the former) breaking out of the one side thereat, and after it a third, and sometimes a fourth, and a fift; but each shorter then other, which afterwards be of the breadth of the dwarfe yellow Tulipa, or somewhat broader but much longer then any other, and abiding more hollow, and of the colour of the early Tulipas on the inside: the stalke riseth vp a foot and a halfe high sometimes, bearing one flower thereon, composed of sixe long and pointed leaues of the forme of other small Tulipas, and not shewing much bigger then the yellow Italian Tulipa, and, is wholly white, both inside and outside of all the leaues, except the three outtermost, which haue on the backe of them, from the middle toward the edges, a shew of a brownish blush or pale red colour, yet deeper in the midst, and the edges remaining wholly white: the bottomes of all these leaues are of a darke or dun tawnie colour, and the chiues and tippes of a darkish purple or tawnie also. This doth beare seed but seldome in our country, that euer I could vnderstand, but when it doth, it is small