For any other, or further description of this kinde of Tulipa, it shall not neede, hauing giuen it sufficiently in the former early Tulipa, the maine difference consisting first in the time of flowring, which is about a moneth after the early Tulipas, yet some more some lesse; for euen in the _Præcoces_, or early ones, some flower a little earlier, and later then others, and then in the colours of the flowers; for wee haue obserued many colours, and mixtures, or varieties of colours in the _Medias_, which we could neuer see in the _Præcoces_, and so also some in the _Præcoces_, which are not in the _Medias_: yet there is farre greater varieties of mixture of colours in these _Medias_, then hath been obserued in all the _Præcoces_, (although Clusius saith otherwise) eyther by my selfe, or by any other that I haue conuersed with about this matter, and all this hath happened by the sowing of the seede, as I said before. I will therefore in this place not trouble you with any further circumstance, then to distinguish them, as I haue done in the former early Tulipas, into their foure primary colours, and vnder them, giue you their seuerall varieties and names, for so much as hath come to my knowledge, not doubting, but that many that haue trauelled in the sowing of the seed of Tulipas many yeares, may obserue each of them to haue some variety that others haue not: and therefore I thinke no one man can come to the knowledge of all particular distinctions. _Tulipa media alba._ 1 _Niuea, fundo albo vel luteo._ 2 _Argentea, quasi alba cineracea fundo lutescente, purpureis staminibus._ 3 _Margaritina alba, carneo dilutissima._ 4 _Alba, fundo cæruleo vel nigro._ 5 _Albida._ 6 _Alba, oris rubris._ {_Hæc tria genera in {in aliquibus 7 _Alba, purpureis oris._ {constantertenent {tenent oras, in 8 _Alba, oris coccineis._ {alijs dispergunt._ 9 _Albida primum, deinde albidior, oris purpureis, & venis intrò respicientibus, dicta nobis Hackquenay._ 10 _Alba, sanguineo colore variata, fundo vel albissimo, vel alio._ 11 _Alba, radiatim disposita flammis, & maculis coccineis._ 12 _Alba, purpurea rubedine plumata, diuersarum specierum, quæ cum superiore, vel albo, vel luteo, vel paruo cæruleo constant fundo, quæ constanter tenent punctatos colores, & non dispergunt, sed post trium aut quatuor dierum spatium pulchriores apparent._ 13 _Panni argentei coloris, i.e. alba, plumata, punctata, striata, vel diuersimodè variata, rubedine dilutiore, vel saturatiore purpurea, interius vel exterius, vel vtrinq., diuersarum specierum._ 14 _Tunica morionis alba varia, i.e. ex albo & purpureo striata diuersimodè, fundo albo vel alio._