15 _Holias alba vel albida, absq., fundo, vel fundo purpureo cæruleo, vel cæruleo albo circundato, diuersè signata, vel variata intus ad medietatem foliorum, sursum in orbem vt plurimum, vel ad oras pertingens amplas & albas. Hæ species tantoperè multiplicantur, vt vix sint explicabiles._ _Tanta est huius varietas, vel multitudine, vel striarum paucitate & distinctione, vel fundis variantibus, vt ad tædium esset perscribere._ The white meane flowring Tulipa. 1 A snow white, with a white or yellow bottome. 2 A siluer colour, that is, a very pale or whitish ashe colour, with a yellowish bottome and purple chiues. 3 A Pearle colour, that is, white, with a wash or shew of blush. 4 A white, with a blew or blacke bottome. 5 A Creame colour. 6 A white, with red edges. {These three sorts {doe hold their 7 A white, with purple edges. {their edges constant {in some, but well 8 A white, with crimson edges. {spread in others. 9 A pale or whitish yellow, which after a few dayes groweth more white, with purplish red edges, and some streakes running inward from the edge, which we call an Hackney. 10 A white mixed with a bloud red very variably, and with a pure white, or other coloured bottome. 11 A white, streamed with crimson flames, and spots through the whole flower. 12 A white, speckled with a reddish purple, more or lesse, of diuers sorts, with white, yellow, or blew bottomes, all which doe hold their markes constant, and doe not spread their colours, but shew fairer after they haue stood blown three or foure dayes. 13 A cloth of siluer of diuers sorts, that is, a white spotted, striped, or otherwise marked with red or purple, in some paler, in some deeper, either on the inside, or on the outside, or on both. 14 A white Fooles coate of diuers sorts, that is, purple or pale crimson, and white, as it were empaled together, eyther with a white ground or other, whereof there is great variety. 15 A white Holias, that is, a faire white, or paler white, eyther without a bottome, or with a blewish purple bottome, or blew and white circling the bottome, and from the middle vpwards, speckled and straked on the inside for the most part, with bloud red or purplish spots and lines vnto the very edges, which abide large and white. Of this kinde there are found very great varieties, not to be expressed. Of this sort there is so much variety, some being larger or fairer marked then others, their bottomes also varying, that it is almost impossible to express them.