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42 ixe chiues tipt with yellow pendents, and a three-forked tile or pointell compaing a greene head, which when the flower is pat, rieth vpright againe, and becommeth the eede veell, being omewhat long and round, yet hauing a mall hew of edges, flat at the head, like the head of a Lilly, and without any crowne as the Tulipa hath, wherein is contained pale coloured flat eede, like vnto a Lilly, but maller.

There is ome variety to be eene in this flower; for in ome the colour is paler, and in others againe of a very high or deepe colour: ometimes alo they haue eight leaues, and ometimes ten or twelue, as if two flowers were made one, which ome thereupon haue called a Double Fritillaria. Some of them likewie doe flower very early, euen with or before the early flowring Tulipas; and ome againe flower not vntill a moneth or more after the former.

The roote of this Fritillaria is omewhat rounder and cloer then the former, from whence the talke rieth vp, being horter and lower then in any other of thee kindes, hauing one or two leaues thereon, and at the top thereof two or three more et cloer together, which are broader, horter, and whiter then any of them before, almot like vnto the leaues of the yellow Fritillaria, from among which toppe leaues commeth forth the flower, omewhat bending downe, or rather tanding forth, being larger then any of the former, and almot equall in bignee vnto the yellow Fritillaria, of a duskie gray colour all ouer on the outide, and of a very darke red colour on the inide, diuerly potted or traked: this very hardly encreaeth by the roote, and as eldome giueth ripe feede, but flowreth with the other firt orts, and before the blacke, and abideth lee time in flower then any.

This great Fritillaria hath his roote equall to the bignee of the ret of his parts, from whence rieth vp one, & oftentimes two talks, hauing one, two or three flowers a peece on them, as nature and the eaons are itting: euery one of thee flowers are larger and greater then any of the former decribed, and pendulous as they are, of a ad red or purplih colour, with many thwart lines on them, and mall long markes, which hardly eeme checkerwie, nor are o eminent or conpicuous as in the former: the talke is trong and high, whereon are et diuers long whitih greene leaues, larger and broader then thoe of the former.

The white Fritillaria is o like vnto the firt, that I hall not neede to make another decription of this: it hall (I hope) be ufficient to hew the chiefe differences, and o proceed to the ret. The talke and leaues of this are wholly greene, whereby it may eaily be knowne from the former, which, as is aid, is brownih at the bottome. The flower is white, without almot any hew of pot or marke in it, yet in ome the markes are omewhat more plainly to be eene, and in ome againe there is a hew of a faint kinde of bluh colour to be eene in the flower, epecially in the inide, the bottomes of the leaues of euery flower ometimes are greenih, hauing alo a mall lit of greene, comming downe towards the middle of each leafe: the head or eede veell, as alo the eede and the roote, are o like vnto the former, that the mot cunning cannot ditinguih them.

This Fritillaria hath a round flattih white roote, very like vnto the lat Fritillaria, bearing a talke with long greene leaues thereon, little differing from it, or the firt ordinary Fritillaria: the flower is aid to be contant, compoed of many leaues, being ten at the leat, and mot vually twelue, of a pale whitih purple colour, potted like vnto the paler ordinary Fritillaria that is early, o that one would verily thinke it were Rh