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Rh but an accidentall kinde thereof, whereas it is (as is aid before) held to bee contant, continuing in this manner.

The pure yellow Fritillaria hath a more round, and not o flat a whitih roote as the former kindes, and of a meane bignee; from the middle rieth vp a talke a foote and a halfe high, and ometimes higher, whereon are et without order diuers long and omewhat broad leaues of a whitih greene colour, like vnto the leaues of the blacke Fritillaria, but not aboue halfe o broad: the flower is omewhat mall and long, not much vnlike to the blacke for hape and fahion, but that the leaues are maller and rounder pointed, of a faint yellowih colour, without any hew of pots or checkers at all, eyther within or without the flower, hauing ome chiues and yellow pendents in the middle, as is to be eene in all of them: the eede is like the firt kinde.

This Fritillaria groweth not much lower then the former, and brownih at the riing vp, hauing his leaues whiter, broader, and horter then it, and almot round pointed. The flower is greater, and larger pread then any other before, of a faire pale yellow colour, potted in very good order, with fine mall checkers, which adde a wonderfull pleaing beauty thereunto: it hath alo ome lits of greene running downe the backe of euery leafe. It eldome giueth eede; the roote alo is like the other, but not o flat.

This kinde of Fritillaria rieth vp with a round and browne greene talke, whereon are et diuers leaues omewhat broad and hort, which compae the talke at the bottome of them, of a darke greene colour; at the toppe of the talke, which bendeth a little downewards, doe mot vually tand three or foure leaues, betweene which commeth forth mot vually but one flower, which is longer then the lat, hanging downe the head as all the others doe, coniting of ixe leaues, of a darke yellowih purple colour, potted with ome mall red checkers. This kinde flowreth late, and not vntill all the ret are part.

This mall Italian Fritillaria carrieth more tore of flowers on the talke, but they are much maller, and of a yellowih greene colour, potted with long and mall darke red checkers or markes: the talke hath diuers mall hort greene leaues thereon, vnto the very toppe.

The leaues of this Fritillaria are o mall, narrow and long, that it hath caued them to take the name of ruhes, as if you hould call it, The ruh leafed Fritillaria, which tand on a long weake round talke, et without order: the flower is mall and yellow, but thicker checkerd with red pots then any of the other yellow Fritillaria's; the talk of the flower, at the head thereof, being alo of a yellowih colour.

The roote of this kinde doth often grow o great, that it eemeth like vnto the roote of a mall Crowne Imperiall: the talke is trong, round, and high, et without order, with broader and whiter greene leaues then any of the former, bearing one, two, or three flowers; ometimes at the toppe, being not o large as thoe of the ordinary purple Fritillaria, but maller, longer, and rounder, ometimes a little turning vp the brims or edges of the leaues againe, and are of a yellowih hining greene colour on Rh