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This Tulipa is very like vnto the yellow Bolonia Tulipa, both in roote, leafe, and flower, as alo in the colour thereof, being yellow: the onely difference is, that it is in all things leer and lower, and is not o apt to beare, nor o plentifull to encreae by the roote.

Both thee kindes of Tulipas doe o neere reemble the lat kinde, that I might almot ay they were the ame, but that ome difference which I aw in them, maketh mee et them apart; and coniteth in thee things, the talkes of neither of both thee rie o high, as of the firt yellow Bolonia Tulipa: the leaues of both orts are writhed in and out at the edges, or made like a waue of the ea, lying neerer the ground, and the flower being yellow within, is brownih or reddih on the backe, in the middle of the three outer leaues the edges appearing yellow. Both thee kindes doe differ one from the other in nothing, but in that one is bigger, and the other maller then the other which I aw with Iohn Tradecante, my very good friend often remembred.

This dwarfe Tulipa is alo of the ame kindred with the three lat decribed; for there is no other difference in this from them, then that the flower hath ome red veins running in the leaues thereof.

There are two other orts of dwarfe Tulipas with white flowers, whereof Lobel hath made mention in the Appendix to his Adueraria; the one whereof is the ame that Cluius etteth forth, vnder the title of Pumilio alter a: but becaue I haue not een either of them both, I peake no further of them.

But that white flower that Iohn Tradecante hewed me, and as hee aith, was deliuered him for a white Pumilio, had a talke longer then they et out theirs to haue, and the flower alo larger, but yet had narrower leaues then other orts of white Tulipas haue.

Vnto thee kindes, I may well adde this kinde of Tulipa alo, which was ent out of Italy, whoe leaues are mall, long, and narrow, and of a darke greene colour, omewhat like vnto the leaues of an Hyacinth: the flower is mall alo, coniting of ixe leaues, as all other Tulipas doe, three whereof are wholly of a red colour, and the other three wholly of a yellow.

This rare Tulipa, wherewith we haue beene but lately acquainted, doth mot fitly deerue to be decribed in this place, becaue it doth o neerely participate with the Bolonia and Italian Tulipas, in roote, leafe, and flower: the roote hereof is mall, couered with a thicke hard blackih hell or skinne, with a yellowih woollinee both at the toppe, and vnder the hell. It rieth out of the ground at the firt, with one very long and mall round leafe, which when it is three or foure inches high, doth open it elfe, and hew forth another mall leafe (as long almot as the former) breaking out of the one ide thereat, and after it a third, and ometimes a fourth, and a fiftfifth [sic]; but each horter then other, which afterwards be of the breadth of the dwarfe yellow Tulipa, or omewhat broader, but much longer then any other, and abiding more hollow, and of the colour of the early Tulipas on the inide: the talke rieth vp a foot and a halfe Rh