¶ The Description.
1 THe blew Hare-bels or English Iacinth is very common throughout all England. It hath long narrow leaues leaning towards the ground, among the which spring vp naked
The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London
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or bare stalkes loden with many hollow blew Floures, of a strong sweet smell, somewhat stuffing the head: after which come the coddes or round knobs, containing a great quantitie of small blacke shining seed. The root is bulbous, full of a slimy glewish juyce, which wil serue to set fea∣thers vpon arrowes in stead of glew, or to paste bookes with: whereof is made the best starch next vnto that of Wake-robin roots.
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4 Hyacinthus Orientalis caeruleus. The blew Orientall Iacinth.
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5 Hyacinthus Orientalis Polyanthos. Many floured Orientall Iacinth.
2 The white English Iacinth is altogether like vnto the precedent, sauing that the leaues hereof are somewhat broader, the Floures more open, and very white of colour.
3 There is found wilde in many places of England, another sort, which hath Floures of a faire carnation colour, which maketh a difference from the other.
‡ There are also sundry other varieties of this sort, but I thinke it vnnecessarie to insist vpon them, their difference is so little, consisting not in their shape, but in the colour of their Floures. ‡
The blew Hare-bels grow wilde in woods, copses, and in the borders of fields euery where tho∣row England.
The other two are not so common, yet do they grow in the woods by Colchester in Essex, in the fields and woods by South-fleet, neere vnto Graues-end in Kent, as also in a piece of ground by Canturbury called the Clapper, in the fields by Bathe, about the woods by Warrington in Lan∣cashire, and other places.