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1 Bolbonac or the Sattin floure hath hard and round stalkes, diuiding themselues into many other small branches, beset with leaues like Dames Violets, or Queenes Gillofloures, somewhat broad, and snipt about the edges, and in fashion almost like Sauce alone, or Iacke by the hedge, but that they are longer and sharper pointed. The stalkes are charged or loden with many floures like the common stocke 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of a purple colour, which being 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the
seed commeth forth contained in a flat thin cod, with a sharp point or prick at one end, in fashion of the Moone, and somewhat blackish. This cod is composed of three filmes or skins, whereof 〈◊〉〈◊〉 two outmost are of an ouerworne ash colour, and the innermost, or that in the middle, whereon the seed doth hang or cleaue, is thin and cleere shining, like a shred of white Sattin newly cut from the peece. The whole plant dieth the same yeare that it hath borne seed, & must be sowne yearely. The root is compact of many tuberous parts like key clogs, or like the great Asphodill.
2 The second kind of Bolbonac or white Sattin hath many great and broad leaues, almost like those of the great burre Docke: among which riseth vp a very tall stem of the height of foure cu∣bits, stiffe, and of a whitish greene colour, set with the like leaues, but smaller. The floures grow vp∣on the slender branches, of a purple colour, compact of foure small leaues like those of the stocke Gillofloure; after which come thin long cods of the same substance and colour of the former. The root is thicke, whereunto are fastened an infinite number of long threddie strings: which roote di∣eth not euery yeare as the other doth, but multiplieth it selfe as well by falling of the seede, as by new shoots of the root.