479 
CROCUS -SATIVUS. 
SAFFRON CROCUS. 
SYNONYM J. Cr 
Pharm. Lond, 
Gerard, Emac.p. 15 
Raii Hifl. p* 1 1 76. Synop. p. 374. Crocus verus fativus autum 
Park. Par ad. p. 167. Crocus fativus. Banh. Pin. p. 6$ 
nalis. 
Budfon. Flor. Ang. p 
Withering. Bot. Arr. p 
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Phil. Tranf. vol. 3 2 . p. 44 1 . Du Homely and Fougeroux De B 
daroy. Mem. de UAcad. des Scien. de Paris, 1728. p 
92. / 
dp 
1. 2 
Clafs Triandria. Ord. Monogy 
Lin, Gen. Plant. 55 
EJf. Gen. Ch. Cor. 6-partita, 
Stigmata convoluta. 
Sp. 
C. fpatha univalvi radicali, corollae tubo longiflimo. 
* r 
M C. autumnalis, 4 /o//Vj- angujlioribus margine revolutis. Miller. Illuf. 
I 
# C. vernalis, foliis latioribns margine patulo. Jacquin. Auft, v. 5. 
Curt. Mag. 45. 
* 
THE root is bulbous, 
leaves, rifing very little above 
the flower appears after the 
ground upon a flender fucculent 
tube: the leaves rife higher than the flower, are linear, fimple, 
radical, of a rich green colour, with a white line running in the 
centre, and all at the bafe inclofed along with the tube of the flower 
in a membranous {heath : the flower is large, of a bluifh purple, or 
lilac colour: the corolla confifts of fix petals, which are nearly 
: the filaments are 
elliptical, equal, and turned inwards at the edges 
th 
ree, lhort, tapering, and fupport long ere£t yellow antherse : the 
germen is roundifh, from which iflues a flender ftyle, terminated by 
three long convoluted ftigmata, of a deep yellow colour : the capfule 
is roundifh, three-lobed, three-celled, three-valved, and contains 
feveral round feeds. It flowers in September and October. 
No. 36. 
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