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AUTUMNALE. 
COMMON MEADOW 
SAFFRON. 
$Y NO NT MA 
Colchic 
■ 
Pharm. Lond. &f Edinb. Colch 
cum commune- Bauh, Pin. p.- 67. Rail Hift 
70 
► 373- 
Emac, p 
Colchicu 
purp 
1 
& Anglicum alb 
Synop. 
Gerard 
57< 
Park. Par ad. p 
S3 
Colchicum Flore folium 
ge prsecedente, petal 
Hall. Stir p. Helv. n. 125 
e 
autumnale. Hudfon. FI. Ang. p. 136* Ed. 1762. Light. Fl. 
&19 
Withering. BoUArr.p. 379. Stoerck Lib.de Colch 
Clafs Hexandria. On/- Trigynia- Zi#. G^/z. Plant. 457. 
M G^» C£. Cor. 6-partita: tubo radicato. Capfulte eonnexsc inflate. 
J 
Sp. Gh. 
C. foliis planis lanceolatis ere&is- 
* Flore fimplici. & Flore pleno. 
1 
4 
THE root is perennial, confifting of a folid double fucculent bulb, 
covered with a brown membranous coat : the flower is large, of a 
purplifh colour, and rifes immediately from the root upon a long 
naked tube, a like that of the Saffron* *.\ the leaves appear in the 
i'pring, and are numerous, radical*, fpear-fhaped, one or two much 
narrower than the others ; there is no calyx : the corolla is monope- 
talous, and divided into fix lance-fhaped large erect fegments, of a 
pale purple colour : the filaments are fix, tapering, white, much 
ihorter than the corolla, and furnifhed with erecl: pointed yellow 
r 
antherse : the germen is lodged at the root, from which iiTue three 
flender ftyles, reflexed at the top, and terminated by fimple pointed 
ftigmata : the caplule is three-lobed, divided into three cells, containing 
aumerous fmall globular feeds, which do not ripen till the fucceeding 
fpring, when the caplule rifes above the ground upon a flrong peduncle. 
It is a native of England, affecting meadow grounds of a rich foil 3 b and 
flowers in September. 
Hence it has been called naked lady. b Tt is not fo rare a plant as the Saffron. 
No. 36. 
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