. ees. Garden of of pleafant Flowers. 
but fhorter , and of a pale er grayifh greene colour, differing — the eater = 
the other Medowe Satfrons : the rooteis like the roote of the Englith or Hun varia | 
without any difference, butthat i it groweth fomewhat grease It is one of the fet Me 
dowe Saffrons that fowerin the Autumne, 
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7. Colcbicam Nespolitanum Frititaricam, : | { 
The checkerd Medowe Saffron of Naples, iy f 
‘Thischeckerd Medowe Saffton of Na ples, is very like vnto the laf ae, eC 
kerd Saffron of Portugall, but that the flower is fomewhat larger, yet fometimes yery 
“Tittle, or not at all : the greateft marke to diftinguifhthem is , thatthe flowers of thig 
‘are ofa deeper Sadappiggr ac! Sa {pots on the flowers likewife ; whichare focop 
~ picuous, that they are difcerned tway off, more like vato the flowers of a decpe 
 Fritillaria, then fe-Hecner ae ea goodlier anda more glorious fhew : the leaurs 
of this dee rife vp early after the isk and arefomewhat longer, of'a darker Sreene 
colour, yet bending to agrayifhcolouras the other, not lying fo neatly or round, but 
ftand vp one by another, oo as it were folded together : neither of both thele lat 
_ named Sbseterd Medowe Saffrons haue giuen any feede in this Countrey, that cuer] 
1 eS »but are encreafed b a pate bai inthis is like the for 
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ee a4 (aT eae kexecifall orice Seacfocue! : the Iéaues fe oe dn Hie/ee 
perth inter, andofs paler 
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greene colour, lying clofe vpont broad atthe bortome 
theenid, and wi ing ¢ =riedateatea ene : cB, as 
thiskinde, but {imal and long; and tek (es Ridowee: : 
any of theother, even not vntill Notbmiler, salt is very hard to be preferued wi 
-~ in that for themoft partthe roote waxeth leffe and lefle enery yeare, our cold Ker 
peing fa vato his naturall, thacie will {carce fh wv his ower . yet wh 
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Aether Betids «she leaks a 
of a brownith or darkeg reene 
