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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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long, broad, fmooth, fat, much like to the leaues of the white Lillic in forme an 1 



/r r r /™°°™ neffe ;™ thcmidd,ewhe ^ 

 nefle of a fma 11 Wall-nut, landing vpon fhort tender foot-ftalkes,three fquare,and openine them 

 felues when they be ripe, full of feed fomething round, and of a blackifh red colour : arfei S 

 this feed is ripe, the leaues together with the ftalkesdoe fade and fall away. In September th? 

 floures bud forth,befcre any leaues appeare, (landing vpon fhort tender and whitifh ftemmes lit 

 in forme and colour tothefloures of Saffron, hauing in the middle fmallchiucs or threds'of I 

 pale yellow colour, altogether vnfit for meat or medicine. The root is round or bulbous fharncr 

 at the one end than at the other, flat on the one fide, hauing a deepe clift or furrow in the fame fla 

 iide when it floureth,and not at any time elfe : it is couered with blackifh coats or filmes : it f en 

 dethdownevnto the loweft part certaine firings or threds. Theroot itfelfeisfu'lofawhitefub 

 fiance, yeelding a juyce like milke, whileft it is greene and newly digged out of the earth. It is in 



rafte fweet, with a little bitterneffe following,which draweth water out of the mouth . 



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3 Colchicum Pamonicumfiorens & fine {lore. 



Hungary Mede Saffron with and without floure. 



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of Mede Saffron is like the precedent, diff< 



the floures 



fame 



bewufe k «*tte«A fl^V^ teli^ VwhM<me time. So that the 61 jft n|"£ ^ *„ 

 when i, i, in ieane, and M, and the other when .. floure* ; and to *« one .def np .o ■ 



fu ffice for 



(hoore ri- 



ch time the leaues do wither away, but in tne oeginuiug u. ^t»«- •»- h plaDt 



ground naked milke white floures without any greene leafeat all *fJ° { ^™' $ Zz ^ 

 p\ . 1-i ca — », *i,. mnt ^mainM in the sround, not fending tortn anyi»»& 



the„ 

 bearing of floures 



Februarie in the yeare followin 



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