\6o 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants 



L 



IB. I. 



deepe 



of this 



le 



10 



toots and leaues like to the firft described, but the flouie is morterand 



. 



difh purple, the three out leaues are either wholly white, or purplifhonthe middk *Z 



of the floore 



ftreaked wirh 6 ire purple veins, or fpouerr ttZ SiouS ^3lS3SS 



:blunterandroundcrtharnnthecommonkinde.- 



JL ZlffJJ! , ?S C !» r°°?' ? a l nnei ; and time of growing, as alfo in the colourof the 





of many 



* -. 



r <m -)£d- 





t 5 Colchicummomamm minus vcrGco- 



lorefiore. 



The lefler mountaine Saffron with 

 a various coloured floure. 







aamsa? 



* * 



I 



& coichuum. 





. ■ 



n 



teum. 



Greece medow Saffron. 



> 





it] 



, 





e r 



W 



i 



12 



the fir ft ordinary 



s 



are fomewhat 



leile,and the three out- leaues are fomewhat bi && , 



tie deeper alfo than that of the common one ; but that wherein the principal! difference coniin* 

 is, That this floures twice in a yeare, to wit, in the Spring and Autumnc : and hence ClymW 

 called it Colchictim b'tfiorum^ Twice flouring Mede Saffron. 



1 2 This alfo in the fhape of the root and leaues is not much differing from the ordina 7' D ^ 



the leaues of the floure are longer and narrower, the co 



themfelucs,is white,but fhortly after they are changed iuw * ugui, ^»» ^ • — y ----, . , ^ f 



hath a white thread tipt with yellow growing out of it, and in the middle (tends a wmte : tnret 

 . , . ....«* n %.« n° !__._.__ _t .!,.„„ ^» frt.ir/> l#>aiK»s. narrower ["<»' 



thole 



are beholden 



foiire 



Clttfi, 



14 



fe it then floures together with the Spring Saifrons and Dogs Tooth. . 



There are other Mede-Saffrons befides thefc I haue mentioned, but became tney 



be 



I 



