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Mcdow Saffron 



his name. The titles of the reft do fet forth their natiue countries j notwithftanding our London 

 gardens are poflefled with the moft part of them. 



The two firft do grow in England in great aboundance in fat and fertile medowes, as about Vil- 

 ford and Bathe,as alfo in the medowes neere toafmall village in the Weft part of England 5 called 

 Shepton Mallec,in the med^ves about Briftoll/in Kingftrop medow necre vnto a water mil as you 

 go from Northampton to Holmby houfe, vpon the right hand of the way, and like wife in grear 

 plenty in Nobottle wood two miles from Northampton^and in many other places. 



$ The reft for the moft part may be found in the gardens of the Florifts among vs, % 



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feed is ripe in Iune. The leaues 5 ftalks,and feed doperifh in Iuly,and their pleafant floures docome 



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DiofcoridesczWcth. Medow Saffron *.**«', « fome, "EfW . notwithftanding there is another £/&- 

 meron which is not deadly.Diuers name it jn Latine Bulb us agreftis, or wild Bulbe : in high Dutcn 

 it is called ZtitlOQfm J «» lovv Dutch, ^llCeiOOfen S in French,^/ m chien. Some haue taken i 

 to be the true HermodaayLyetfalfely. Other fome call it /V/owa^ww, although there is 

 Jcinde oUyfimacbia or Loofe-ftrife fo called,becaufe it firft bringeth forth his long cods with to*. 

 andthenthefloureafter,oratthefametimeattheendofthefaidcod. But m this Medc barrr 

 it is far othcrwife, becaufc it bringeth forth leaues in Fehruaric, feed in May, and Houresin *v 

 tember , which is a thing cleane contraric to all other plants what taer, «r ^t they doc § 



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after feed : but this Saffron ieedeth hrft, 



3re fome haue thought this a fit name for 



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