c A The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



leaues, when they are fully growne vp, (landing on the toppe of a round, weake, green, 

 and fhort foote-ftalke, fomewhat like the leaues of white Lillies, but not fo large, and 

 in the middeft of thefe leaues, after they haue been vp f ome time, appeare two or three 

 loofe skinny heads, (landing in the middle of the leaues vpon (hort, thicke, greene 

 ftalkes, and being ripe, conteine in them round fmall brownifh feede, that lye as it 

 were loofe therein, and when the head is dry, may bee heard to rattle being fhaken : 

 the roote is white within, but couered with a thicke blackifh skinne or coate, hauing 

 one fide thereof at the bottome longer then the other, with an hollowneffe alfo on 

 the one (ide of that long eminence, where the flowers rife from the bottome, and 

 (hooting downe from thence a number of white fibres, whereby it is faftened in the 

 ground : the greene leaues afterwards rifing from the top or head of the roote. 



2. Colchicum Anglicum purpurcum. The purple Englifh Medowe Saffron. 



There is no difference at all in this Medowe Saffron from the former, but only in the 

 colour of the flowers, which as they were wholly white in the former, fo in this they 

 are of a delayed purple colour, with a fmall fhew of veines therein. 



3. Colchicum Pannonicum album. The white Hungary Medowe Saffron. 



The greatefl difference in this Colchicum from the former Englifh white one, is, that 

 it is larger both in roote, leafe, and flower, and befides, hath more ftore of flowers to- 

 gether, and continuing longer in beauty, without fading fo foone as the former, and 

 are alfo fomewhat of a fairer white colour. 



4. Colchicum Pannonicum purpureum. The purple Hungary Medowe Saffron. 



This purple Medowe Saffron is fomewhat like vnto the white of this kinde, but that 

 it beareth not fo plentifully as the white, nor doth the roote grow fo great ; but the 

 flowers are in a manner as large as they, and of the like pale delayed purple colour, or 

 fomewhat deeper, as is in the purple Englifh, with fome veines or markes vpon the 

 flowers, making fome fhew of a checker on the out (ide, but not fo confpicuous, as in 

 the true checkerd kindes. Wee haue a kinde hereof is party coloured with white 

 ftreakes and edges, which abide conftant, and hath been raifed from the feede of the 

 former. 



5. Colchicum Byzantinum. Medowe Saffron of Conftantinople. 



This Medowe Saffron of Conftantinople hath his leaues fo broad and large, that 

 hardly could any that neuer faw it before, iudge it to be a Colchicum ; for they are much 

 larger then any Lilly leaues, and of a darke greene colour : the flowers are correfpon- 

 dent to the leaues, larger and more in number then in any of the former purple kindes, 

 of the fame colour with the laft purple kinde, but of a little deeper purple on the in- 

 lide, with diuers markes running through the flowers, like vnto it, or vnto checkers, 

 but yet fomewhat more apparently: the roote is in the middle greater and rounder 

 then the others, with a longer eminence, whereby it may eafily bee knowne from all 

 other forts. 



6. Colchicum Lujitanicum Fritillaricum. 

 The checkerd Medowe Saffron of Portugal!. 



The flowers of this Medowe Saffron are larger and longer then the flowers of either 

 the Englifh or Hungarian, and almoft as large as the lad before mentioned, and of the 

 fame colour, but a little deeper, the fpots and markes whereof are fomewhat more 

 eane to be feene euen a farre off, like vnto the flower of a Fritillaria, from whence it 

 tooke his lignificatiue name : the leaues of this Medowe Saffron doe rife vp fooner 

 then in any other of the Autumne kindes ; for they are alwayes vp before Winter, and 

 are foure or fiue in number, fhort rather then long, broad belowe, and pointed at the 

 end, canaled or hollow, and (landing round aboue the ground, one encompaffing an- 

 other at the bottome, like the great Spanifh Starre lacinth, called the lacinth of Peru, 



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