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The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



vpon the fame (hort foote-ftalke, which then rifeth vp a little higher, (hewing the ma- 

 ner of the (landing of the flowers, which in their flowring time could not fo eafily bee 

 difcerned : the roote is very fmall and round, hauing one fide at the bottome lower 

 then the other, very like the roote of a Gdchicum or Medowe Saffron, and fomewhat 

 neare refembling alfo the hoofe of an horfe foote, couered with a very thicke skinne, 

 of a darke or blackifh browne colour : this flowreth the laft of all the former forts of 

 Saffron flowers, euen when they are all part. 



21. Crocus vernus purpureus Jtriatus Capillarifolio. 

 The ftript purple Crocus with fmall leaues. 



This fmall ftript purple Saffron flower hath fuch like leaues, as the laft defcribed 

 hath, betweene which rifeth the flower vpon as fhort a foote-ftalke, confiding of fix 

 leaues like the former, of a faire purple colour on the outfide of the three outer leaues, 

 with three lines or ftrakes downe euery leafe, of a deeper purple colour, and on the in- 

 fide of a paler purple, as the other three leaues are alfo, with fome chiues tipt with yel- 

 low pendents, and a forked pointell in the middle: the roote of this is fomewhat 

 bigger then the former, and rounder, but couered with as thicke and as browne a 

 skinne : it flowreth about the fame time with the former. 



22. Crocus vernus luteus Jiue Mte/tacus. The yellow Crocus. 



The yellow Crocus or Saffron flower, rifeth vp with three or foure leaues out of 

 the ground, being fomewhat neare the breadth of the great purple kindes, with a white 

 line in them, as in moft of the reft : the flowers ftand in the middle of thefe leaues, and 

 are very large, of a gold yellow colour, with fome chiues, and a forked point in the 

 middle : the feede hereof is of a brighter colour then in any of the other : the roote is 

 great and round, as great or greater then a Wall Nut fometimes, and couered with red- 

 difh skinnes or coates, yeelding more ftore of flowers then moft of the former, and be- 

 ginning to blowe with the firft forts, or prefently after, but outlaft many of them, and 

 are of a pleafant good fent. 



Flore auree. Of this kinde we haue fome, whofe flowers are of a deeper gold yellow colour then 

 others, fo that they appeare reddifh withall. 



Flore pallido. And we haue alfo another fort, whofe flowers are very pale, betweene a white and a 

 yellow, not differing in any thing elfe. 



Flore virMantc And another fmaller, whofe flower hath a fhew of greennefle in the yellow, and 



luteo. more greene at the bottome. 



23. Crocus vernus flavus ftriatus. The yellow ftript Crocus. 



This kinde of yellow ftript Crocus or Saffron flower, rifeth vp with more ftore of 

 narrower and greener leaues then the former, and after the leaues are fpread, there rife 

 vp many yellow flowers from among them, which are not of fo faire and bright a yel- 

 low colour, but more dead and fullen, hauing on the backfide of each of the three out- 

 termoft leaues, three fmall ftripes, of an ouer-worne or dull purple colour, with fome 

 chiues and a pointell in the middle : the roote of this kinde, is very like the roote of 

 the former yellow, but fomewhat fmaller and fhorter, and couered with the like red- 

 difh skinnes, but a little fadder : it flowreth not fo early as the former yellow, but abi- 

 deth almoft as long as it. 



24. Crocus iiernus luteus ver/tco/or primus. The beft cloth of gold Crocus. 



The faireft cloth of gold Crocus or Saffron flower, rifeth vp very early, euen with 

 the firft, or the firft of all other Crocus, with three or foure very narrow and (hort 

 leaues, of a whiter colour then any of the former, which by and by after doe (hew 

 forth the flowers, rifing from among them out of the fame white skinne, which in- 

 cludeth the leaues, but are not fo plentifull as the former yellow, being but two or 

 three at the moft, of a faire gold yellow colour, yet fomewhat paler then the firft, ha- 

 uing 



