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‘CHAP, xvii, 
Crocus. 
Repsssoemal 4 fron is of divers forts, fome flowering in the Spring, 
a Qe) and others in Autum, whereof the tre Saffron is a 
‘eh! kind, all che reft are onely entertained -for the beauty 
of their Flowers, which are of three Principal colours, 
white, purple, and yellow, deeper and lighter, bigger 
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and fmaller ; and fome ftriped, feathered, or flamed, as in the fol- 
“towing defcriptions is expreffed, and firft of the white and mee 
varieties thereof, 
Crocus albus major. 
THe great white Crocus rifeth up with narrow long green leaves,’ 
with a white line in the middeft of them, and as foon as thefe 
leaves appear out of the ground, there cometh up in the middle of 
them , covered with a thin white skin, {mall low white Flowers. 
contpofed of fix leaves, with fome chives, and along Saffron pointe 
inthe middle, which never open but when the Sun{ hines warm upon 
thems after the Flowers are paft, the green leaves grow longer, and — 
the feeds fucceed, which is {mall and round, contained in alow three. — 
fquare husk of a yellowith red colour ; the root is fmall 5 Tound and 
flat, covered witha ruffet coat s there is a leffer of this kind thac . 
eareth very {mall white Flowers of little efteem, ioe 
Crocus Mefiacus. 
[ie white Crocus of Mafia islike the laft great white, but bigger, 
and bearing more Flowers from one root , but not of fo pure a 
white colour, but rather inclining to yellow; there is one of this 
ind, with the bottom of the Flower and part of the ftalk of a 
bright blew colour, and there is another of a@ pure white colour, 
ni a bottom and ftalk blew, of the feeds whereof the next was 
taifed, 3 
Crocus plumatus pallidus. 
‘|; * pale feathered Crocus , is fomething like the laft white, but 
larger, and not fo round Pointed; theftalk and bottom of the 
flower is blew, like unto it; the three outward leaves on the backs or. 
outfides are all white or filver-colour, and on the infides finely ftri- 
fides thereof; thisis not fo sommon as many of the other are, and 
is indeed one of the bet we have, 
Crocus 
