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Crocus Neapolitanus ceruleus. 
T# blew Neapolitan’ Crocus only. differeth from. the ‘greater 
purple, inthat the flowers of this are of a dee p-sky colour, with 
a dark bottome; 
“on Crocus plumatus purpireus. 
He purple feathered Croéus is like the greater purple, bur 2 little 
bigger and rounder pointed, the three outer leaves of the flower 
paler purple on both fides likewife, and this is accounted the beft of 
all the forts have hitherto come to our knowledge, Si 
Crocus purpureus firiatus. 
T# great purple fpripedCrecusis like the Greater purplesche flowers 
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Crocus purpureus flammeus major, z 
T*% Sreater purple flamed Crocus hath frether green leaves than the 
other purples, the flowers are of 2 middle fife, of a whitith pale Q 
purple on the ourfide, and deeper on the infide, ftriped and flamed 
throughout every leaf thereof s there is another of this kind that is S 
leffer in all the parts thereof, the flowers of a deeper purple, flamed : 
with fair broad ftripeson the infide the leaves, from the middle to 
the edges ; theft vive good feeds, which being fowed yield varieties 
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Crocus luteus five Mefiacus. 
12 yellow Grocasis{o common and well known that it needeth no 
defcription,it beareth many reafonable large round- pointed flow- 
ets {pringing from one root, in fome of adeep yellow colour like 4 
cole of fire, and in others more pale, and there is one whofe flowers 
are of a Brimfton colour; the roots of thefe are bigger than any of the 
former, and increafe tog faft; this is the true Crocus of Mefia, and the 
white 
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