- -blance it hath thereunto, 
geet. .  SREORA 
white fo called borrows that name fromit, in refpéa& of the refem- 
Crocus luteus maximus. 
a He greateft yellow Crocus is like the former, being a variety raifed 
DL fromthe feeds thereof; the flowers are of a deep yellow colour, 
but ag large as the greateft purple; for which it is efteemed; | 
Crocus flavus flviatus. 
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IT He jeton ftiiped Crocus hath {mall bleak yellow Aawers, with 
three ftripes of dull purple on the backs of the three outer leaves, 
the green leaves are-narrower and longer than arly of the former, 
Crocus latens verficolor. 
— 
Tx Cloth of cold Crocus hath thor t whiti(h green leaves ; the flow- 
ersare of a fair yellow colour with three purple ftripes on the 
backs of the outer leaves, all the reft of the flowers are wholly yellow, 
which are not fo plentiful as the former yellow, bearing but two or 
three flowers from oneroot, the roots may be known from any others, 
being covered with a hard netted peeling, or fhell; of this fort theré 
is another, whofe outer leaves are on the backs wholly of a dark 
purple, except the edges which are yellow, and is therefore called the 
Duke Crocus, from the Duke Tulip, and there is one other fort with 
netted roots that hath pale yellow flowers inclining to whire, with 
blewith purple ftripes up the backs of the outer leaves, and part of 
the ftalk next the flower, of the fame colour, 
Thefeare the beft varieties of Spring Crows that hitherto have 
come to our knowledge, there are fome others inferiour to thefe, 
which I have purpofely omitted, and I doubt not but many other va= 
rieties may be raifed from the feeds of thefe, being fowed and nur- 
fed up by induftrious lovers of this delight , and as in the Colchicum, 
there arefome that bring forch cheir fowers in the Spring, fo there 
are fome Grocuses that flower in Autumn, which are. next to be in: 
ferted, sl ia 
Crocus vers. 
“re true Saffron {pringeth up with many long narrow leaves, and 
At after them the flowers, in torm like the former, of a reddifh 
purple colour, in the middle of the flowers there are fome  fmall 
yellow chives ftanding upright, which are unprofitable, as thofe of all 
the other kinds, but befides thefe each flower hath two, three, or 
four greater and longer chives hanging down upon or between the 
leaves, which are of a fiery red colour, and the true blades of Saffron, 
_ the which only being picked from the flowers, prefied between two 
papers, and atter dried upon a Kiln, or otherwife, is thar Saffron 
Shing 4 Q come 
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