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cominohly fold it thops : the roots are bigger than thofe. of any 
other fort of Crocus, and covered with a hairy skin, eafily difting ui- 
thed from all others, : | 
Crocus Byzantinus argenteus. 
TT filver-coloured Autumn Crocus cometh up in Odober, like the 
Crocus of the Spring ; firft the green leaves appear 5 and then 
the flower, commonly one, and feldom-two ; the three oitter leaves 
are pale blew, or filver-colonr , and the other three more white and 
leffer; with fome yellow chives inthe middle, and a long pointell 
feathered at the top; the root is round and covered with aruflet coat. 
. , Crocus Pyrenieus purpureus. art 
"T% purple mountain Crocus vifeth up like a Colchicum before the 
leaves; commonly with one flower, and fometimes two one : 
after another, ftanding on long foot-ftalks, of a violet purple colour, 
and almoft as large as the biggeft: purple of the Spring, withfome 
yellow chives in the middle, anda long feathered topt pointell; the 
green leaves fucceed the flowers, fometimes appearing before Win- 
ter, but moft ufually not untill che Spring; the root is {mall and 
white like that of the leffer purple, 
Crocus montanus Autumnalis. 
°T He Antum inotntein Crocus fpringeth later chan any of the for- 
_ Mer, about the end of october, with three or four fhort green 
feaves , and after them the flowers, which are of a pale bleak blew 
colour, ftanding on fhort foot-ftalks , {carcely appearing above 
ground at the firft, but afterwards grow a little higher 5 the root is 
great,with a flat bottom, covered witha dark “gray coat, and increa- 
fing very little, | 
_ Thefeare all the Autumn kinds hitherto difcovered; thofeof the 
. Spring are in flower one after,another , and many of the beft roge- 
ther, from the middle of February unto the middle of March; the 
Duke Crocus, and thofe with netted roots being commonly the firft, 
and the Sreateft purple the laft; thofe of Autumn flower from the be- 
Sinning of September to the end of Oéfeber , one after another, in _ 
order as they ftand defcribed, 
All thefe feveral forts of Crocas, both of the Spring and Au- 
tumn, lofe their fibres with their leaves, and may then be taken up 
and keptdry ; thofeof Autumn until Anguft, and of the Spring un- 
ull Odfober; they are hardy and will profper in any place, the Vernal 
increafe exceedingly, if they ftand any time unremoved ,» as the true 
Sé4fron doth, which 1s taken up every third year, the other Autum- 
nal increafe very little. the beft place to plant Spring Crocus, is 
clofe up co a wall or pale, or onthe edges of boarded borders — | 
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