DIVISION Il. 
Blue Mufcari. 
Hyacinthus flore ceruleo globofo. 
The root is round and fmall. 
The leaves are numerous, and of a pale green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, broad, and ten 
inches high. 
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The flowers ftand drooping in a thick, ‘fhort 
fpike at the top; and they are globular, or nearly 
fo, and blue. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in Au-: 
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C, Bauhine calls it Mufcari vulgare. 
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HIE flower is large, and rifes immediately from the root. It confifts of a long, tubular bafe 
and a broad body, at the top divided into fix fegments, refembling fo many large petals. Therg 
isnocup. The feed-vefiel is divided into three parts, and the leaves appear at a different time from 
the flowers. 
Linneus places this among the hexandria trigynia 3 the threads being fix, and the ftyles three, and 
of equal length with them. 
Meadow-Saffron, 
Colchicum vulgare. 
The root is large and round. 
The leaves are numerous, long, and when fully 
expanded very broad: they naturally appear at a 
different time from the flower ; and if any chance 
to rife with it, they are narrower. : 
The flower rifes out of the ground without any 
flalk, its own tubular bafe ferving to that pur- 
pofe: it is very large, and of a pale, but elegant 
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purple. 
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The fegments are naturally fix; but 
fometimes they are double that number in the 
wild plant; and fometimes, inftead of an uniform 
purple, the flower is ftreaked with white, or is 
white throughout. : 
We have it in meadows in our fouthern coun- 
ties. It flowers in September. 
C. Bauhine calls it Colchicum commune, 
The root is accounted poifonous, 
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HE flower is formed of a fingle petal, tubular, and very long at the bafe, and divided into fix 
fegments at the edge, which feem fo many diftinét petals. The fcabbard ferving as a cup, is 
formed of a fingle piece. 
The feed-veffel is roundifh, but marked with three ridges. | 
This plant, which is fcarce to be diftinguifhed as a genus from the preceding, Linnzeus places in 
a different clafs, the ¢riandria, becaufe the threads in the flower are only three. 
True Saffron. 
Crocus verus autumnalis. 
The root is roundifh, and has many fibres at 
the bottom. ’ 
The leaves are very narrow and gerafiy, of a 
dark green, and are marked with a white rib along 
the middle. 
The flowers are large, and of a fine blue purple, 
with orange-coloured tops to the ftyles. 
It is found in fome parts of the kingdom grow- 
ing in fields under hedges, but probably has been 
owing to roots fcattered from places where it was 
cultivated for fale. 
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It flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Crocus fativus. 
The part ufed in medicine rifes from the top of 
the ftyle, and is in its termination deftined to re- 
ceive the farina from the buttons of the threads, 
for impregnating the feeds. This confifts of 
three orange-coloured, waved, flat filaments, 
which are feparated from the reft of the flower, 
and dried with care. ’ , 
The whole compafs of medicine does not af- 
ford a nobler cordial or fudorifick, It is excel- 
lent alfo in obftruétions of the vifcera, in powde 
or tincture. 
GENUS 
