iz6 THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE 



2 The fecond wilde Saffron,in lcaues, rootes, and flowers, is like vnto the precedent 

 ther leffer; and the flower ,let colour. 



3 We haue likewife in our London gardens another forr , like vnto the orrjer wilde 



it perfedfhining yellow colour, feem 

 ch maketh thediifcrence. 



4 There is found among Herbanit | trom the others, faui 



:o their gardens , one fort heereof with purple orv 



mon SafFron,butdeftituteof thofe chiues which yeeld the colour, fmell,or rafte jt hai 



gardens befides thofe before lpeeificd , which I thought needles to 

 entreat of,bicaufe theit vfe is not great. 



All thefe wilde S h do flower in Au- 



notable learned H taem , andpartly by feeing themin 



gardens we haue fetdownc their defcnptions. 



infull and molt curious fearcher of Simple; 



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'the mountainc excepted, which 

 hey be truely faid to be CmifylHeJlm, or wildc 



theminPhificke. 



Of Medavo Saffron. Qoa$.%i. 



lotably as weh 



{hall be 



THcre be lundne lorts or medowe Saffrons differing very notably as well in thec 

 their flowers.asalfo in ftaturc and countrcy, from whence they had 



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in the middle whereof fpringvpr icbignelTeofafmallwal- 



blues whentheyfac 



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