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&• Thekfcripthn, 

 any hath many thicke Icaues, broadc, and M 

 chofeoftheEngliftimcdow Saffron, as well in colour, as proportion; and differcth 

 ae, and bringcth foorth no feede at all, contrary to all the reft of the 

 hich maketh the difference, 

 i o The female is like vnto the male in each refpeft, but diffcretb in that,that this plant bringeth 

 foorth white flowcrs,and the other purple. 



* The place. 

 Medowfaffronorc«&£/V«w, growethinMeffinia and in the He Colchis, whereof it tooke his 



gardens are poffefled with the moil part of them. 



The Two firft do grow in England in great abundance, in fat and fertill medowe 

 ford and Bathe, as alfo in the medowes necre to a fmall village in the Weft part of England called 

 Shepton Mallet, in the medowes about Briftow , in Kingftroppc medow necre vi<™ = water mill as 

 you go from Northampton toHolmeby houfevpon the right hand of the way,an 

 " ' ' owne of Northampton , : 



meron, which is not deadly. 



